Impact of Cyberattacks on Banking and Currency
The cyberattack seems like a very possible scenario because it's a way for the
banks to absolve themselves of any role in a financial crisis.
Um, it's an easy way to, uh, consolidate banks so that only
systemically important ones survive the hack.
Um, and it could also potentially be a very
effective means of
onboarding people onto this new digital currency paradigm.
So for example, let's say this financial, um, cyber, uh, this,
uh, cyberattack on the banks takes place, and they say, "Well, the
existing money in your account has disappeared.
The hackers took it, but we can return to you the exact same
amount of money
you had, but it won't be in the dollars you had
before.
It will be in USDC or this dollar-backed stablecoin,
or it will
be this token."
So you can get an equivalent amount of money back,
right, um, from the money that was stolen from you, but it has to be
this new money. It has to be
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