Why not both methods?
One is an economic punishment
The other is coercion.
They usually go hand in hand in an occupation government.
I foresee a lot of electrical outtages so AI has no power no internet no card processors working. Hey thats the 4th electrical line cut this month next to the wallmart. How about jamming satallite dish transmissions since the dishes are on the store roofs and the computer servers all in rooms in the store. A computer virus and all transactions lost for the day or week since unlike money it's not physically safe in a room immune to digital worms. Hell people just sabotage your own phone if your fighting and give the store the virus in the transaction or through the wifi itself. Hell make it so the store gives everyone a 90% refund that day or doesn't even charge it since bitcoin takes times to calculate and a lot of energy. Hell knock out a bitcoin validating center or their power and the system grinds to a halt and likely corrupts the systems and a backup only backs up the OS but if they go down over and over they won't have a clean backup besides the one they have for one date so no profits after that date and the corruption is even in the data of sales and bitcoin numbers so in theory you could wipe out all debts that occured during a period with just killing the serves over and over or just a huge power surge or surges so breakers trip and finally the generator runs out of fuel and hard shutdown occurred over and over.
Or any actor, with state level skills, such as a foreign nation, could just take down the credit card data centers that process and house the ebt systems for america.
Instant made-to-order mass starvation.
The thing is this would be a virus that looks for a database that has bitcoin signatures or card numbers so the welfare would be done by the government itself and if that happened with EBT the person at the state level would be having stores just take down the numbers with a promise the state will cover it later or they'd likely get shot or fired for the hate they would generate to the governor senators or reps they'd all vote to have the EBT just work on a promise and vote that into law till the system was back up again.
All credit and electronic transactions are mirrored, they have been aware of this risk since the 60's, fyi...
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