What "they" are thinking is that we need a dollar replacement.

And people don't want straight digital money, and do not trust the money printers, so what is left is a gold backed currency, so lets get that implemented before we have to do it in freefall.

But what is the Fed going to do? Probably start a currency/psy-op war. Which they will fail, because the trust in the Fed will be somewhere between burn them at the stake and nuke them from orbit.

Of course T.H.E.Y. will take whatever comes and weasel their way into controlling it.

I wish we could all just start using bitcoin.