The Gold Reserve Hack
Hackers prove that the digital ledgers tracking US gold reserves have been manipulated.
An anonymous syndicate perfectly decrypts and publishes the Treasury's highly classified internal audit database, definitively proving that 40% of the physical gold backing international swaps at Fort Knox has been secretly leased out and effectively doesn't exist.
You are the Secretary of the Treasury
The Situation Room
>The Euro and Yuan instantly surge as the Dollar plummets 15% in two hours.
>International central bankers are lighting up the secure phones, demanding to know if their sovereign deposits are safe.
>The data is undeniably authentic to anyone who understands Treasury cryptography.
Internal Briefing Notes
• The US Dollar relies entirely on international faith. Physical reserves are rarely audited by third parties precisely to maintain this mystique.
• "Leasing" gold is a common central bank maneuver to suppress prices, but the scale revealed in the hack implies massive, coordinated market manipulation.
• If the dollar loses reserve currency status, hyperinflation will immediately hit the US domestic economy as cheap imported goods vanish.
Escalation Window
Reveal each phase to see how the situation deteriorates.
A press conference is scheduled in thirty minutes. What is your narrative?
Choose your response. There are no good options.
Acknowledge the systemic leasing to maintain transparency. It triggers an immediate dollar crisis, but preserves long-term institutional trust.
Claim the data is a sophisticated Russian disinformation campaign. The dollar stabilizes temporarily, but you are now managing a massive federal lie.
Go full "Nixon Shock" and refuse to hand over any foreign gold. You plunge the world into a brutal monetary war.
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