or how about this. being inside the system they realised that what they signed up for was not why they signed up and in 'snowdon' like approach banded together to build an anti-establishment money system to bring global balance and a bigger requirement to maintain the NSA budget for technology by introducing a platform or digital ledger that could work with existing inventions and technologies.

if you can't predict future technology, put together a financial one with a hashing algorithm you can predict partly the future off -- it just seems like we are running through someones black book of a world structure they are taking pages out of the matrix arcitects playbook.