I dont imagine how it could happen where people in the know dont take advantage of it, hurting everyone else in the process, before it is made public. Youd almost have to have the US govt seize all gold in the country, keeping track of what they took from whom, and at the same time take a picture of all cyber assets and then create a new dollar system and give that back to the people in an equivalent amount of the new currency. Even that would create a HUGE mess and confusion and likely violent protest. Then if the people who had gold wanted to buy gold back, they would have to do it with their new adjusted currency and would get a lot less, but approximately equal value. With amount of 'fake' money in the system tho, price of gold would probably go to hundreds of thousands / oz and people in other countries that own gold would become much richer than US citizens, really I think its probably not possible. But its a nice pipe dream...
