So if I remember correctly, all of the debt was wiped, but people also got an equal distribution of E-Coin airdropped into their accounts. I’d be interested to hear an economist’s educated take on that.
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ECoin is effectively a CBDC stablecoin pegged to the dollar, but it doesn't come into play until a while after the initial attack.
Lot of time between where people started using Bitcoin instead of fiat, Evil Corp used anti-Bitcoin scaremongering to push ECoin on people and politicians, also gave people discounts if they paid in ECoin etc.
You may be thinking of the final season where they hack the bank account of the Deus Group then redistributed all the money to everyone as ECoin.