re: #311 Walter L. Newton

[Jack] learns the concepts of commerce and money from Eliza and his travels and adventures and in the third book plans to disrupt the known order of things by trying to destroy the money supply.

Jack is trying to destroy Britain’s “new” money at the behest of the “old” land based wealth/aristocratic order, aka Louis XIV, because Louis is blackmailing him. I don’t know how Stephenson could be much clearer here.