Can now understand your hate of the state a little better. Eastern Europe under Communism sounds like a nightmare. In contrast my childhood in New Zealand where there was a reasonably benign government gave me a much less hostile attitude toward the state. The state in my youth (born early 1960s) was a provider of security and builder of infrastructure and did not spy on citizens much less imprison them or kill them (there are a few exceptions to this though even in NZ) so the vast majority of citizens did not feel fear of the state but rather saw it as supportive and mostly positive. Then came the 1980s and NZ followed Thatcherism and Reagan and monetarist and neoliberal ideology and that model of the benign 'helping hand' state of my childhood changed to a state increasingly at the service of big corporations and foreign banks. That is where my questioning began and that is where I started to question the powers that be. Always fascinated with economics as a teenager and history later on I began to learn at the role banks and corporations play in the neoliberal nation state and what was observed was banks had come to hold ununhealthy amount of power over the economy- and the politicians. Here in New Zealand the four biggest banks are majority owned by US shareholders although they are nominally known as Australian banks. They control over 80% of all banking and extract a higher ratio of NZs GDP than in any other OECD country. What I saw was the benign mixed economy of the post war era being supplanted by neolioberal governments and corporations that were not benign and were not even NZ based. So when Bitcoin arrived on my horizon in 2017 I quickly saw it as a powerful idea and potential alternative to the fiat hegemony we had come to increasingly live under at least since 1971, and probably well before. New Zealand has always been a monetary and military tribute state to the global hegemony of Britain and then the US. I have materially benefited from living on the right side of imperialism and therefore acknowledge the power and influence nation states result in upon peoples lives. While Bitcoin potentially frees us to some extent from that nation state power I do not see nation states ending as it is in the nature of humans to form communities and those communities in their strongest form in a binding strategic/military and economic sense are nation states. And as for governments- we are all the government- even in say Eastern Europe under Communism a very harsh government was imposed, but it succeeded in co-opting enough collaborators to maintain its hold...and was in turn only a tributary to the USSR- it was the USSRs surrender to the west (or the wests victory over it) that ended tyranny in East Germany/Eastern Europe. I do not see how even Bitcoin can completely liberate us from the practical reality of nation states- it can only, perhaps, lessen their worst excesses. Am not convinced that opting out and living outside of the state can deliver a better result than being involved in it and working for positive change...as fucking boring and tame as that might sound...because we are all the government!