The original purpose of the government is to be a security company. To protect life, liberty and property rights of individuals.
But via coercion they have proclaimed themselves glorified indisputable rulers.
#Bitcoin is fixing this.
Discussion
According to who? Government has always been about control. “Protection” has only been in the sense of protecting the resources. The herd.
Governments predate history, so we can’t be certain about their origins. Mancur Olson theorized that governments started when roving bandits decided to settle. Before, they had an incentive to take everything they could carry. After, they took portions periodically to maximize long-run plunder. The stationary bandits also had an incentive to protect their victims from roving bandits, so #[2] may be right in that sense, but it’s not as though the earliest governments we know about were minarchies.
