Isn’t the answer here that people in good countries would still voluntarily pay the taxes they are in charge of paying, and taxes imposed on businesses would still get paid.

The idea of separating state and money isn’t that the state is in all cases defunded, just that the state can no longer direct monetary policy, and can no longer control citizen balances directly.

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That only works if citizens are able to resist. Jurisdictional arbitrage is not a solution.

Pretty sure that works!

Not a solution in what context? If someone decides to get up and leave their unfriendly state well, they just found a solution in their context and voted to defund that state. If enough people decide to do that, well what power is the state left with? I think in some regard we are saying the same thing here. The power is with the people, and bitcoin enables choice.

Seems like you are leaning towards the total authoritarian dystopia outcome where the a state or group of states hunts down and crushes every state, and it’s people that doesn’t align. Such an effort on a global scale is quite risky to carry out in many ways.

Just in the context of securing Bitcoin