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> you should be buying guns to protect yourself from these gang members who are coming after the bitcoin they assert you have which they know you do because they said so.

Pretty much.

Or you could hire some people to do the security for you. Naturally they will want some money.

But now you’re scaring all the people around you because the security answers to you alone, and you’re scared yourself because the people richer than you have more and better security, and people without enough to hire any security keep disappearing — some dead, some just leave because it’s unsafe — and so you all decide to hire them collectively and pay collectively and oh look you’ve invented taxation and a police force and now you don’t need a trustless payment system but you do need an accountant.