[foobarqux]

States are powerful. You are mistaken if you think bitcoin can somehow materially evade that power, you have to interact with the real world some time.

Putting aside the increasingly clear fact that network-attached computers won't be secure from state-actors for the foreseeable future --- and bitcoin transactions always have to hit the network --- states can effectively control bitcoin being spent or bitcoin cash-outs being transferred in country as well as any currency.

Presently the risk of losing or having stolen your bitcoin is far higher than the same for gold or conventional stores of value.