But that's in the vacuum of some other kind of authority. In the case of crypto, there's still authority. It's just algorithmic instead of human.

Or rather, it's given into the hands of those few who understand and control the algorithms.

> As a species, we have developed government control because in general, large-scale anarchy doesn't work well.

Not really. Society has long since been a push and pull between governmental control and anarchy of disobedience rendering some control irrelevant or impractical. And we are much better off for that - governments worst authoritarian instincts are frequently tempered by the general public simply ignoring their pronouncements.

Yes, but North Korean control is also not really desirable.