.... till recently governments had monopoly on money issuance since they controlled means of communication via which value can be transferred. As I also said, private money in the form of cash (i.e. which relies only on hand-to-hand transactions) is devastatingly useless. And with the Internet arising from obscure military labs, the state lost its monopoly on global means of communication and thus lost its monopoly on money (obviously, they couldn't foresee that). Money, conceptually, is all about transferring value, and in today's world transferring value means transferring it instantly and to every corner of the world. Anything which aims to become money but doesn't offer the possibility of such transfers is set to fail miserably
Did the state take over Western Union?
It is simply absurd to assert that the state no longer has a monopoly on money. If we are not using dollars or euro, are we using clam shells to buy stuff?
Western Union doesn't print their own money
The same pertains to PayPal and other payment processing companies whatever their name might be. Honestly, somehow I thought you were smarter than that. Anyway, the question is not about clam shells, the question is about Bitcoin. And yes, Bitcoin did break the government monopoly on issuing money big time, and it happened precisely because the government lost their monopoly on communications. A few private companies tried to do essentially the same in the past with their money tokens but they were small fish and didn't end up well in the end. I remember about some Canadian company that was dismissed by the government for doing something which they hadn't the right to do (i.e. issue money). Bitcoin is global, and as such it is effectively beyond government control of any particular country. A government can forbid the circulation of bitcoins in the area, but they lack the power to forbid Bitcoin as such just like they lack the power to forbid, say, gravity