I'm not saying that this is your opinion, but how can there be money without a state to protect it? The people protecting the value of money would need to be fe

I'm not saying that this is your opinion, but how can there be money without a state to protect it? The people protecting the value of money would need to be fed and given resources somehow. Meaning that without the US taxpayer paying money to the US government, the US dollar would be absolutely worthless, since there's no army, police and so forth, there to protect it, right? Bitcoin and the like might be a possible exception of course.