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 People always talk about this non-authoritarian socialism... care to share an example?

The question was will socialism exist on a Bitcoin standard. You answered yes. 

If you're talking about utopian bottom-up socialism, ok then maybe. But that's also never existed at any meaningful scale. 

Top-down socialism - aka authoritarian socialism - necessarily requires coercive private property theft by the state. Bitcoin makes that untenable.  
 Norway? Sweden? 
 Relies on theft. Relies on theft.  
 You say that. To a country with incredibly high metrics and happiness rankings...

Ok. 
 That wasn't the question lol. Bitcoin makes theft through inflation a non-option. I'm saying that these systems, regardless of how well or not they work, will not be able to inflate their currencies and will become much less tenable  
 And yes, I suppose that as an anarchist I so mean bottom up socialism.
In a Bitcoin standard that makes life fair, I expect plenty will want to chip in for things that benefit others over themselves. 
 It's incredible to me that so many people conflate philanthropy and socialism...