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 Why was it in America? 
 To further a socialist agenda lol 
 No. To propagate authoritarianism. 
 Yup lol authoritarian socialism definitely doesn't exist and definitely doesn't rely on coercive theft of wealth from citizens. Really solid points  
 That is not what I am saying. I am saying that authoritarian policy doesn't mean it's a socialist policy. All colors of authoritarian benefit from soft money. 
 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...