Aleksandar Svetski built Amber, one of the very first apps for stacking Bitcoin automatically, co-wrote The Uncommunist Manifesto with Mark Moss, spent two years writing The Bushido of Bitcoin, and now runs Satlantis. He is one of the most outspoken thinkers in Bitcoin, and he doesn't hold back in this one.
In this episode we go deep on how an entrepreneur who failed on Shark Tank stumbled into becoming one of Bitcoin's best known writers, why he wishes he had gone anon from day one, the gold analogy that explains dollar cost averaging better than any chart, why he has never once made money trading, how regulators turned his Bitcoin app into a compliance factory, the core disagreement with Marx behind The Uncommunist Manifesto, why fairness and equality can never exist together, how Bitcoin makes communism impossible, the difference between virtue and morality, why Bitcoin is an amplifier and not a magic pill, why you can't teach someone a low time preference, what young people should actually do about housing and jobs, why he thinks Nostr is dead and the next social network is real life, and why he refuses to read anything except fiction.
Blunt, funny and completely unfiltered.
This is the episode that will make you rethink how you spend your time, your money and your attention.
FOLLOW SVETSKI
Substack: https://remnantchronicles.substack.comAll links: https://linktr.ee/SvetskiSatlantis: https://satlantis.ioNostr: https://primal.net/svetski
BOOKS MENTIONED
The Bushido of Bitcoin - Aleksandar Svetski: https://bushidoofbitcoin.comThe Uncommunist Manifesto - Aleksandar Svetski and Mark Moss: https://www.uncommunist.comThe Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Shogun - James Clavell
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard
Anything by Wilbur Smith
ORANGE PILL ORDER
Website: https://orangepillorder.comX: https://x.com/OrangePillOrderListen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Fountain
Stack Sats. Stack Knowledge. Stack Freedom.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:23 From entrepreneur to Bitcoin writer
04:18 Has he always been this blunt
04:44 Posting controversial opinions online and why you should go anon
06:50 Amber and dollar cost averaging explained
11:55 Leaving Amber and the regulators
14:26 The Uncommunist Manifesto
18:43 How Bitcoin makes communism impossible
21:55 The Bushido of Bitcoin
23:15 Virtue vs morality
28:18 Which virtue Bitcoiners are worst at
29:41 Why the book ends with a story
31:58 Does sound money make sound people
35:12 Advice for young people who feel hopeless about the future
40:48 Satlantis and why Nostr is dead
43:59 The books every young person should read
45:45 The last question
48:06 Where to find Svetski