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

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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

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Archie is the man behind Bitcoin Archive, one of the biggest Bitcoin news accounts in the world with over 1.8 million followers. He built it from nothing during COVID lockdown, ran it anonymously for years, and turned down more crypto shill money than most people will ever see. This is his first sit down with the Orange Pill Order and he does not hold back.

In this episode we go deep on what Archie learned from Dr Jack Kruse about burnout, sunlight and grounding, the month in El Salvador that reset him, why city living is always a compromise, why Thomas skipped uni for the countryside, the guests who genuinely surprised him, his real Bitcoin story from posting on a sports forum in 2011 to going all in during COVID, why Adam Back and most of the cypherpunks missed Bitcoin entirely, why almost everyone waits years before buying, the first day of Bitcoin Archive and the 150 followers that started it all, why so much orange pilling is just ego in disguise, what a day actually looks like running an account that size, the crypto shill offers he turns down every single day and why the cultural code does not enforce itself, how he filters real news from noise, why he stayed anonymous and what finally made him dox himself, whether young creators should show their face, the life of a headline on Bitcoin Twitter and who is really just copying and pasting, the clipping industry and the Peter Thiel example nobody is talking about, when decentralization is a virtue and when it absolutely is not, the hardest part of interviewing that nobody warns you about, exactly what he would do if he were starting a show from zero today, Willy Woo and the death of the four year cycle, his own call on where the bottom is, and whether Bitcoin treasury companies are good for Bitcoin or a risk hiding in plain sight.

Somewhere in the middle of this one, Archie stops the interview to tell Thomas something about the accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that most young creators never get told.

If you are building anything online right now, that part alone is worth the two hours.

FOLLOW ARCHIE

X: @BTC_Archive

Bitcoin Archive newsletter and podcast: add link

FOLLOW ORANGE PILL ORDER

Website: orangepillorder.com

X: @OrangePillOrder

Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Fountain

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Dr Jack Kruse

Martti Malmi

Adam Back

Jeff Booth

Lyn Alden

Jesse Shrader, Amboss

Dylan LeClair

Joe Consorti

Willy Woo

Stephen Bartlett, Diary of a CEO

Stack Sats. Stack Knowledge. Stack Freedom.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro - Archie from Bitcoin Archive joins the show

00:59 - Dr Jack Kruse, burnout and the El Salvador reset

07:53 - City living vs countryside - the London compromise

11:24 - Why Thomas skipped uni

12:57 - The guests who surprised Archie the most

18:17 - From a 2011 forum post to going all in during COVID

26:42 - Why almost everyone waits years before buying

28:55 - Day one of Bitcoin Archive - 150 followers and nothing else to do

34:06 - Building Bitcoin media for a younger generation

35:08 - Ego, gatekeeping and why orange pilling usually fails

41:36 - A day in the life running a 1.8 million follower account

48:08 - The shill money he turns down and why the cultural code is a myth

49:45 - How Archie filters real news from noise

55:02 - Why he stayed anonymous for years

1:00:02 - What finally made him dox himself

1:01:08 - Anonymous or show your face - advice for young creators

1:07:22 - The life of a headline on Bitcoin Twitter

1:12:58 - Archie's message to Thomas - they have just been around longer

1:16:24 - Media literacy, clipping and the Peter Thiel example

1:25:59 - When decentralization is a virtue and when it is not

1:32:48 - Why he started the podcast

1:35:12 - The hardest part of interviewing nobody warns you about

1:42:36 - What he would do starting a show from zero today

1:48:19 - Willy Woo, the four year cycle and Archie's price call

1:55:34 - Bitcoin treasury companies, preferreds and equities

2:01:52 - Outro