025 - Aleksandar Svetski - Bitcoin for Millennials

Aleksandar is an Author and Entrepreneur who ran numerous ventures in the past 15 years. He wrote and published the best-selling book “UnCommunist Manifesto” with Mark Moss and is now working on a next book called “The Bushido of Bitcoin”. He founded “The Bitcoin Times” in 2018, a limited once-a-year-published magazine covering Bitcoin’s current affairs. Aleksandar is currently building open-source AI tools, focusing on the "Spirit of Satoshi" - the world’s first Bitcoin-centric Language model. We covered various topics including the significance of abundant energy, human ingenuity in Bitcoin and energy solutions, capitalism's natural process, the role of meritocracy in an ideal society, and Aleksandar’s optimistic view of Bitcoin's future. The core idea we explore is how beauty, as the antithesis of communism, represents the pursuit of excellence and the highest virtues. I hope you enjoy this episode. → Follow Aleksandar on https://x.com/SvetskiWrites → Aleksandar’s website: https://svetski.info → Spirit of Satoshi: https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai 🔔 Subscribe to never miss an upcoming episode of Bitcoin for Millennials, → YouTube: ⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@bramk⁠⁠ → Follow Bram on ⁠⁠https://x.com/bramk Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction and Background 01:22 - The Loss of Excellence in Modern Society 03:23 - Discovering Bitcoin 07:18 - Writing 'The Uncommunist Manifesto' 10:50 - The Concept of Dynamic Inequality 16:13 - The Importance of Individual Autonomy 22:08 - Bitcoin as Energy Money 28:29 - Establishing Virtues for a Bitcoin-Enabled Society 34:13 - The Relationship Between Bitcoin and Energy 37:16 - The Energy Edition of The Bitcoin Times 40:05 - Bitcoin Times Essays 41:09 - The Importance of Abundance of Energy 42:25 - The Apathetic Victim Mindset 43:32 - Human Ingenuity and Bitcoin 46:01 - Capitalism as a Natural Process 47:48 - Ideal Society and Meritocracy 51:07 - The Future of Bitcoin 54:21 - Core Belief: Beauty is the Opposite of Communism