Svetski Wake Up Podcast

Welcome to Episode 24 of Wake Up, and the 3rd episode of The Bitcoin Times Series. I’ve got Jeff Booth on with me today, the Author of “The Price of Tomorrow”, one of the best books written in 2020. I will apologise in advance to the YouTube listeners. We seem to have had some audio issues during the recording. I managed to get the audio-only file normalised, but the video file was harder to do. Anyway. Jeff and I discussed LOADS on this podcast. It was a unique one because we pulled on threads and got philosophical across a number of dimensions. We discussed his article, of course, which you find as part of The Bitcoin Times Ed 3 (Free download at bitcointimes.news). We discussed what happens to the world in the absence of Bitcoin, and how so-called policy makers are not necessarily evil, but are stuck because the system itself is broken. Furthermore, we looked into how technology is an accelerant and will only serve to precipitate the inevitable deterioration of the status quo. We discuss Capitalism & innovation as the natural state. Mental models for the “base” frame of reference Why conspiracies are convenient, and often not a grand plan, but an inevitable outcome based on poor underlying incentives. Pathways toward and away from WW3 The erosion of personal agency & responsibility How do we fix that? Jeff also suggested a series of Books which you should all have a look at: - Lessons of history - A guide to the good life - Scale – Geoffrey West - Why you are who you are – Mark Leary. - The art of learning - The order of time - Why information grows - Actionable Gamification - Play Bigger You can find Jeff on Twitter @JeffBooth. LinkedIn: JeffDBooth His Book: thepriceoftomorrow.com Personal: jeffreybooth.com _________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

This is a special Episode and a little different to what I usually do. Pete Evans and I met many years ago in Sydney, and crossed paths a number of times since then in the most uncanny of circumstances and stayed in touch over the years. We've recently discovered that we're on the same page on a number of ideas, so I thought it best we jump on a call to talk through some of them. The central idea in this discussion is Personal Responsibility, which is something that's been eroded amongst the populace for many years, but something that people like myself, Pete and those listening to this podcast truly hold dear. There's a number of other topics we touch on also, and of note, I attempt to weave Bitcoin into the discussion toward the end, but considering the scope of the topic of Money & Bitcoin, I'm not sure I did it much justice in the time we had. Nevertheless, Pete & I will connect again in future and I hope we can take you (the audience) on a Journey as we dig down the Bitcoin and Individual Sovereignty rabbit hole. I hope you enjoy this episode, and of course, you can find Pete + his work at: Instagram @ChefPeteEvans www.peteevans.com www.evolvenetwork.tv ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

Erik Cason (also from Unchained Capital) joins me on Episode 22 of the Wake Up Podcast to discuss his incredible piece "Bitcoin and the State of Emergency". This is part of the "Bitcoin Times" series of episodes I'll be doing where I discuss the topics of each article from the Bitcoin times publication with the respective authors. Erik is one of my favourite thinkers in the entire Bitcoin 'space'. He takes a philosophical viewpoint which I align with at a deep level, and he has a way of articulating it that very few in the world can match. In this episode, we look at: Bitcoin as a tool of war Bitcoin as the new Bushido Bitcoiners like Samurai, who will commit Seppuku long before they give up their private keys. Fiat society and Bitcoin as "The renaissance of Meaning" The state and it's emergence How the state of emergency becomes the state of oppression. Why the state wants this control Does the expansion of the state necessitate the “control” How the systematic removal of meaning, purpose and therefore Pride results in envy & emptiness This is an incredible episode. As usual, listen, share & subscribe. Follow Eric Cason on twitter @ErikCason, and check out his work at www.CryptoSovereignty.org Check out Erik's essay at The Bitcoin Times, available Free for PDF download. If you prefer Medium, and would like to support our work there, follow the publication on: https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/bitcoin-and-the-state-of-emergency-742444b9c6bb Also follow The Bitcoin Times on Twitter @TimelessBitcoin ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

Parker Lewis from Unchained Capital joins me on Episode 21 of the Wake Up Podcast. This is part of the "Bitcoin Times" series of episodes I'll be doing where I discuss the topics of each article from the Bitcoin times publication with the respective authors. Parker's piece was one of my favourites because it really gets to the bottom of why Bitcoin fixes the financial derangement syndrome we're all subject to in a fiat world. He makes the (very accurate) argument that whilst Financialization is normal, what we see in the world today is a deranged and exacerbated form in which everyone (particularly in developed nations) is forced to play a game of investing (risk) taking because money loses value. Savings as the cornerstone of civilisation & capitalism has been eroded to the point that you would be a madman to hold any of your wealth in money. "Cash is Trash" as the saying goes. All money now flows to financial products, some of which may be justified, but the majority which are just derivatives of derivatives of derivatives which solve no problem, add no value, produce nothing and merely act as vehicles or sponges to absorb all of the unhinged money creation. This is a brilliant episode, and Parker is one of the best people I know in the space. Follow him on Twitter @ParkerALewis, checkout the work him & the team are doing at www.unchained-capital.com. Check out Parker's essay at The Bitcoin Times, available Free for PDF download. If you prefer Medium, and would like to support our work there, follow the publication on: https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/bitcoin-is-the-great-definancialization-65b4c27a8371 Also follow The Bitcoin Times on Twitter @TimelessBitcoin ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

Episode 20 of the Wake Up Podcast is one of the most mind-blowing yet. Brandon Quittem, the Mycelium master & the always deep & eloquent Gigi join me. There we so many breakthroughs during this conversation. The framing of Bitcoin as a Living Organism is likely the most profound there is. We discussed life as a concept: "That which continues". Life is: - Adaptability - Survivability - Continuation How markets function like a biological system, or biological systems function like markets. Emergence as a concept Life being emergent, complex and bottom up, not top down. Contrary to how religionists think (in general) ? We looked at Bitcoin through the lens of the Sovereign individual thesis: Fragmentation as something that WILL happen, whether or not we do it consciously. We the tied this into the idea of Bitcoin & the great filter (article by Svetski coming soon, and Brandon making mention of it here: https://medium.com/@BrandonQuittem/bitcoin-is-the-antivirus-mushroom-medicine-part-3-4-fd1e6606a3f8 We then took some time to compare Evolution VS utilitarianism, alongside the religionists mis-interpretation of darwinism. - God or nature ? - Creator or creating? As a life form, we established that Bitcoin is absorbing all these ideas and reading a larger, complete, complex system. Like how larger cells absorbed the mitochondria. Life & fragmentation. The story of humanity: Pockets of centralisation in broader networks. Tribes, cities, even countries or continents. This was SUCH a great discussion. Lastly, I want to make a special Shout out to Guy Swann. Check out Brandon’s Mycellium series: https://medium.com/@BrandonQuittem/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism-mycelium-part-1-3-6ec58cdcfaa6? Check out Gigi's Life Series: https://medium.com/@dergigi/proof-of-life-fa28fdc002fe Check out their work: https://www.brandonquittem.com https://dergigi.com Follow the guys on Twitter: @DerGigi @Bquittem ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/c/WakeUpPod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

On Episode 19 of the Wake Up Podcast, I've got Jimmy Song & Jordan Bush joining me. I was initially intending to save this episode for next year, but the response to "Bitcoin Atheists" was so strong, that I had to record sooner. Similar to the last episode, we dug deep. Definitions for: - God - Religion - Prophets - Spirituality - A higher power - Consciousness - A void that binds / the ultimate being - Love & Connectedness But we also explored key concepts & questions such as: Sacrifice and spiral dynamics. The hero & Sacrifice as a virtue Can you be religious and not believe in god? Can you believe in god, but not be religious? Morality - That which is compatible with life. - Evolutionary or divine? Could religion just be a story to help us cope with the reality of the difficulty of life? What else does it offer? Supernatural & the Metaphysical. - Bitcoin - Christianity And much much more. Follow the guys on Twitter: @JimmySong @JMBushWrites And check out their new book, co-authored with some other brilliant bitcoiners, including my friend Robert Breedlove. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P3Z2H48/ ____________________________________ Thanks again for listening. Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify: https://anchor.fm/wakeuppod And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski & https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

Joining me on Episode 18 of the Wake Up Podcast, and the third episode of the Hall of Fame Series are Knut Svanholm and Ben from BTC Sessions. This episode is called "Bitcoin Atheists" and will have to be part 1 of 2 because there was so much to go through and we hit 3hrs already!   We dug into alot of things, including:   Definitions for:  God  Religion  Prophets  Spirituality  A higher power  Consciousness & Connectedness  A void that binds / the ultimate being  Love & Connectedness  Atheism  Truth (although we didn't get into this enough)   Is the bible agnostic, but the 'religionisation' of it & the subsequent institutionalisation is where the problem lies?   Did Religion & the nation state initially help us transcend the version of power in place?   Responsibility / removal of skin in the game is how the system rots.   Were the message of texts like the bible were about taking responsibility in some sense?   Bottom up VS top down transformation   Necessary steps in the evolution of humans?  Spiral Dynamics  General history   Are we living in a Simulation??   Religion / Democracy & Time Preference (but will save this more for part 2).    This was a fantastic call & discussion.  Follow these fine gentlemen on Twitter and each of their other platforms:   Knut: @KnutSvanholm on twitter https://youtu.be/2pDlaOGA2ac https://www.amazon.com/Knut-Svanholm/e/B087WQ4H28/  BTC Sessions: @BTCSessions on twitter. http://btcsessions.ca/​ https://anchor.fm/btcsessions​    ____________________________________   Thanks again for listening.  Subscribe on YouTube, Anchor, Spotify And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski and https://svetski.medium.com More coming soon!

This is Episode TWO of the "Hall of Fame Series" at Wake Up, and Episode 17 overall. "Join the revolution and get rich along the way" The hall of fame series are Long Form discussions with special guests, every week or two where we dig deep into different themes, topics & ideas. In this episode, American HODL and Stoney Bitson join me to discuss America, the American Dream and Bitcoiners as the modern American Revolutionaries. As you can imagine, this episode contains comedy, profanity and a whole lot of REAL talk. Some of the things we cover: Who ever thought you could Join the revolution and get filthy fucking rich Along the way? And the best part? --> We can’t lose. We have gravity on our side. We’ve got reality. Physics. Good luck trying to stop that with a digital Ponzi scheme. The cost of being contrarian VS The cost of being the sheep. Coming back to the island VS America Libertarians were neutered, Ideas were their tool and now Bitcoin has arrived. The intelligent interrogate everything. War has evolved Natural wealth redistribution through capitalism. How capitalism reduces uncertainty Reputation is important because when it comes time to do deals later. Clubs have always existed. Bitcoiners have become like Bitcoin Everything that gets thrown at us makes us stronger Follow the guys on Twitter @StoneyBitson and @HODLAMERICAN615 Subscribe to the channel, and check it out on:  anchor.fm/wakeuppod https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMnW6a-bboF2XYMRLZuIdzA And follow me on Twitter @AleksSvetski, and on Medium: Svetski.medium.com  More coming soon!

This is Episode ONE of the "Hall of Fame Series" at Wake Up, and Episode 16 overall. These are going to be a series of Long Form discussions with special guests, every week or two where we dig deep into different themes, topics & ideas. On Episode one I have the legendary Robert Breedlove & Gigi with me, and get Cosmic AF digging into bitcoin from multiple viewpoints. Physics Metaphysics First principles Natural Law Duality Singularity  We dig into what the future might look like, whether or not we can solve for tyranny, What it means to have a better quality of problem and much more. Capped off with a treasure trove of resources for you to dig into further. Books, and the minds of the giants who’s shoulders we now stand on. Incredible stuff. This is no shit, one of the best pods you’ll listen to this decade. Your mind will join bitcoin in the Fukn stratosphere while listening. Peep. Subscribe. Share.  Also on YouTube. Follow everyone on Twitter at:   @Breedlove22 @DerGigi @AleksSvetski

In this video we see the dangers of group identity & the cancer that is collectivism. A group of people decide it’s perfectly ok to behave like Nazi’s, because they identify as a self-proclaimed righteous group of protestors (ie; BLM), and have placards that read “fuck off Nazi’s”. The greatest feat of the Nazi’s, Communists and any other collectivist & authoritarian group is to make YOU think you’re the villain, and to use double-speak like this to give themselves immunity from their actions. These morons wouldn’t even know what Nazi stands for, nor that fascist stems from exactly the societal model they adhere to (ie; communism as a branch of socialism / collectivism). This is exactly the kind of derangement syndrome that people from Peterson to Rand to Rothbard and many before have warned us about. Group identity politics is an application of collectivist ideology and so long as we do not hold the individual as the central & most important component of society, we will devolve into such madness. The collectivist crowd (mob) is able to both make itself immune from bad behaviour because it has a self-endowed moral or ethical high-ground, and at the same time, is able to target individuals of a “different group” that, irrespective of WHO the individual is, are brandished as “evil” or whatever the mob want to label them as. It’s the oldest trick in the game, and people keep falling for it. The day we reintroduce the individual as the centre-piece, and begin to reclaim personal agency and responsibility, is the day we begin to make things better. No group is better than any individual. The individual is the atomic unit and it all starts there. I hope this video serves as a warning.