Shanaka Anslem Perera
Writing about money, tech, AI, science, physics, politics & the messy world we live in. Bitcoin included. Just trying to understand reality a bit better.
- Top in Finance
- #171
- Paid leaderboard
- #159
- Subscribers
- 24K
- Paid subscribers
- 1,000+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 1k
- Followers
- 33K
- Paid plan
- $15/mo
- Recommends
- 10
- Podcast
- Yes
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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
25K on Sep 10, 2026 → 24K on Oct 20, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #171 today · #164 a week ago · #125 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 41 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 33%
- Best rank seen
- #118
- Rank, 7 days
- −7 places
- Rank, 30 days
- −46 places
- Subscribers added
- −1.0K
- Followers added
- −136
- Posts
- 6
- Reactions per post
- 9
- Reactions tracked
- 191
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 23, 2026
since tracking began
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 22 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: The Most Stable Buyer — 15 reactions on Sep 3, 2026.
Recent posts
- Geopolitics and World Politics Monthly, Issue 01 - The World Will Not Wait for Washington
- Chain of Custody PRO - The BTC & Crypto Monthly Newsletter, Issue 01 - The Raise Was Not the Bid
- AI Semiconductor Monthly, Issue 01 - Paid Early, Paid Later
- Who Gets the Next Barrel?
- Shanaka’s Oil & Gas Letter - Issue 01 - Brent’s 2027 Curve Is Above Washington’s Forecast
- The Fed Has Hiked. What Really Changes for $10,000?
- When a Copy Becomes an Ancestor
- The Ordinary Endings
- THREE POWERS, ONE CARGO
- Who Gets the Cash from Treasury Clearing?
- THE LESSER OF COST AND DEBT
- Who Pays When the Machine Acts?
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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: Shanaka Anslem Perera. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Oct 20, 2026.