Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠
@basedlayer
Founder @BTCPerception | Ex-@UMG → backed torrents before streaming was strategy. Now tracing media & market shifts | VP Marcom @Blockstream
In Argentina, I watched a currency die in real time. Not metaphorically. LITERALLY. Prices changing in 24 hours. When westerners ask “why Bitcoin?” I think about the grocery stores with three different price tags in one week. You don’t get it until you live it.
Most people don’t need faster payments. They need a reason to save. Every cycle, there’s pressure to make Bitcoin “useful.” Like unless you’re buying coffee with it, it’s not real adoption. But the real unlock isn’t spending. It’s saving. When you’ve lived through…
I've interviewed 100s of people. The ones who hide their limitations in interviews become your biggest problems in month 3. This kid just did you a favor and showed you exactly who they are. The old interview theater where everyone pretends they're perfect for 45 mins is dead.
👋 I am looking for someone who is on their journey into Bitcoin but not really sure yet. Someone who doesn’t fully trust their conviction yet, that has questions and ideas they want to discuss to better understand Bitcoin. If that is you, and you’re up for recording a podcast…
I grew up splitting my time between Buenos Aires and Oslo. One place teaches you currencies can die. The other teaches you they can suffocate you slowly. $300k salaries in Norway. $12 beers. 2% savings rates. The entire country is a wealth extraction machine disguised as…
The chart shows Asia eating the West in devs post-2017. What it doesn’t show: – How much was vaporware – Who stayed after the crash – What actually got built 2017 was the ICO casino. Degeneracy brings volume. Quantity ≠ quality.
Crypto has decentralized to Asia.
Roger Ver selling Bitcoin is the most bullish signal possible The old guard always sells the moment they realize they lost Ver represents Bitcoin's activist phase We're entering the institutional phase The revolutionaries always sell to the suits
Roger Ver is selling right in time for Saylor to scoop it all up with his STRC proceeds.
understanding bitcoin completely ruins your ability to take most news seriously 😂
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is worth $1.7 trillion. Their citizens get less than 2% on savings accounts. The fund made 13% last year. Citizens LOST MONEY to inflation. Whats going on here? This is the paradox: The state is the world’s best investor. The citizens are…
These types of questions reminds me of 2008, when I sat in Universal's boardroom analyzing streaming data. iTunes had already proven digital worked. But executives were still fighting the future. "Streaming will cannibalize sales," they said. "Subscription models devalue…
Why doesn't the company you work for own any Bitcoin on their balance sheet? Why doesn't it accept Bitcoin for payments? Why doesn't it offer it as a payroll benefit? You should champion it. You should make it happen. The worst they can do is fire you (they wont). Start now. GM
I’ve been living and working in 11 cities and 6 countries since 2023. Nothing has radicalized me more.
A take: The more you travel, the less politically extreme you become.
I love one of the biggest Bitcoin adoption drivers: Currency collapse FOMO. No philosophy. No technology. Just rich people in Lagos, Buenos Aires, and Beirut googling "how to protect wealth" at 3am 😂 Suffering drives adoption faster than education ever could.
Fiat money has a UX problem it's too good at what it's designed for You should be spending it You should NOT be saving it Bitcoin has the opposite problem The winning system won't be either/or It'll be both, for different jobs