Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠
@basedlayer • 19,231 subscribers
Founder @BTCPerception. Media fragmentation killed info consumption. So I built the engine turning narrative into engineering.
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Jack Mallers’ appearance on Bloomberg is NO EXAGGERATION one of the sharpest 9-minute Bitcoin segments you’ll find this year. Here’s what stuck with me: – Performance in dollars is a distraction. “The only metric that matters: Bitcoin per share.” – Scarcity isn’t a narrative device. If you want more Bitcoin, you PAY UP. – Altcoins? Tech stocks at best. Bitcoin is gunning for the world’s $400T store of value market. – “I’ll never own another asset outside of Bitcoin.” Not diversification but CONVICTION. – The real use case: You create value, you want to keep it. Bitcoin is the answer. Mallers doesn’t hype. He just points at the inevitable.
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠261,381 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
Yanis Varoufakis has been explaining why Bitcoin can't work since 2009 while people who can't spell "blockchain" got rich buying it. "It's a brilliant answer to a problem we haven't discovered yet" he said in 2009. The problem was him. Smart people paralyzed by theory while stupid people solved poverty by clicking buy. Fifteen years later he's still theorizing and they're still rich. This is peak midwit energy. Reading Nakamoto's paper looking for political theory when it was just code that worked. Overthinking the sociology while underthinking the math. The Marxist professor needed Bitcoin to fit his framework. Bitcoin didn't care about his framework. "Money can't be removed from politics" he says while Bitcoin removes money from politics every ten minutes for fifteen years. "Big Finance usurped crypto" he says while kids in Nigeria trade peer-to-peer without touching a bank. He's analyzing a revolution he can't see because his theories are blocking his vision. Your economist is still explaining why Bitcoin can't work. Your cousin who bought because "number go up" will actually have a chance at retirement. The thing about smart people is that they need permission from their frameworks. Stupid people just need price to move. The cost of thinking exceeded the benefit of thought and Varoufakis thought so deep he completely missed the surface where everything actually happened. We've entered the era where the guy writing papers about why something can't work is losing to the guy who didn't read the paper but bought anyway. I love that. Intelligence is a liability and stupidity is the edge.
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠141,000 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
I love how Casey Neistat Neistat accidentally explained why we're all watching alone together in the clip below. His funnel theory is right but he's missing the fact that we don't just have infinite content we have infinite GOOD content and that's actually worse because now there's no shared reference point for what "good" even means. Tom Hanks wasn't special he was just everywhere. Back then we thought scarcity = quality and that confusion created culture. I remember Casey revolutionizing vlogging by accident back in 2015. Then ten thousand kids copied him but they weren't watching each other they were all creating their own Casey universe in isolation thinking they were part of making crash zooms cool. No, Casey did that. The algorithm solved for engagement but destroyed coherence. We're all watching exactly what we want which means we're watching alone. Even when millions watch the same thing those millions don't know each other exist. I doubt future gens will ever experience _everyone_ in school talking about the same movie because there is no "same movie" anymore. They'll have better content/infinite content perfect-for-them content but they'll have it alone. The bottom of Casey's funnel used to be those "shared culturl moments" where society happened. Now there is no bottom just infinite falling through infinite content forever.
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠71,755 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
The worst thing for Bitcoin adoption is Bitcoiners. We're totally right about the fundamentals but we've built an entire culture around narratives that only work on people exactly like us and we don't realize it. The arguments that orange pilled you worked because you had the time and the bandwidth and the baseline financial literacy and the stable internet connection and the safety to spend months going down rabbit holes. Now take that same pitch and try it on someone working two jobs who's never had a bank account and doesn't know what inflation means beyond prices going up and see how far sound money philosophy gets you. The message that converted the first million users is totally disconnected from what the next billion need to hear and most Bitcoiners can't see that because they only talk to other Bitcoiners
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠33,370 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
The son of the author of The Sovereign Individual is telling the Bitcoin story without ever saying Bitcoin. Jacob Rees-Mogg just went on camera and basically read from the Bitcoin thesis. Former Cabinet member. Old money. Traditional as they come. And he's sitting there explaining why UK regulators are PANICKING about crypto ads while the government prints money to infinity. His diagnosis reads like his father's book came to life. Technology gives people options. Governments scramble to close doors. He's careful with his words, says he's "not advocating crypto coins" at 4:05, but listen to what he's AC TUALLY SAYING. Every fiat currency in history goes to zero. The state's only real tax mechanism is dilution. People with means will find exits. The establishment keeps pulling the same levers. Regulate the ads. Threaten exit taxes. Make it harder to move capital. But here's what they miss: the migration ALREADY STARTED. A quiet, systematic movement toward systems that don't need permission. What kills me is watching this play out exactly how William Rees-Mogg predicted in 1997. His son isn't trying to make the case for Bitcoin. He's just describing reality as he sees it from inside the machine. Sometimes the most effective orange pills come from people who don't even know they're dispensing them. We are living in the future his father wrote about. While regulators write rules for a game that's already changed.
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠41,478 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
my family left argentina because of hyperinflation you'd think that country would be all in on bitcoin but ethereum has the biggest community there if surviving currency collapse doesn't make you a Bitcoiner nothing will the education thesis is dead adoption is going to be fragmented and weird and look nothing like a conference stage keynote get comfortable with that or stay frustrated forever
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠16,462 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Growing up between Norway and Argentina fucked up my relationship with money forever. Every summer, 3 months in Buenos Aires. My cousins planning grocery raids like military operations. My aunt teaching me exchange rates at underground caves before I learned math in school. In Norway, money was boring. Predictable. You could actually plan ahead! In Argentina, money was this living thing that died a little each day. My relatives were just trying to buy food. But they understood inflation better than any economist because they LIVED it. Shopping strategies. Exchange rate arbitrage. Dollar hoarding. And here's what fucked me up: Both countries thought their system was normal. Norwegians couldn't imagine money that expires. Argentines couldn't imagine money that doesn't. That's when I realized: Most people's entire worldview about money comes from whatever random country they were born in.
Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠34,247 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
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