Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠

Founder @BTCPerception.

Media fragmentation killed info consumption. So I built the engine turning narrative into engineering.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

The morning Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay I was in a strategy meeting at Universal Music in Norway.

Everyone celebrated because the pirate ship was sinking.

"The adults had won" (lol)

Three days later the site was back online.

Different servers and different jurisdiction.

I looked around the office at my colleagues still planning next quarter's CD releases and realized something.

I was working for people who thought they'd won a war that hadn't even started yet.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@theandreboso I just finished my first ever launch video and used Remotion and FFMPEG + yapping until finished.

It's no different than making a landing page, just share a bunch of examples and explain what you need and you'll get there.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@Bulldozer0 I agree

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

- Corporate BTC buying fell from $500M/day to $20M/day.

- SpaceX went public holding 18,712 BTC.

- MicroStrategy is the only serious buyer left.

That is literally the entire corporate Bitcoin story right now.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@adam3us @LukeDashjr That's it. That's the tweet.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@btcitadad true

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@btc_21_million I specifically wrote serious buyer

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@coldhardsats Very sorry to hear that. Sending love and prayers to you both.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

Thinking that the digital economy has split into three clean layers:

- AI does the cognitive labor and writes the code
- Stablecoins settle daily transactions
- Bitcoin secures the treasury reserve

Zero room left for expensive, over-engineered vaporware crypto tokens designed to fund VC marketing budgets.

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity.

I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did.

That changed my life.

It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world.

It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me.

The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old.

They say it is “for safety”.

But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience.

The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape.

It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them.

It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling.

A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child.

Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it.

First they ask if you are old enough.

Then they ask who you are.

Then the anonymous internet is gone.

The excuse is children.

The prize is obedience.

Fight back, Britain.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

An incredible amount of people seem to literally think that Elon Musk just casually opens his bank app and sees a trillion dollars on his screen 😂

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

"I don't think it is, mate."

That is the default response from most British folks I've gotten whenever I mention that the country is collapsing.

The modern UK is an administrative machine designed to manage the decline and they built their entire moral authority on teaching Brits to feel guilty for the greatest empire in history.

Stop apologizing.

[allen farrington @allenf32]

https://t.co/WPZJUGfkn6

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@JoeConsorti Well deserved man

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

I’m absolutely blown away by the amount of fully grown people who feel entitled to someone else’s property.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

It's Sunday June 12th, 2016 and the world is mourning the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Trump, who recently clinched the Republican Party nomination, posts on Twitter that Obama should leave office over the shooting.

You walk to a nearby cafe thinking about the possible implications of Move 37 (played a few months prior) and how neat the SpaceX reusable rockets are.

On the way, a mysterious gentleman pulls a newspaper out of his cloak and hands it to you. It's dated June 12th, 2026.

Top Headlines:
- Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX IPO's
- Department of War Publishes Third Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files
- Citing Safety Concerns, Trump Administration Places Anthropic's New 10T Parameter AI Models Under Export Control

Huh? Still holding the newspaper, you look up... but the mysterious gentleman has already vanished. You look down... the headlines are also gone. Sipping your coffee, you think to yourself "Wow, these art students sure are are getting stranger and strfr!"

Before heading home, you find yourself checking the price of BTC... honestly, $600 per BTC seems pretty high. Maybe it's time to sell??

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

The Financial Times when financials happens

[Financial Times @FT]

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain https://t.co/ArBReYYGsv

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

So easy to get caught up in mixing Bitcoin with geopolitical headlines when they seem to always trigger short term market noise.

But if you treat Bitcoin as a hedge against a weekly news cycle then you ultimately miss the actual scale of the asset.

What matters is that it settles sovereign wealth outside the control of central banks, regardless of who is in the White House.

Best you can do is ignore the daily press briefings and focus on the only trend that matters which is the long-term adoption metrics.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

Cool to see Swan launching a service to let investors convert their paper Bitcoin directly into onchain coins.

Weird that more companies haven't launched this.

IMO this is the logical next step in institutional adoption because the ETF will always be just a temporary onboarding wrapper for traditional capital.

Institutional investors are not noobs.

They know that holding a paper share in a BlackRock fund is not the same as owning the underlying asset.

[Cory 🦢 Real Bitcoin @ Swan.com @CorySwan]

Swan RBX is live! Get out of $GBTC and into real on-chain Bitcoin
https://t.co/SGCfxqIkOH

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

Synthetic SpaceX shares on Hyperliquid fell 27% percent while the actual Wall Street roadshow is four times oversubscribed.

Do with that information what you will.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

@stackhodler Proprietary data that connects to these tools = only moat left

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

Think about how bank after back is entering crypto custody.

And think about the years they spent warning retail that holding digital assets was too dangerous for the public.

Now they want to charge a custody fee to hold the keys for you.

Think about that.