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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#725: Why Bitcoin Adoption Is Fragmented with Fernando Nikolic

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8804 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Marty sits down with Fernando Nikolic to discuss how Bitcoin can learn from the music industry's mistakes, the communications failures that have held back adoption, and how AI tools and data curation are reshaping the information landscape for the next wave of Bitcoiners.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins.

0:25.3

In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.9

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

Fourth turning vibes.

0:38.3

I think that's an apt description of the times we find ourselves in right now.

0:44.9

Yeah, it is.

0:45.5

And I think the biggest difference between what's happening now compared to previous times that you can compare with is how

0:57.7

information is being spread and consumed.

1:00.5

And because back in a day, right?

1:03.5

Like, this is something that I've been thinking about a lot is a lot of the reasons why these

1:08.8

like old institutions actually had such a long run before the internet is because they were leveraging information in symmetry, right?

1:18.6

You can go all the way back to the church.

1:22.6

And they had like the, they had the only source of truth, right?

1:26.6

Like they were saying, I don't know, we know what God wants.

1:30.8

And if you want access to God, you got to go through us.

1:33.3

Right.

1:33.6

And then governments had the same thing.

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