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Michael Saylor has publicly positioned Bitcoin as the base layer of what he is calling a new digital capital stack, according to a report from Cryptonews.net.
The framing is a deliberate architectural metaphor — casting $BTC not as a standalone store of value but as the foundational infrastructure on which a broader financial system would be constructed.
What 'Base Layer' Actually Means In technology, a base layer is the underlying protocol everything else depends on — TCP/IP beneath the internet is the standard example.
Applying that term to Bitcoin is a claim that other financial instruments and applications would eventually settle on or derive legitimacy from $BTC.
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