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Last Notes npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Back home in the Netherlands since Friday! 🇳🇱 It was an emotional week in Aruba saying goodbye to my uncle, but being back on my island re-grounding with family was so deeply needed. 💙 One last observation on the payment front: alongside Sentoo, I also saw Pay.aw out there—another QR payment option. Sentoo itself is actually pretty slick since it's an instant bank transfer, but merchants still pay processing fees. The biggest hurdle on the island right now isn't consumer adoption—it's government perception. Local regulators and authorities still treat Bitcoin and crypto as high-risk, making adoption an uphill climb. Lightning (and ecash) remains light-years ahead: open, instant, global, and drastically cheaper for merchants. The local appetite for digital payments is already there—now it's just a matter of shifting mindsets and replacing the legacy banking rails! ⚡️🇦🇼 cc: @BitcoinAruba #Aruba #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #Payments #CircularEconomy https://blossom.primal.net/eb6cc2f0b15829ee483c0dd16e1e1a5d200b123f7e89ed769650f93ded344be0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/10e079d9b45749ecbc518ed655392730c93013d6b8da4f549f9b7f542512ead6.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/11c6b5a966930d368ae9a07cd327179d824d8babb70836902461b9a146c1465a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/1bc2cf563a8bc17cd76d31f35644a927136113ed1d150b751ab51e826e32c476.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/de9ae20a53ec56b4c3eda838461ef353c0e6fba25c864b630cfaa3f760b102fc.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/fb8aad3a8cc9d1445fd9b6ee0199a26cf79ad5476c7a7073bc153152747d468f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/d460630c80f28f14a3957aead9b1f6706bf0b459de486cea94b6097ff0476897.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/b9a6c6ffe4b810f95ef16ce0424756d17ebca211558b353911c6a528169a05e9.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Pro tip for building a daily passive #Bitcoin yield loop: ⚡️ 1️⃣ Start Free or Go Pro on @nprofile…fuya: Free tier: 21 sats/day (3 missions × 7 sats) with $0 investment. Pro tier: Boosts daily missions to 21 sats each + unlocks 2 bonus missions (like #SatsCipher). 2️⃣ Reinvest: Convert your earned sats into USDB ($1 USDB = $1 USD). 3️⃣ Compound: Hold USDB in your wallet (Xverse Wallet or @nprofile…uxkg) to earn daily BTC yield (starts at just 10 USDB min!). Zero upfront capital needed to kickstart the engine, but compounding those earnings takes it to the next level! 🍊💊 #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #USDB #SatsStacking #Nostr npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 💯 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Arrived in Aruba yesterday after my uncle passed away. Good to be back 'home' with family. 💙 Hit the barber today and ran into an old colleague from my Aruban police force days! When it came time to pay, it was cash or a local payment method called Sentoo. From a user perspective, Sentoo was flawless—scan a QR code, hit a payment link, open the local bank app, and approve. Seamless. But looking at it through a technical and merchant cost lens, Lightning and @nprofile…cmar still blow it out of the water. ⚡️🥜 Numo Pay would have been an absolute game-changer for this merchant—instant, zero-fee tap-to-pay offline via ecash, backing up directly to @nprofile…5kvh. The island is already comfortable with QR-based instant payments... now we just need to help local shops swap out the legacy banking middleman for sovereign rails! 🇦🇼 cc: @nprofile…03tj #Aruba #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #Cashu #BTCPayServer #Payments npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Check out this insight from Simon Academy: "Building open learning systems with Nostr identity" https://simon.academy/articles/building-open-learning-systems-nostr.html npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Just got back from a fantastic holiday in beautiful Gran Canaria! Paid for everything using my @nprofile…vmya debit card, which means indirectly every coffee, meal, and tap was powered by Bitcoin. ⚡️🍊 Back at it today: heading into Amsterdam for a 12 PM lunch meeting with a fellow Bitcoiner & @nprofile…y308 member, while putting the final touches on the new @nprofile…57ks website and portal. We’re getting ready to launch with 3 brand-new, short FREE microlearning courses: 1️⃣ Bitcoin for Business 2️⃣ Nostr for Business 3️⃣ Zapvertising Really excited about expanding our scope beyond just compliance & risk into actionable business strategy—all laser-focused on accelerating the Bitcoin circular economy! Stay tuned. 🚀 #Bitcoin #CircularEconomy #Nostr #Amsterdam https://blossom.primal.net/0b5f236c58fa8b5939c02db05c103d90feb6921731df7eae67102da828e54bb8.png https://blossom.primal.net/5a3ea1be4158fac49614c54df92570d8e539b22d61fb8af00bd0cbf1de1ff89e.png https://blossom.primal.net/74b9d7a57c407bd3b797b13e5d3609dbd746950c412428b722f3e2e5c9355b47.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon First time vibe coding from the hotel this morning before hitting the park—pretty damn excited! 🌴🧙♂️ Building a Nostr-native onboarding MVP for @nprofile…57ks. Not fully wrapped up yet, but aiming to launch later today. Check the progress below! 👇 https://blossom.primal.net/fa1dece3aef98e8276ead74b3023ae48db98611783e757c5d035248469652227.png https://blossom.primal.net/8bcfc66fc38001578a99f737ceb4777f86a3c3f23a650fda721ec88e143fd046.png https://blossom.primal.net/2f272cde691f6dc900769206c77c482618b155fcc57333e2d41a3d8e0780cca1.png https://blossom.primal.net/ce4a029741ad2229ca9db3ab6e55c8466604721b0183878c82048c01ab16cd38.png https://blossom.primal.net/a74cf66864fafcf794e7553a98e51ad07e0338bf3c4263cfdc6cda66a0d834af.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a wild start to our trip to Aqualand in Gran Canaria yesterday! 🌊☀️ When we pulled into the parking lot, the attendant casually told me in Spanish that I could pay for parking with card, cash, or Bitcoin. My jaw dropped. I instantly replied, "¡Wow! ¿Puedo pagar con Bitcoin?" ...He laughed and said it was just a joke. Total heartbreak! It would have been incredible to pull up a Lightning invoice right there at the entrance gates. 😅 https://blossom.primal.net/7e37164f1ad0320a88c72658dfa69beff982b45ed7c181ffa1859ecd444064bc.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/af35910f5de2133fd5c52772e2c4c9fff1c6f0cae45e9eb843c7b5f71a2e5c23.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3f03c833849d423d59ffb122fbd9cf957fe77b3dd720631abc106cbf89dfa2d7.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/e2226701c8f24d318aca44a91ec1a199a2288a210646eeed569598228a65672c.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/ad87918545ddabae829ec243eea42ed136b9e9fc1dd0d9467e31b6aea45c98e1.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Spot on @nprofile…zdr2. And when the law has been written, published and entered in force, the regulator comes with so-called guidance and interpretations. World upside down. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a beautiful beach. Enjoy! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Most of us on Nostr are already Bitcoiners, but are we actually accepting it in our businesses? It's time to close the loop. Proud of the practical, merchant-first blueprint I've put together with the team at @nprofile…xnns. Slide into my DMs to secure your 50% "Sats-only" launch discount code! 🔓🤙 #nevent1q…rsv7 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Imagine a natural disaster hitting a region and being able to instantly stream sats straight to the wallets of every Bitcoiner on the ground. Or geo-targeting a promotion for local meetups, product launches, and events. Try doing that with a legacy bank. If you are on Club Orange, you literally get sats just for being active on the app. If you want to send some joy, the minimum is only 10 sats per recipient. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon This is absolutely wild. @nprofile…y308, just opened up GeoZap to the entire world 🌎🍊 Basically, you can drop sats to Bitcoiners in any city, country, or region on Earth instantly. Zero addresses, zero invoices, zero permission needed. I just tested it out by targeting Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. There are 4 Bitcoiners on the map there, so at the 10 sat minimum per person, I sent a total of 40 sats. The coolest part? I paid the QR code seamlessly using my @nprofile…tead of my usual Club Orange app wallet. The interoperability is beautiful. 👇 https://blossom.primal.net/36b91b9f57e2736f5db4cf4b48e9140c0689d13b6c1c23b37e883703979f9b1b.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Great initiative @nprofile…ad8w. Many bitcoiners owning private businesses, including myself, would be interested. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Just caught the recent @BTCSessions episode on the BIP-110 debate, and the crew hit the nail on the head. I’m no technical protocol expert, but the core principle here is simple: Bitcoin is sovereign money. Yes, we need to actively use it, spend it, and build a real circular economy—not just quietly hoard it in a vault. But trying to force-censor what people can write to the blockchain just to block "spam" is the entirely wrong approach. 👇 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Spot on! Think about the legacy friction: a business makes a post on Twitter, leads a client to a website, routes them through a payment processor, and loses a cut to a bank. Nostr cuts all of that out. By merging data relays with instant programmatic Lightning rails, the platform is the marketplace. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon We all know the value of Zaps on Nostr, but have you heard of the "Send a gift" feature on Facebook? I read through Meta’s official T&Cs for it, and the fine print is a complete joke. Meta explicitly states that these gifts have "no monetary value" and that they retain "sole discretion" over whether a creator ever gets a dime—all while deducting credit card fees and corporate "bad debt" from the creator's cut. Contrast that with a Zap: actual sovereign money settling peer-to-peer instantly, with zero platform fees or corporate permission required. Web2 forces you to buy centralized database credits and hope an intermediary passes a fraction along, but true value-for-value belongs on open protocols. ⚡ #Nostr #ValueForValue #Zaps #Bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/9bfdbf84861ea8668ff9fbf0f16c8dea666ce7980519f211d774a8be4d3f74b2.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Exactly. As a consultant I work in AML/CFT compliance almost every day and this is just common sense. You can regulate the business on/off ramps, but trying to force KYC onto open-source node software is a hilarious misunderstanding of how technology works. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Not your keys, not your coins. If your Bitcoin is sitting on a centralized exchange or custodial wallet, you are still letting someone else control your life. 🛑 Later this month, I'm opening up our brand-new foundational course at @nprofile…57ks to teach you exactly how to claim true financial sovereignty and secure your own keys with absolute confidence. I want action-takers in this cohort. Check out the link and DM me directly to lock in an immediate 50% off coupon when you pay in Sats. Let's build your parallel future today! 👇 #nevent1q…e4tx npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Stacking spot sats is always the ultimate long-term play. But if you are forced to hold liquid fiat or stablecoins for real-world bills and suppliers right now, your choice matters. Instead of locking cash in Wall Street equities like STRC, letting euros or dollars sit dead in zero-yield legacy bank accounts, or using USDT/Open USD where corporate boards pocket 100% of the profits, choose USDB on Spark. It keeps your cash 100% liquid for everyday fiat expenses while routing the underlying T-bill yield straight into your wallet as daily satoshis. If you must hold stable currency during this transition phase, make those dollars fight for the Bitcoin circular economy. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Visa, BlackRock, Stripe, and Mastercard teaming up for "Open USD" tells you everything you need to know. The legacy financial system is absolutely terrified of losing control over global settlement pipelines. They want us running on their rebranded fiat hamster wheel. I’m with @nprofile…g77w that the big boys are building new digital cages, but we don't have to just sit back and hoard. We have better tools now. 👇 #nevent1q…9x50 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The best part? It’s a diverse ecosystem. In the south alone, you can spend sats on: • Lodging: SanCarli Apartment • Food: Bio Finca Las Tenerías • On/Off Ramps: GBTC Finance npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Gran Canaria currently hosts 11 active merchants mapped across the island. The infrastructure is splitting beautifully into two distinct hubs: • North (Las Palmas area): 8 active merchants forming a tight network. • South (San Bartolomé de Tirajana area): 3 active merchants. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The Bitcoin circular economy is quietly taking root in Spain! 🇪🇸 @nprofile…4lpn shows 357 merchants active on the mainland, and the momentum has swept into the Canary Islands with 32 active spots. Let's look at the breakdown on Gran Canaria... 👇 https://blossom.primal.net/a851d89ce18f91476891089eef0f40d8d6b939c36f566f7ffea6f3446f07b6eb.png https://blossom.primal.net/eb888b8f4de79f26a010ad7759d959421498ef2ec8630da5158a2d7c193e7cdb.png https://blossom.primal.net/4544781bda3c3e3ac8ddb4cbb85bd3b166c3304bea088a211c1595fcede84adb.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon On top of the world at Pico de las Nieves! 🏔️✨ Standing at the highest peak of the Canary Islands, nearly 2,000 meters above sea level. The view above the clouds is absolutely breathtaking. ☀️🎒☁️ https://blossom.primal.net/c501a1454d46592a6e732329c7b53ed5fdbd2d52eaf36cb6ee1218f8f7e95aa9.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Great job @nprofile…vmya with the new app—the on- and off-ramping flow is impressive. The current on-chain buy connection is great for an on-ramp, but since the Lightning Network are much better suited for everyday payments, it's the missing piece to truly use bitcoin as money. Any timeline on when a direct buy connection to a Lightning wallet will be available so we have a full loop? 🔄⚡️ npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Heads up for anyone testing it: there is a small, one-time 5,000 sat (~$3) entry fee to activate your shop. Honestly, it's a smart filter to keep spam bots off the platform and keep the feed clean. Worth it for zero server fees. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Ran across @nprofile…qq3f today—it turns your npub into a functional marketplace in under 5 minutes without touching a server or database. 🤯 Products go straight to your followers' feeds as native notes, and the payments hit your self-custodial Lightning wallet directly. This is exactly the kind of friction-free tooling we need to support independent merchants across the ecosystem. Have any of you tested this one out yet? 👇 #SovereignBuilder #LightningNetwork #SupportSmallBusiness npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Happy Monday from the sun! 🌞 Starting the week with a clear thought on the circular economy: If we want a parallel ecosystem to succeed, we have to actively build it. That means aggressively supporting the small businesses trading right here on Nostr. Buying from them, zapping them, promoting their products, liking their posts, and giving them the exposure they deserve. Volume follows attention. 📈 I’m making it a personal priority starting today. Our economic sovereignty depends on closing these loops. Who is joining me? 👇 #Bitcoin #Nostr #CircularEconomy #SupportSmallBusiness npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Completely agree, Johnny. Beck & Bulow moving physical goods is the ultimate proof of concept. For me, the real indicator is all the (new) micro-merchants on Nostr. Selling art, selling real life products like oil, etc. They might not have massive volume yet, but they are putting up real storefronts, testing the rails, and onboarding their own local networks. Velocity starts with a dense foundation of small businesses taking those first critical steps. That's where the loop genuinely closes. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I’ve spent years analyzing legacy financial structures, but analyzing how languages form is just as fascinating. Papiamento is quite literally a decentralized, grassroots protocol for human connection. The team at Simon Academy is putting together a basic beginner course to give builders the skills to unlock the Dutch Caribbean market. I'll be running the live interactive sessions myself. Check out the origin story below and DM me if you want a slot. 👇 #nevent1q…5fdp npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Just caught up on the 83rd edition of the Weekly Nostr Recap—huge shoutout to @nprofile…lcxr and everyone contributing to this essential newsletter! Seeing the data laid out is incredible. We aren't just looking at an open social protocol anymore; we are watching a global, sovereign marketplace form right in front of us. From small merchants like Beck & Bulow moving high-quality products purely for Sats, to real-world impact projects raising hundreds of thousands of Sats permissionless like Burgos' initiative. The analytics show the true velocity of a parallel circular economy in action. The growth is real, the tools are ready, and the builders are here. If you aren’t reading this weekly update, you're missing the true heartbeat of Nostr. Keep up the phenomenal work! 🤝⚡️ #Nostr #Bitcoin #CircularEconomy #Value4Value #nevent1q…tc7l npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Spot on. Bypassing the percentage-based extortion of legacy processors changes the game for margins. Tools like Phoenix and Breez are perfect for lowering the technical barrier for small vendors. The next hurdle for them is just making sure they log those transactions cleanly for local compliance. Keeping it simple on the front end means they can focus on the business! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Running businesses since 2010 has taught me that the best ideas are often the simplest. Out here in Gran Canaria, I see small vendors working tirelessly, completely at the mercy of legacy payment fees and slow settlement times. Back when I started, I had no choice but to accept the legacy tax of credit cards and banks. But today, small businesses on Nostr have a superpower: peer-to-peer Lightning payments. You don't need a massive corporate structure to take control of your money. You just need the courage to start stepping outside their ecosystem, one transaction at a time. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I’ve never trusted the Saylor approach. True sovereignty isn't born from holding Wall Street debt wrappers like corporate convertible notes or equity proxies like STRK and STRC—it's built by stepping completely outside their ecosystem. As the @nprofile…xnns team highlights below, you can earn 3.5% to 6% APY natively on your stable capital using the USDB BTKN token right on the Spark Network, paid out daily in sats straight to your self-custody wallet. Normally, a regular family in Europe or the US keeps their $5,000+ holiday fund sitting completely idle in a legacy bank savings account. By switching that exact fund to USDB, they generate a steady stream of roughly 24,000 sats a month (~$15.30 USD). It’s not about making you rich—it’s about velocity. That $15 a month is easily enough to buy a few free rounds of coffee or a family breakfast at a local Bitcoin-accepting merchant. Your core holiday savings remain perfectly fluid and ready to pay for the vacation, while your passive daily yield directly funds the circular economy over Lightning. 📥 DM me if you want to know exactly how to set this up. 🔄⚡️ #bitcoin #circulareconomy #nostr #nevent1q…sqlf npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon That UTXO and privacy nightmare really only applies if we’re talking about Layer 1 on-chain transactions. Making small on-chain purchases absolutely creates a mess of tiny change outputs and leaves a highly visible public trail. But that completely changes once you move up the stack. Utilizing the Lightning Network, Spark, or eCash totally bypasses the UTXO bloat for daily transactions while offering massive privacy advantages. The friction is disappearing fast. The real hurdle now isn't the tech or the UTXOs—it's just shifting our habits to actually use these scaling layers for everyday trade. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Appreciate the question, John. I think it stems directly from the multi-year indoctrination of "HODL" as the ultimate and only philosophy. The community has been deeply conditioned with a strict "never sell, only buy" mentality. While holding is essential for saving, it has created a massive psychological barrier to spending. If we completely surrender to that mindset and never actually use it as a medium of exchange, Bitcoin will only ever be viewed as digital gold. For it to fulfill its destiny as true peer-to-peer money, we have to actively break that conditioning and start letting it flow through the circular economy. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Fair point, Luke. Necessity is absolutely the ultimate adoption engine—the flourishing communities on FCBE.io prove that broken money drives immediate, rapid utility. But dismissing 1st-world loops as just "hopes & prayers" misses the proactive side of the coin. The goal here isn't to wait until our banking systems completely break to start learning how to use Bitcoin as money. Building these small, circular habits right now—even when fiat feels "strong"—is about hardening the parallel infrastructure before we actually need it. Opting out is a choice we should practice today, so the network is mature and ready for tomorrow. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Want a practical example of how this circular economy actually could work right now? Look at the native stack: 1️⃣ Earn Natively: Spend a few minutes playing puzzle apps like Satsman or tracking your daily steps with sMiles to stack free sats daily. Right now, most people just hoard and stack these sats. But while individual earnings are extremely small, collectively they can create massive purchasing power for merchants if we actually choose to spend them. Every small step makes an immediate difference. 2️⃣ Hold Natively: Keep those earned sats sitting right inside your connected Nostr wallet. 3️⃣ Spend Natively: Find a merchant on Nostr or BTC Maps, and pay directly into their business profile wallet. Right here on Nostr, these direct peer-to-peer payments are just Zaps. ⚡️ 4️⃣ Supply Natively: That merchant then takes those exact satoshis from their revenue and uses them to pay their suppliers or B2B partners in Bitcoin. The beauty? It’s pure Bitcoin peer-to-peer from end to end. No conversion to fiat, no banking rails, and zero taxable exchange events. A completely self-contained loop from game to wallet to merchant to supplier. The loop is ready—we just have to break out of the HODL-only mindset and close it. 🔄⚡️ #bitcoin #circulareconomy #nostr #plebs #nevent1q…756p npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Shout-out to tools like @nprofile…nexv for making it so easy to find physical merchants—it's essentially the Google Maps of the Bitcoin economy. 🗺️🔍 But it would be a game-changer if we could do the exact same thing natively right here on Nostr. Imagine being able to search the protocol not just by a username, but instantly filtering by business type, jurisdiction, products, or services. Great initiatives like @nprofile…y308 and @nprofile…mcdw are already laying incredible groundwork for local adoption. If we can back that up with native protocol discovery tools, finding and supporting each other's sovereign businesses will become completely effortless. ⚡️🙌 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon As laws like EU Chat Control and the US KIDS Act tighten, a massive wave of demand for no-KYC networks is coming. We are undeniably early. Lowering our time preference shouldn't mean waiting passively—it means actively funding the foundation today so that when the crowd arrives, a thriving, un-censorable marketplace is ready for them. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Let’s be real but optimistic: the Bitcoin "circular economy" is facing a big growth pain—we have a spending problem. 📈🌱 I drive solid traction and earn in the fiat world, but after a year of trying to fully transition, the reality here is clear: like most merchants on Nostr, I'm earning almost nothing in BTC yet. It’s easy for business owners to get impatient! HODLing is a great savings strategy, but a real parallel system needs velocity. Tiny Zaps are awesome, but supporting each other's actual businesses is what builds a sovereign future. We have the tech and the community to make this work. If we shift our mindset and start actively buying from each other, this decentralized economy will be unstoppable. Let's do this. 👇 (Continued in comments) #bitcoin #circulareconomy #nostr #plebs https://blossom.primal.net/284c21696d2bfb7da13a0458f857958da88d8ff95db9423bc2476d910caf0ddb.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Appreciate the like anyway! And fair point—I definitely have a tendency to write a lot of words, but I can assure you I'm not nearly good-looking enough to pull off that job title. 😂 Jokes aside, this isn't about chasing personal validation. When you are trying to build a real, functioning circular economy, active engagement and network effects are the literal lifeblood of the business. If we can't talk honestly about the lack of transaction velocity and user retention here, the ecosystem can't grow. Always open to a real debate on how we fix that. 🤝 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon That’s the irony of it. Centralized superapps—whether in China or Silicon Valley—are a dream for top-down control. Musk wants the data and payment lock-in. We have a massive opportunity here on Nostr to prove that decentralized, open architecture can serve consumers better without the corporate capture. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Elon Musk talks about turning X into a Western "superapp"—an all-in-one platform for chat, media, ID, and global payments. WeChat already mastered this years ago. But here’s the reality check: Nostr clients like @nprofile…2h8g and @nprofile…kclk have literally been doing this for a while now. Through a single cryptographic key pair, a user can instantly access borderless P2P messaging, media sharing, live streaming, decentralized marketplace stores, and lighting-fast global micropayments via native Zaps. It is the ultimate "Everything App," entirely decoupled from corporate control. So here is my challenge to us: Why are mainstream consumers and merchants still sleepwalking into centralized corporate traps instead of utilizing Nostr fully? Is it a friction problem? A marketing problem? Or are people just too comfortable trading their data and sovereignty for legacy convenience? Let's discuss. 👇 #superapp #wechat #elonmusk #nostr #decentralized #bitcoin #sovereigntech npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I agree. There have been lots of beautiful games which were more than worthwhile watching during this world cup, but looking at certain games like the ones of Egypt against Argentina and Norway against France, it definitely takes away the fun. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Let’s be honest for a Saturday morning: the Nostr echo chamber has an engagement problem. My wife posts our Gran Canaria holiday photos on Facebook: 79 likes, 30 comments. I post virtually identical content here on Nostr: 1 or 2 interactions if I’m lucky. I’m fully committed to the sovereign web, but let's cut the coping—I completely miss the network traction, reach, and vibrant engagement of legacy giants like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Nostr is a brilliant protocol, but as a functional social network, we are barely scratching the surface of true mainstream adoption. How do we stop talking to ourselves, fix this retention issue, and actually bring the crowd over? (And no, it won’t stop me from posting.) 👇 #nostr #plebs #grownostr #decentralized #socialmedia #bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/7bdec9742e6a4f8979907151c3d4235c418722372088f6030d2bff7fe7ba6378.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Good morning, everyone! ☀️🌴 Happy Friday from sunny Gran Canaria! We've had a brilliant start to the day—I kicked things off with an early morning walk along the rugged south coast, and the kids have already spent hours splashing around and swimming in the pool. 🌊🏊♂️ Today, we are packing up the car and heading over to the coastal village of Puerto Rico right here in Gran Canaria (no long-haul flights to the Caribbean for us this time!). We are starting our day at the beautiful Mogan Mall before heading down to explore the marina and enjoy the lively holiday energy of the town together as a family. 🚙🛍️ Hope you all have a fantastic and productive end to your week, and a great weekend ahead! 🍊 #goodmorning #travel #grancanaria #holiday #familytime #plebs npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Good morning, everyone! ☀️🏝️ An update from our family holiday here in beautiful Gran Canaria. Yesterday was an absolute blast in Maspalomas. We checked out the iconic lighthouse, walked along the breathtaking sand dunes, did a bit of shopping, and wrapped it up with some amazing Italian food right by the beach. 🌊🇮🇹🍝 Today, we are hitting the road again and heading to Puerto de Mogán—often called the "Venice of the Canary Islands." Can't wait to explore the canals and colorful streets with the wife and kids. Wishing you all a fantastic and productive day ahead! 🍊 #goodmorning #travel #grancanaria #holiday #familytime #plebs https://blossom.primal.net/eb24693599be85ca0f6842f645159bcbe6ddd363397dd72da55a48b3eea5f244.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/931420895514aa540323cdd1e248d6df6fd899e06faac59dc8602e3b2c8dfc26.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Not perse. Lightning and Nostr make it possible to offer paid (recurring) memberships without relying on fiat. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Is it available in the @nprofile…kjtv? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Where is it available and downloadable? Zapstore? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Completely agree with you on the ideal goal. On the other hand, Club Orange operates on a strict paid-membership model for all users and merchants. I guess the trade-off is a highly vetted, high-signal community vs. a free, wide-open directory. Pros and cons! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I’ve had a few people ask me if they can use their Lightning wallets to buy our accredited corporate compliance and DORA training packages at @nprofile…57ks. The answer is a resounding YES. Our automated gateway is still trapped in the legacy system, but we run an OTC concierge service right here in the DMs. Check the note on the Academy profile, drop us your email, and let’s get you certified natively. ⚡🍊 #nevent1q…e9f5 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Not on Nostr to my knowledge. But there is one in the @nprofile…y308 app. Besides the possibility to connect and chatting to any merchant there, it has a really cool feature of targeting merchants and any other users, via geozapping or other forms of zapping. This is sometimes referred to as zapvertising. Imagine sending a couple of sats with a message, image and/or link to a targeted audience in your city, region, country, etc.. This is already possible. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 6 AM here in Gran Canaria. The family is still asleep, and I’m watching the beautiful island wake up with a coffee in hand ☕️🏝️ Even on holiday, the Bitcoin network never stops. I’ve been blown away by the active local community here. Just connected with @nprofile…czf2 to talk about the thriving monthly meetups he runs on the island. Proof that no matter where you travel, you can find your tribe and build real-world connections. If you’re a Bitcoiner in GC or passing through, look him up! Time to enjoy a few more minutes of quiet before switching back to full-time dad and husband mode for the day 🌊🍊 #bitcoin #travel #circulareconomy #plebs #goodmorning https://blossom.primal.net/dd8070ae1c1d34cf222b1b0da363c4c67d81982679189521b9cb7e7ac7545b34.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Where can I get mine? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Why is it a failure according to you? Is it because there is no mass merchant adoption yet? Or are there other reasons? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Happy Friday! ☀️ Bringing you some free stacking tips to kick off the weekend. Here is the exact blueprint I use to build a self-custodial BTCFi stacking machine entirely hands-free: 1️⃣ Set up a monthly SEPA transfer to @nprofile…vmya (flawless Euro-to-LN gateway). 2️⃣ Use Bringin's [Buy to wallet] feature to stream sats directly to a static Lightning Address on @nprofile…uxkg. 3️⃣ Swap those sats to USDB natively inside Blitz to generate local volume and unlock higher yield tiers (3.5% up to 6.0% APY). 4️⃣ Watch the Spark network auto-distribute daily Bitcoin rewards directly into your self-custodial vault. Best part? These earned sats are instantly spendable anywhere Bitcoin is accepted. And since we are accumulating at a low right now, the value of those stacked sats will only go up from here—making this the ultimate maximum-benefit savings vehicle. Sovereign wealth, optimized yield, zero legacy bank friction. #Bitcoin #BTCFi #LightningNetwork #Spark #StackingSats npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Started using @nprofile…n2f3 this morning to track all my runs, walks, rides and hikes. https://blossom.primal.net/0d3af6c5902ca9c447ae03cea8364d21ea40ca8dba3842cfcb2d146d85e1c8e4.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Interesting. A Stripe account is needed I imagine to use this plug in, right? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon https://blossom.primal.net/765b4600e220344800ad23e6977bff09de4aaa8f90208050f902f4cd5fc4e349.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a night for the beautiful game! 🇵🇹🐐 Watched the Portugal match last night with my daughter, and man, seeing Ronaldo bag two goals in the World Cup at his age is just unreal. 10 World Cup goals and 145 international goals total now. Absolute machine. As a former amateur player back in the day, I’m just in awe of that kind of longevity and discipline. Took some notes to share with my U11 girls at training later today—the way he moves off the ball to find space in the box is exactly what we've been practicing! No matter who you root for, you have to respect greatness. The kids are lucky to grow up watching this. ⚽️ #WorldCup2026 #Ronaldo #CoachingLife #NostrFootball npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a weekend. Celebrated Father’s Day with the ultimate surprise from my family—an indoor skydiving session over in Utrecht! 🪂💨 Absolute rush messing around with terminal velocity physics indoors. Incredible fun. Followed it up with a phenomenal lunch catching up with my wife and kids. Grateful for the downtime and the energy recharge. Ready to crush the week ahead. ☀️💼 #FathersDay #Utrecht #FamilyFirst #ActiveLife #Grateful https://blossom.primal.net/2f42e6a3d3357883f2fd6f0c6ed8dcd150258b6f74657ed75bf4024b534c92ee.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/87d40898afefcac0edf712a5e41d8c645ab5e8b9d25afbd25a46c427357024d2.mp4 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The sheer scale of the World Cup is mind-blowing. With tens of millions of passionate fans watching simultaneously, putting on a masterclass on this global stage means the math of public attention moves incredibly fast. The keepers of both Cabo Verde and Curaçao have completely ignited their Instagram accounts. Vozinha exploded from his baseline straight into the millions of Instagram followers overnight, and our very own Eloy Room rocketed from 95.9K all the way to 1 Million in less than 24 hours, already climbing past 1.1 Million Instagram followers. 🇨🇼🇨🇻🧤 Capturing those kinds of numbers and massive attention loops would be absolutely fantastic on Nostr. Imagine routing that raw global audience traffic away from siloed corporate databases like Instagram and directly onto sovereign, cryptographically signed open protocols where creators and athletes actually own their network. The world is waking up to the talent of the islands, and it's time to onboard them to the open web. 🚀 #EloyRoom #Vozinha #BlueWave #Curaçao #CaboVerde #NostrPlebs #SovereignTech #OpenWeb https://blossom.primal.net/205d0d7522c53b89f1d2eca203b45309251230a6bff6a97cb613138e31b42211.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I could not be prouder of the Curaçao team. After losing our first match against Germany (zero points, but they scored their first World Cup goal ever!), they just secured their ever first point on the World Cup stage with a grueling 0-0 draw against Ecuador. Absolute masterclass from Curaçao keeper Eloy Room—fully deserved Man of the Match. 🧤👑 They might be sitting last in this absolute group of death, but the trajectory is up. If they keep getting better and somehow lock in a win next game, there is still a mathematical chance to advance. No matter what happens next, this squad is already making history. Let's go! 🇨🇼🔥 #Curaçao #WorldCup #EloyRoom #BlueWave #HistoryMade https://blossom.primal.net/b87a519bb085611f90602181be2d86ce494ff5e91cd8d2d7d08b5c74a1d71299.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/8550a42cb6bbb8a653f14a5b47e26291224142399f8f8f4d0bfc67ce0e94fd70.png https://blossom.primal.net/dab827a585d17b11245af6b9e5253fc04fddd71880b060f76be179c3643aeaf8.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I love it! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Well done! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Dropping a quick personal recommendation for anyone looking to level up their Bitcoin knowledge without falling asleep over a textbook: you have to try out the Satsman app. I started out on their free tier, but I liked it so much that I upgraded all the way to a paid tier, and now I'm on their Founding Member tier. It completely maximizes my daily earnings and includes their full SBI Intelligence Programme for free. The app makes learning incredibly easy. You complete short tasks like an "Orange Pill Poll" or "Sats Price Discovery" that take less than 30 seconds per mission. You instantly stack real sats straight to your wallet while playing educational games like SatsCipher and SatsStack. Because I love this gamified approach, I’ve officially partnered up at @nprofile…57ks with the team at Satsman to bridge the gap between their app and our deeper training paths. 🤝 Want to try the 30-second missions yourself, or looking at this from a company training angle? 📩 Drop me a DM. Let me know if you want my personal app referral link or the corporate program info, and I'll send it right over! #Bitcoin #StackSats #SovereignTech #NostrPlebs #SimonAcademy #Satsman https://blossom.primal.net/93ac916f81f176f73a5eead6c87b9a494964f8b258cac5c57e810bd192215b2c.mp4 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Bon siman! ☀️ Kickstarting the week with some great energy. Yesterday we had a blast at football training with the girls—running a mini "World Cup" 2v2 tournament that kept everyone sharp and highly competitive. 🏆⚽ The athletic streak continues today as the kids start their school’s avondvierdaagse tonight! That means walking 5 to 10 km every single evening for four days straight. Hoping for beautiful weather and zero blisters for the kids. 🚶♂️💨 Let’s make it a productive and active week! #BonSiman #YouthFootball #Coaching #Avondvierdaagse #ActiveLife npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon An absolute must-read article dropped by @nprofile…xnns on the future of financial privacy. 🤫📰 It breaks down exactly why digital eCash is shifting from a theoretical concept into an essential structural tool for sovereign builders. Huge shoutout to @nprofile…cmar for pioneering the open protocol tech that makes this level of instant, private, peer-to-peer value transfer a reality. Check out the full breakdown below! 👇 #naddr1qq…a94r npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Haven't seen that Bloomberg screen in a while. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon History made! 🇨🇼⚽ Just watched Curaçao play their first-ever World Cup match. While I am Aruban, my roots run incredibly deep in Curaçao—my grandfather, his father, their siblings, and generations of the Simon family before them all come from the island. Seeing them on the world stage hits very close to home. Going up against four-time World Champion Germany, everyone wrote the boys off and expected a total blowout. And yes, while the final scoreboard read a tough 7-1 loss, the numbers don't tell the whole story. Against all odds, the team showed incredible resilience. They didn't just defend—they fought back, broke through, and scored their first-ever World Cup goal. And what a beautiful, unforgettable goal it was! 🙌🔥 It hurts to lose by a big margin, but the experience, the immense pride, and the joy of seeing the flag at the World Cup is massive. A historic day for the family roots! Mi ta orguyoso di boso! 🇨🇼❤️ #Curacao #WorldCup #FamilyRoots #Football #ProudMoment https://blossom.primal.net/6753a67ecf828993cf8cb3098735bad80d866754f2c7202529e59102e44fc521.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/21b78925e5bb2feae65ae203968a8f97d035c827c9c9d673c6820ee4963a8f0f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/729b049ff30df17f30e71f6a7316556125d616497d61294bf0bed49ec4c6f9c2.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/399c1ee470e32eb122fc6dbc1bc8209b4ce6fce67bfd719ccd47475dc8e62695.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Let's go Turkiye! Going to cheer for them in a bit. And tonight for Curaçao. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a day at the Zeeg Goedhart Tournament over in Alphen aan den Rijn yesterday with my daughter’s team, MO11-1! 🏆⚽ After a slow 0-0 opening match due to some early jitters, we made a quick tactical shift in our lineup. The adjustment changed everything—giving us the exact spark, defensive stability, and forward pressure we needed. The squad completely turned it around from there, winning the second match 3-1 and dominating the final with a clean 3-0 victory to bring home 1st place! 🥇 Our attack exploded for 6 beautiful goals, while our defensive wall stood rock solid, conceding only a single goal the entire tournament. 🧱🧤 It was also the perfect moment to officially close out the year. We thanked the girls for all their incredible effort and growth this season, and I was incredibly touched to receive some amazing thank-you presents from the team myself. 🎁🧡 The absolute perfect way to finish our U11 season before we move up to the U12 age group next year. Proud coach moment! https://blossom.primal.net/e3c7b500a97bd02f7ad979f5614a72d261be1590071408260003b0068898a306.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/64bb3c987a224be2eac20f2ed0eeee39a42f34edd5f90232b5491d04a0bf13d6.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/196427a447a9e8c037ff9c513472827b7da3b9c9bf4ae83007f9873eae986901.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/56da2c8abd2b4289b826c1b0a582a3441899bf492c3cbc4cfc86d38723ceadd8.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon So great catching your updates from @nprofile…py4c, @nprofile…ffrf! 🙌 Looks like an absolutely incredible day three over there with the crew. I have to admit, I'm feeling a bit jealous scrolling through these—I really wanted to make it out there this year! 🇨🇿✈️ Wishing you the absolute best time for the rest of the event. Soak it all in and let's catch up properly soon! ☕🍊 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The first Nostr edition of the @nprofile…xnns newsletter is officially live! 🗞️⚡ Diving deep into the hybrid future of Spark and the Lightning Network. Essential reading for anyone interested in how we quietly scale Bitcoin to billions of users. Shoutout to @nprofile…vmya for building the tools that make on- and off-ramping, and navigating these financial architectures seamless. Check it out below!👇 #nevent1q…nure npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon This is exactly why I use and support @nprofile…2h8g for creating long-form content on Nostr. ✍️🛡️ In the legacy world, you are always renting your audience, your business, and your digital identity from a centralized corporation that can flip a switch and delete you overnight. Nostr changes the rules of the game entirely. True digital ownership, decentralized infrastructure, and direct peer-to-peer value. If you are a creator or an entrepreneur and you aren’t building on open protocols yet, it's time to start. What are you waiting for? Proud to be building in public alongside teams making sovereign tech a reality! 🚀 #nevent1q…5k8g npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Always a pleasure when an anonymous profile takes a break from saving the world to analyze my lunch breaks. 🫡 Say what you want about the schedule, but at least I'm real, building in public, and showing up for my kids. Have a great Wednesday! ☕ npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Calendar is completely packed with back-to-back corporate meetings today, but the absolute highlight of my Wednesday is happening right during lunch break. Heading over to the school to watch Isabella and her friends crush a Michael Jackson-inspired live performance! 🕺✨ Cannot wait to see that moonwalk. After that, it's straight back into business mode before switching hats later this evening to coach the youth football team. ⚽🏃♂️ Grateful for the flexibility to jump from founder to proud dad, to coach all in a single day. Stay sovereign, everyone! ☕ npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I’ll be honest: I am not a fan of Michael Saylor's approach. But if you look past the laser-eyes maximalist hype, you have to respect the raw financial engineering he has pulled off. At his core, Saylor isn't a protocol builder—he’s a master Wall Street operator running an unprecedented corporate arbitrage loop. By exploiting the premium on his company's stock (Strategy Inc.) to relentlessly issue shares, raise debt, and vacuum up spot Bitcoin, he has essentially built a high-performance fiat-to-BTC printing press. It is hyper-capitalism at its finest, driven entirely by a corporate mandate to maximize shareholder investment value. But here is the twist: even if you don't like his centralized, custodial approach, he is single-handedly fixing the corporate plumbing for global Bitcoin adoption. By open-sourcing his legal frameworks, launching corporate debt products, and teaching public CFOs how to handle SEC audits, he is laying down the financial tracks that legacy trillions will eventually ride on. I might not be a fan of the man's ideology, but I can't deny the structural reality: sovereign individuals hold the keys, but Saylor is forcing Wall Street to accept the asset. https://blossom.primal.net/9a7e834cd4b5647d04338d535a4175df88c256f139686fe4749ec5c59f641b2f.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The ultimate irony of the Bitcoin space: the network's biggest advocate doesn't use self-custody. While individual Bitcoiners live by "not your keys, not your coins," a multi-billion-dollar Wall Street giant like Strategy Inc. (MicroStrategy) plays by entirely different rules. For them, true self-custody is a legal and auditing impossibility. This became explicitly clear last week when Saylor programmatically sold 32 BTC to meet corporate dividend obligations, only to turn right around days later and buy 1,550 BTC using an At-The-Market stock arbitrage engine. Instead of a private seed phrase, their massive treasury is split across heavily regulated titans like Coinbase Custody, Fidelity Digital Assets, and traditional mega-banks acting as collateral agents. Every single transaction relies on cold storage vaults, complex multi-signature approval rings, and strict regulatory compliance. Saylor accepts this counterparty risk because it’s the only legal framework that allows a corporate balance sheet to absorb hundreds of thousands of coins. Sovereign individuals hold the keys; institutions hold the audited custody contracts. Both are driving adoption, just on entirely different playing fields. #Bitcoin #MicroStrategy #Custody #InstitutionalCrypto https://blossom.primal.net/80a80bc2656ba7063f88610c4628b5c8fd39ad0861bbb763b221b008bcadcce0.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Fair concern regarding VCs in the wider space, but this is simply a platform focused on incentivized learning. Users do the educational missions, they earn satoshis. No corporate strings attached. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon https://blossom.primal.net/ebfbc2ebc3189ccbc8e870379c0bc2b403d51f43983f63cd557073706252be71.gif npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Happy Sunday! ☕ I initially checked out Satsman to see if it was just another high-promise, low-value platform cluttering the space. But because I value real Bitcoin education, the architecture caught my attention. It’s pure proof of work. You spend a few minutes a day completing fun, highly technical educational missions about the protocol. Doing the work is what actually earns you sats—distributed daily. Earning thousands of sats just as a free user is entirely doable in a short amount of time. The model made so much sense to me that I didn't just stay a free user; I took the leap to become a founder to help scale it. As a founder, the earnings accelerate by at least 3x, plus much more. That's how I've personally stacked over 140,000 sats in a very short period. No marketing fluff, just structured onboarding for the network. If you want to put in the proof of work and try the free missions out for yourself, drop me a DM and I'll send over access. ⚡ #Bitcoin #ProofOfWork #Satsman #Education https://blossom.primal.net/14e75a212fd4ecae0c30885a93c3b787567c222d3c4f88f3acd7394c41e0be3f.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Serious question: Why are so many "hardcore" Bitcoiners still spending 90% of their day screaming into the void on X, feeding Elon’s engagement algorithms, and dealing with shadowbans? You claim to love censorship-resistant, decentralized protocols for your money, yet you willingly open a corporate app to beg for permission to speak. If you are still prioritizing Web2 clout over building the sovereign social layer, you aren’t a maximalist—you’re just a hypocrite looking for likes. The protocol is right here. Why are you still over there? #Nostr #Bitcoin #Sunday #GrowNostr https://blossom.primal.net/18cc386746c1a0aae283bceb91b34b4b9668222dd797d51727db128312af84a4.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon I've become a Nostr native recently. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Great job to @nprofile…zkcl and the @nprofile…cmar developers on continuously expanding the fiat list in the Numo app! Just a minor housekeeping note for the dev team: Currently, the list includes the old Netherlands Antilles Guilder (ANG). The Netherlands Antilles dissolved back in 2010, and the currency has officially been replaced by the Caribbean Guilder (XCG) for Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Time for a quick ISO code swap in the backend to keep the fiat options perfectly up to date! 🇨🇼 #Cashu #Numo #Bitcoin #UIUX https://blossom.primal.net/db238be72e6ee2b9f0d1936c2f4651481f357bc96415a68cfa730e057d5cdc82.png https://blossom.primal.net/a184f67f625903f3bb649c57f2ad42a5faba212563eef5009696ae21c7dbbf46.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Just started following @nprofile…p5yg and her content is absolutely fantastic. High-quality, short-form Bitcoin education that anyone can grasp. If you've ever struggled to explain "hard money" to friends or family, look no further than this 1-minute breakdown. Highly recommend giving her a follow! #nevent1q…gl4q npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Just starting to follow you. I like your content. Keep it up! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon For anyone wondering where those 843,000+ BTC actually sit: SEC filings and Arkham on-chain data prove Strategy doesn't even hold their own keys. The entire stack is farmed out to Wall Street custodians, split heavily between Coinbase Prime, Anchorage Digital, and Fidelity Digital Assets. The absolute opposite of "Not your keys, not your coins." npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon My two cents on Saylor’s sale of Bitcoin: His 32 BTC liquidation to pay out equity dividends completely shatters his dogmatic "never sell" slogan. But honestly, the hypocrisy runs way deeper than just the sale. How can you quote the white paper while keeping over 843,000 BTC locked up in corporate institutional custody accounts? Satoshi explicitly wrote the white paper to eliminate the need for "trusted third parties." Saylor didn't escape the legacy banking system; he just built a leveraged corporate proxy wrapper right back into it. By forcing a sale to cover local financial liabilities, the market just proved two immutable truths: 1) Intermediary custody always introduces counterparty risk. 2) Bitcoin is not dead capital to be hoarded by corporate custodians—it is electronic cash designed for settlement, exactly as Satoshi intended. The white paper remains undefeated. #Bitcoin #Satoshi #NotYourKeys #MediumOfExchange https://blossom.primal.net/f25ae9c3f30c41539cc9fde6200d2c501b4a907cbaefafa09124ef370a21babf.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon With recent market volatility, I've been spending less time watching price and more time studying Bitcoin's expanding infrastructure stack. Many Bitcoiners have strong opinions about Layer 2s, sidechains, state chains, and other scaling approaches. Rather than debating winners and losers, I'm interested in understanding what exists today, how these systems manage liquidity and capital, and what trade-offs they introduce. Which Bitcoin scaling architectures are you researching most closely right now, and where do you see the most practical utility? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Yesterday's football training was an absolute masterclass in grit. ⚽️🏃♀️ As a coach I'm actively preparing the girls for next season, which is a massive milestone because they’ll be stepping up to play 11v11 on a full-sized field. To build up the stamina they'll need, we started with some heavy conditioning. Yesterday's menu: - A steady 3km run - High-intensity interval training - Repeats running up a steep hill The rain was falling during the run and came back right at the end of the training, but not a single one of them complained or slowed down. They just kept putting in the work—a true testament to their strength and character. 🌧️💪 After the running, we shifted gears to tactical work, focusing on positioning and formation within a 1-4-3-3 strategy. They worked hard on understanding when to press, how to use space, and transition on a full pitch. Honestly, they did fantastic absorbing the new concepts. This weekend, they get to put all of it into practice. We are playing a tournament against four boys U11 and U12 teams. It's going to be a brilliant test of their conditioning and new tactical structure. Incredibly proud of this team. Let's go! 🔥🏆 #Football #Coaching #Tactics #Grit #ProudCoach https://blossom.primal.net/4ea92808d76d53ffd241e06060590f3b9811d6b592c69bfeb08549e964a9f460.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/54213eb09989c5a4e095d54df6b2541044453d9d7f5846ddcef9bcd5641c6872.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/bc6d6e7784edda2c5276b966d6463e1081cbe5e8c9281b565ad7ce1a6c39ad39.mp4 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Spot on! Never trusted Michael Saylor. He is slightly delusional charlatan with his own secret agenda, not benefiting Bitcoin at all. Bitcoin is indeed money, we just need to use it as such. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Since the all-new self-custodial Wallet of Satoshi runs directly on Spark infrastructure under the hood, it is fundamentally a Spark wallet. This means the protocol plumbing is already there. If they fully enable the feature set, the app won't just handle BTC on lightning; it will natively support BTKN tokens like the USDB stablecoin over the Spark Network layer. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Totally agree! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The vision for the new @nprofile…57ks learning app is officially live! 📙⚡️ We are actively scheduling calls with builders (React Native/Flutter + LNBits/Nostr) and strategic investors who want to help us shape the future of value-for-value Bitcoin education. Check out the mockups in the thread below, and feel free to drop me or the team a DM if you want to collaborate! 🤝🚀 #nevent1q…js25 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Hit a fun milestone today and wanted to look at the data. 📈 Not long ago, I restarted my activity here with 85 followers. Today, I just crossed 112 followers! - Net growth: +27 followers - Percentage jump: A clean +32% growth in a very short window. What's coolest to me is how this happened. I didn't chase trends; I just started sharing real-life personal and work-related content. From celebrating birthdays and sharing casual daily thoughts, to logging my real-time testing experiences with protocol plumbing—just authentic, unfiltered reality. For perspective, when I walked away from Facebook, I left behind a legacy network of 929 friends. To equal that footprint natively, I need 817 more followers here. But let’s be real about network value: 1 Nostr follower easily equals 10 Facebook friends. On legacy platforms, numbers are inflated by passive, algorithmic feeds and casual acquaintances. Here, connections are sovereign, intentional, and driven by high-signal protocol alignment. Building a network of 112 engaged peers who value open-source plumbing and authentic human interaction beats a lifetime of 929 algorithmic "friends" any day of the week. Thank you to everyone zapping, replying, and sharing the journey. Let’s keep building. ⚡️🦾🚀 #Nostr #Growth #Value npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Funny, but explained perfectly!