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Pierre Simon
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💼 Founder & CEO Simon Consulting & Simon Academy 🏛️ Director Risk & Compliance at PayPro ⚽ Dad & Football Coach Blending legacy financial infrastructure with next-generation digital payment rails and stablecoins. Documenting my professional insights, business milestones, and daily life from the sidelines. 🛡️ Sound Money | ⚖️ Regulatory Strategy | ⚡ Lightning
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
Exploring the wallet setup on Yakihonne, and it’s a pretty interesting layout for managing your zaps! The app features a dual built-in layout, but they aren't connected: 1️⃣ Native Lightning Wallet: Gives you a custom address (@wallet.yakihonne.com). Super smooth for instant zero-config zapping, but keep in mind there’s no 12-word recovery seed—so this part is custodial. 2️⃣ Cashu Ecash Wallet: A separate built-in module leveraging the privacy of ecash mints. If you want true sovereignty, you don't have to use the built-in setup. You can effortlessly use Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) or flick a switch to hook up external favorites like Wallet of Satoshi, Phoenix, Zeus, Alby Go, and many others. Great UI that gives beginners an easy landing pad, while giving power users the total freedom to take full custody!
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
My timeline here is a mix of my day to day life—one day I’m sharing my morning commute to the office, the next I'm celebrating my daughter turning 11 with family karaoke, and today I’m looking at protocol data. 🚗🎂🎤 To me, it’s all connected. And my recent posts about Geozapping and firing corporate ad agencies proved that a lot of you feel the same way. ⚡️ Amidst all the current debates about low user numbers on @primal and other nostr client apps in general, the truth is staring us in the face: People don't just want another tech-heavy Twitter clone. They want a space that enhances their real, daily life. 📉❌ To win over the mainstream crowd from corporate monopolies like Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook, we need to stop focusing purely on tech talk and start building interactive, real-world utility right into our social feeds. What is one everyday, real-life feature that would make your non-Bitcoin friends finally join the network? 👇 #nostr #primal #web2toweb3 #circulareconomy #lifestyle
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
My daughter Isabella turned 11 today, and we made sure it was a day she won't forget! 🎉✨ The birthday magic started early this morning—we kicked off the day singing to her, bringing out a birthday cake, and watching her face light up as she opened her first round of presents. 🎁🎈 Then, she headed off to school looking absolutely beautiful in a dress (speaking of that "normie/girly" energy we were talking about earlier, @Cami) Eleven years have flown by so fast. Happy birthday to my amazing girl! ❤️ #family #birthday #parenting #celebration #karaoke
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
A true circular economy requires three things: merchants, events, and direct value exchange. Looking through the @Club Orange app, you can see this active network thriving right now—from local or global merchants like @Simon Academy to upcoming Amsterdam meetups. But the real game-changer for businesses is how features like Geozaps and Biozaps completely rewrite modern marketing: - Legacy Web2: Businesses pay thousands to corporate ad agencies to blast annoying, ignored pop-ups at people. - The Web3 Shift: Businesses can fire the middleman and pay their target audience directly. Instead of burning a budget on big tech, a local shop can drop real value (sats) straight into the wallets of local users within a few kilometers of their storefront or target key groups (like educators or podcasters). It transforms marketing from an annoyance into an incentivized, hyper-targeted relationship. Stop paying middlemen—start zapping your community directly! 🍊⚡️ #bitcoin #circulareconomy #cluborange #geozap #hyperlocal #marketing
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
Most people think the only way to get Bitcoin is to buy it with fiat. While using gateways like @Bringin | The Complete ₿itcoin App is a seamless way to stack, the real magic of the Bitcoin ecosystem is that you can actively earn sats just by interacting with modern apps—even if you are completely new to tech. If you want to start accumulating without dipping into your bank account, here is exactly how the landscape looks right now: 1) Creating Content (Nostr): This is the ultimate game-changer for "normies," influencers, and everyday content creators. On Nostr, social media "likes" are dead. By just posting your normal daily life, makeup routines, holiday pictures, or engaging content, other users can "zap" you micro-tips instantly. You get paid directly by your audience for being you. 💅📸 2) Learn-to-Earn: As a founder and active user of Satsman, I am incredibly proud of its educational mission. I believe the best way to understand Bitcoin is to make it fun and playful. By learning the mechanics of sound money through gamified experiences, you accumulate real sats. Earning by learning. 3) Passive Yield: You can make your investments work for you. Sitting in yield-bearing assets like USDB allows you to earn passive income paid out directly in sats just for holding. 4) Move-to-Earn / Daily Habits: Apps like sMiles and @Lightning Faucet literally pay you fractions of Bitcoin just for walking, driving, or completing daily tasks. Whether you are a creator stacking via Nostr zaps, walking, or playing educational games on Satsman, the opportunities to accumulate are everywhere. Stop just watching the charts—start participating in the economy. ⚡️📈 #bitcoin #satsman #earnbitcoin #nostr #valueforvalue #contentcreation image
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
Lately, trending feeds have been dominated by heavy technical debates and internal drama. While protocol architecture is vital, the hard reality is clear: the average smartphone user does not care about caching servers. If the goal is to pull millions of people away from legacy platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and Facebook, Nostr cannot just be a 24/7 echo chamber for tech ideologues. It needs to be a vibrant home for real life. Mass adoption means onboarding people with completely different interests. The network needs everyday lifestyle content to feel alive: - Family holiday pictures & birthdays - Makeup routines & skincare tips - Unboxing videos & shopping hauls - Simple, goofy cat videos When younger users or non-technical creators onboard today, they often find the network quiet or boring because it lacks a relatable audience. The users who ignore the tech debates entirely and simply post their daily interests are doing exactly what the network needs to grow. True sovereignty means giving regular people a permanent place to share their lives without corporate algorithms manipulating them. Instead of fighting over client boundaries, let’s focus on building better user-controlled filtering tools so families can safely navigate the network, while keeping the digital town square welcoming. Let's support lifestyle creators like @Cami, bring more love to the feeds, and make the protocol fun. The infrastructure is ready—now let's fill it with life. ⚡️❤️ #nostr #massadoption #decentralization
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Pierre Simon 2 weeks ago
Great catching up with the country manager of Onerway UK today! Since Onerway is the parent company of PayPro, it was fantastic to connect with our UK sister company counterpart while she is in town for the Money20/20 event. Had a productive business lunch and showed her around our Amsterdam office—including the roof terrace overlooking the canals. Always great to align strategies with the global team when the fintech world descends on Amsterdam. Welcome to NL! 🇳🇱💼☀️ #fintech #money2020 #paypro #onerway #amsterdam #networking image
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Pierre Simon 3 weeks ago
Ever wonder how WeChat Pay handles physical retail transactions using a static QR code? It's a massive growing market in Europe, but the mechanics reveal a heavy legacy burden: 📲 The Flow: A European merchant displays a static QR code at the counter. The Chinese customer opens their WeChat app, scans it, manually enters the fiat amount specified by the merchant, and authorizes the payment. ⏳ While it feels seamless for the consumer, the merchant is left holding the bag. Settlement takes at least 1 business day (often longer across borders), and payment processors charge hefty transaction fees—frequently climbing up to 3%. ⚡ Compare this to Bitcoin Lightning or e-cash. A dynamic or static QR code allows instant settlement in milliseconds. Peer-to-peer, final settlement, with transaction fees that are fractions of a cent (essentially 0%). Why pay 3% and wait 24 hours for credit risk when open monetary protocols can settle instantly for next to nothing? The shift to native value rails isn't just about tech—it’s pure corporate efficiency. 💼📈 #fintech #payments #wechatpay #bitcoin #lightning #crossborder image
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Pierre Simon 3 weeks ago
A public proposal for the teams at @primal and @YakiHonne to completely break the back of legacy social media competition. 🧠🚀 Both of your UI/UX is already top-tier, but if we, as Nostr community, want to give users absolutely zero reason to ever fall back on walled gardens like WhatsApp, Facebook, or LinkedIn, we need to bring full-spectrum communication to the protocol layer. Imagine if Primal and /or Yakihonne integrated: 👥 Native Group Chats: High-signal, encrypted spaces for communities and businesses. 📞 Voice Calls: Instant peer-to-peer audio right from the DM interface. 📹 Video Calling: Secure, open-protocol video streaming without corporate spyware. Because Nostr handles the identity layer natively, adding secure, WebRTC-based communication rails means that a comprehensive, sovereign communications hub can be build. So why don't you build the ultimate killer app layer. What do you say, @primal and @YakiHonne teams? 😉⚡📡 #nostr #primal #yakihonne #bitcoin #innovation #fintech #grownostr