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Last Notes npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon The last few months were tough. Between navigating a quiet summer period, facing friction after introducing Bitcoin payments, and getting buried under client delivery, I lost focus on what actually moves the needle: active sales, nurturing relationships, and consistently showing up. I got so caught up in the day-to-day consulting and academy work that I stopped scheduling regular coffee catch-ups, skipped networking events, and neglected proactive check-ins. When you get too consumed by execution, it's easy to stop growing the business. Now that the summer holiday season is officially over, the focus is 100% recalibrated: Engage. Sell. Deliver. Today’s momentum: 🏋️♂️ Early morning gym session done 🏢 Back at the desk hitting sales calls & booking appointments 🤝 Client lunch meeting at 12:00 📊 Tracking every touchpoint in a custom CRM I built from scratch New week, renewed focus, full energy. Let's get to work! 🔄⚡️ npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Interesting. Is the app also already downloadable in the @nprofile…kjtv ? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 💯 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Sneak peek behind the scenes! 📲✨ Been putting in the work refining the new @nprofile…57ks Learner Portal, and it's finally coming together nicely. Here’s an early look at what we’ve been building—including native Nostr key integration (npub) right on your profile! 🔑 Inside, we're diving deep into Alternative Payment Methods (APMs)—breaking down everything from SEPA and super-app dynamics (Alipay/WeChat Pay) to Merchant vs. Consumer QR flows (MPM vs. CPM), FX netting, and cross-border risk management. Understanding how legacy & regional APMs scale is the ultimate cheat code for building smoother, faster sovereign rails like Lightning & ecash. More modules dropping soon. Stay tuned! 🎓 https://blossom.primal.net/d4ba7bcea426fd9214b925740fc6699ea25cad5c41d7e4f136240eb11c1f1dac.png https://blossom.primal.net/7fb5a21ca10ddd3112728a44f664d14522aa27fdd019a2b8bfdfae611c30e219.png https://blossom.primal.net/7e6c83bf5da92e53d268b83984eb37eb8e313659085e3313ccc2d541c309493e.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Thinking back to my recent time in Aruba watching people use local bank apps like Sentoo and Pay.aw. Everyday consumers don't care about regulatory terminology or backend settlement mechanics—they just want to scan a QR code, hit approve, and move on with their day. If we want sovereign rails like Lightning and ecash to win global adoption, we don't need to change human behavior. We just need to make the sovereign option 10x smoother, cheaper, and faster for the merchant than their bank app. (This is actually why I’m currently developing a new short-course series for @nprofile…57ks focused on alternative payment methods, comparing legacy QR systems vs. sovereign open rails!) npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon @nprofile…03tj @nprofile…s3qg 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 starting to follow you. I like your content. Keep it up! 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 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 Funny, but explained perfectly! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Did a deeper technical dive into the new Spark wallet architecture, and there is a massive hidden detail everyone should know about transactions are being routed! 🧩💡 Every single Spark-enabled wallet automatically generates a native spark1... network address behind the scenes. The catch? Popular Spark enabled wallets like @nprofile…kclk and @nprofile…2xse choose to hide this native Spark address from the user UI, exposing only a standard Lightning address (LNURL) instead. Here is why that matters economically: ❌ If you send or receiving a transaction using the LN address, the wallet routes it over regular Lightning rails, forcing you to pay standard network routing fees. ✅ If a wallet actually allows you to see and use the native Spark address, transfers between those addresses are completely free! It's great to see various wallets shifting toward self-custody under the hood using the @nprofile…8a92 SDK, but hiding native protocol addresses limits what the tech can actually do. We need more wallets to expose these spark1... addresses so the community can enjoy true zero-fee transactions across the network! 💸❌🦾 https://blossom.primal.net/e90a31e0d78c558a9d20f08db3bd8e911c8d816b6a0fb94b0d05801656110059.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Yes you are. Although not everyone would agree with that 🤣 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Curaçao plays their first ever World Cup match against Germany! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Any plebs on here offering P2P exchange services from AWG (Aruban Florin) to BTC? 🇦🇼⚡️ Preferably looking for someone with a local Aruban bank account for a smooth, direct transfer. Drop me a DM or reply if you can help or know a trusted local peer. Let's keep it in the network! 🤝🍊 #Aruba #Bitcoin #P2P npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Nice initiative. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 100% human here! And for the record, if anyone does want to pay 1000 BTC (or even 1 BTC for that matter) to test that theory, my wallet is wide open. 😉 My brain just moves faster than my thumbs, so I use an LLM to tweak my writing and keep it understandable. Hats off to @npub1rcr…cfuz for the incredible data work! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon A killer move by @nprofile…qrn6 to fact-check the protocol debate with hard receipts. John Carvalho (CEO of Synonym, the team behind Pubky) has spent plenty of time bashing Nostr and claiming their protocol is a massive upgrade. But Daniel quietly pulled up the metrics and let the facts do the talking—Pubky’s numbers are sadly low, while Nostr is actively thriving. Massive respect to @nprofile…xrcf for keeping a clean, spam-free dashboard at npub.world/stats that makes these reality checks possible! 📊🙌 There’s also been a lively discussion on the timeline about Primal and declining app usage. But the bottom line is staring us right in the face: individual clients will always have user cycles, but the underlying Nostr protocol is growing, and real human activity is way up. The foundation is rock solid, and people genuinely want to be here. 📈✨ To be clear, this isn't about changing our current culture or replacing the tech posts we all love. Everyone should always be free to post exactly what they want and feel like. 💬💻It's simply about expanding the room. To make Nostr and Bitcoin mainstream, we just need to build smooth, easy entry points for normal, daily life—meeting people where they are instead of forcing them to navigate complex jargon. 🗺️ Look at the master move by the @nprofile…cmar community recently: they added support for almost every local currency directly into the Numo POS app. A merchant can type in their local currency, the app handles the Bitcoin/ecash rails entirely under the hood, and the user just taps to pay. No friction, no math equations, just pure utility. 🥜⚡💶 The energy is buzzing. Let’s keep our core strong while welcoming the rest of the world into our thriving economy! What local currency feature or app are you most excited to see bridge the gap next? 👇 #nevent1q…pcpy npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon This is exactly what I'm talking about! 📊🙌 Huge thanks @nprofile…qrn6 for sharing this, and major shoutout to @nprofile…xrcf for maintaining a reliable dashboard. Seeing those active users genuinely trending up changes the whole conversation. This data is the exact roadmap devs, creators, and merchants need to keep pushing real-world adoption forward! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 💯 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Love the meme! 🤫 But if we want the Nostr community to keep on growing, numbers absolutely matter. Transparency is how devs, merchants, and creators align to build better utility for everyday users. We can't build a real circular economy in the dark! npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Thanks for sharing. Do you have the numbers for Nostr as well? These are ofcourse way higher, but would be interesting to see the real usage of Nostr as well so we know where to keep on improving it. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Agree. But for it to truly be "for the people," we need all the people here, not just the tech-savvy. Bridging Nostr with everyday utility—like local community tools and simple onboarding—is how we make it lively and accessible for the mainstream crowd. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Have you tried using @nprofile…2h8g? npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 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 @nprofile…kclk 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 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Thanks, Thomas! It completely flips the traditional advertising model on its head. Direct value transfer beats central ad networks any day. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon A true circular economy requires three things: merchants, events, and direct value exchange. Looking through the @nprofile…y308 app, you can see this active network thriving right now—from local or global merchants like @nprofile…57ks 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 https://blossom.primal.net/471e113ac8efbdd8b5913d85af333c1d8706aa05f240e4dd1a6017e1affa50d5.png https://blossom.primal.net/7f02ddaac702b4c10f50bc01fcd70acdff706c617342ae9abf8770c4cfd977f4.png https://blossom.primal.net/49b990e4a9d14dbc0340d36e0903c7787774928783c1ff3333e1e14ac2fea340.png https://blossom.primal.net/73816b5dbbc03b834a1875fb77e6336f7b58a214546d81d86783c7aafcf15d0f.png npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Normie girls are going to save Nostr. Perfect update! 😂👌 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon @nprofile…8a92 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon 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 @nprofile…s26m, 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 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon @nprofile…6ae8 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon More of this please. My eldest daughter @nprofile…6ae8 loves this type of content. Hopefully I can convince ther now to become more active here on Nostr ;) npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon @nprofile…gnt8, @nprofile…3cmp, @nprofile…a45g, hopefully this provides some regulatory clarity. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a Sunday. ❤️ Spent the morning at the theater watching Samantha crush her streetdance performance with her crew—she did absolutely fantastic! Right after, I pulled a quick tactical exit to rush Isabella over to her weekly Sunday football academy session. Big win today—two of her friends joined the squad for the first time, loved it, and played incredibly well. Now the second show is wrapped, and my eldest daughter completely killed it on stage with her group! Two fantastic dance performances in one day. I’m honestly blown away by the high-quality, professional organization of this entire event by their dance club. From the pitch to the stage, the girls absolutely dominated today. Proud dad moment. 🎭⚽️💪 #family #sundayvibes #dadlife #grateful https://blossom.primal.net/b0a9817432fb60b2ff99158f65939c57060d8eaa6c6a43c33cd232c1581dae76.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/0e4a14a02e7c12cf0b4fa52824d694f140c9d0db48404e7d00a29243361c90f8.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/009e9ddb6fc4ec7846874d2b11b8170dd09beb712c3aaf62cc2b03d105434301.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/2b0889a6e30ed13e060dc44b7dcad04da0e6a8a81374e630f31265ce3cceef46.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/4022036aad9706113bce133d7c03cea3ff372f0332c75b78c87e93d7bd336665.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Nostr is indeed very likeable npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Funny 😂 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Also curious to understand it. Yakihonne has good UI/UX. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon There is a lot of criticism surrounding @nprofile…kclk on the trending feeds right now regarding the server-side blocking of @nprofile…2af4, and the concerns are real. As someone trying to nudge friends, family, and my kids to leave Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for Nostr, I obviously don’t want them exposed to explicit or triggering content. Accounts like fuckstr push boundaries, posting highly provocative memes about religion and race that are clearly designed to mock and test the limits. Personally? I found his memes about Jesus talking to himself pretty funny. But he is at a minimum triggering, and it’s understandable why some people find it offensive. But the answer to offensive content isn’t a return to centralized Web2 moderation or top-down client filters. The core promise of Nostr is absolute free speech and user sovereignty. If a user doesn't like someone's provocative tone or edgy content, they can simply choose who to follow, use native mutes, or switch relays. We don't need a central party or proprietary caching servers dictating what we are allowed to see via server-side blocks. That is permission-based communication. What we need from teams like Primal is world-class UI/UX and better localized, user-controlled filtering features so we can curate our own experience and protect our families ourselves. Give us the tools, but let the protocol breathe. ⚡️🆔 #nostr #freespeech #decentralization #primal npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Did I miss something major here? Feel free to orange-pill me if there’s a deeper issue with the Primal crew or Paul that I’m overlooked. Always want to stay grounded in the reality of what’s happening behind the scenes. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Totally understand the cautious view on VC money, but Ten31 seems to be strictly hyper-focused on the Bitcoin ecosystem. Ultimately, funding like this is a massive win in my opinion for users. It gives the @nprofile…kclk team the runway to build even better UI/UX and advanced features that make Nostr intuitive enough to compete directly with legacy social tech. Capital well-deployed accelerates mass adoption. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon This is a massive macro signal, Jesse. The pipes are laid and the distribution network is massive. The transition to a pure global Lightning economy is moving from a 'what if' to an absolute mathematical inevitability. npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon A phenomenal Saturday spent way up north at the beach in Den Oever with the extended family. Full execution on relaxation: swimming, a bit of football on the sand, great food, drinks, dancing, and soaking up the perfect weather. ☀️🌊🏖️ The core mission of the day? Celebrating my father-in-law's 81st birthday (round two!). His actual birthday was last Thursday, but you don't cross a milestone like that without a proper family roundup. At 81, he is healthy, full of energy, and surrounded by his legacy—including his 11 grandchildren. Seeing him this vibrant is the ultimate reminder of what truly matters. Family is the ultimate foundation. Hope you are all resting and resetting with the people who matter most. 🦅❤️ #family #legacy #dadlife #denoever #grownostr https://blossom.primal.net/1bff8fec8119850c1c6f1b8b55bc393f4e75c2e6034045aea117744aabe807fc.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/201f20a2ad719555d327ed1c713d6996b9b4286461ad8a2be780caca2811c80b.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/415d5cf54b0da54406d95e957ee63db0744074e303de9f40086097fa4b1a1aaf.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/aa32c1dbdd8b98a3ca1494f100e0574c890d966003f3331d5c771c7f82e9b49a.jpg npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon Or bon bini as we say in Papiamento 😉 npub1l9zpexgh03tkuhglu78srv6jf4mm29kn5x6mnedkjg59qlacu9gsc52779 Pierre Simon What a finish to the season! Samantha and her team just fought through an absolute thriller on the pitch, locking in a hard-earned 6-5 victory to close things out. Pure determination from the girls. ⚽️🏆🔥 With the season officially wrapped, we are immediately shifting gears. Sun is shining, weather is perfect, and we are heading way up north to Den Oever for a well-deserved weekend escape. 🌊☀️🚙 Big wins, beautiful weather, and family execution. Enjoy your Saturday, everyone! ⚡🥊 #dadlife #football #victory #weekend #grownostr https://blossom.primal.net/aef80ba2552a662af1313f5e645e1259a934962e8463a1c88f4577486029a81e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/5a7175305781791ab075e87b40f7262cdf992577145728b6ca02f00583ec102d.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/c5ed20439912c9332895504291e490764420f9a2b0b94962cef3d919466505aa.jpg