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 @Bringin | The Complete ₿itcoin App (flawless Euro-to-LN gateway). 2️⃣ Use Bringin's [Buy to wallet] feature to stream sats directly to a static Lightning Address on @Blitz Wallet . 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

Started using @RUNSTR this morning to track all my runs, walks, rides and hikes.

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

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

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

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

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 @Simon Academy 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

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

An absolute must-read article dropped by @Simon Consulting 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 @Cashu 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! 👇 View article →

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

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!

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! ☕

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.

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

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

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

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

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