The Digital Frontier: Navigating the Evolution of European Merchant Payments
Pierre Simon, 2/26/2026, 5 engagements
Pierre Simon
💼 Founder & CEO Simon Consulting & Simon Academy 🏛️ Interim FinTech Executive ⚽ Dad & Football Coach Entrepreneur since 2010. Helping small businesses and startups transition seamlessly from legacy payment friction to sovereign Bitcoin rails—profitably and legally. Documenting real-world insights, regulatory survival, and daily life from the sidelines. 🛡️ Regulatory Strategy | ⚡ Lightning | 🔄 Circular Economy
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I’ve been digging back into an interesting project from 2023: the Catawba Indian Nation in the Carolinas and their bid to create a Bitcoin-friendly "Digital Economic Zone" (CDEZ).
Their goal was ambitious—to build a jurisdiction tailored for FinTech banks, DAOs, and digital assets, effectively creating a "Ditch Delaware" alternative right on sovereign tribal land. Looking at their current site, they are still offering LLC and DAO incorporations with a regulatory framework designed to move at the "speed of innovation".
Question for the #Nostr community: Does anyone have boots-on-the-ground info or recent experience with the CDEZ? Is it gaining traction among Bitcoin companies, or is it still in the "early pioneer" phase?
With the eCash Renaissance and the rise of "Guardians" we’ve been discussing, these kinds of sovereign zones could be the perfect "Nuts and Bolts" infrastructure we need for true hyperbitcoinization. 🧱🍊
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