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Founder & CEO
Pierre Noizat is the CEO and co-founder of Paymium, the first bitcoin/euro exchange platform, which he founded in Paris in 2011 under the name Bitcoin-Central. Paymium holds Digital Asset Service Provider (PSAN) status granted by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers since 2021 and is a founding member of the Labchain consortium, coordinated by Caisse des Dépôts. The platform is backed by investment funds Newfund and Kima Ventures.
Noizat encountered the Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, which led directly to the founding of Paymium. He has authored two books on the subject: "Bitcoin, monnaie libre" (2015) and "L'énergie, face cachée de la monnaie" (2024). His written work applies thermodynamic principles to monetary theory, examining the relationship between energy and money and distinguishing between what he terms proof-of-work currency and debt-based currency. Before founding Paymium, Noizat built expertise in telecommunications and digital broadcasting, contributing to the launch of DirecTV in the United States in 1994 and to the development of TPS, a French digital channel package, in 1996. This background provided him with applied knowledge in cryptography and secure distribution systems. He holds degrees from École Polytechnique and Columbia University.
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