I may be late to the party but Timechain Calendar is extraordinary. Every time I use it I find some cool hidden treasure I hadn’t seen before. timechaincalendar.com

Major launch for Zaprite today. Payment links (sell your product for bitcoin - wallet agnostic, no server, no kyc), added new subscription options, and Unchained vaults added for receiving payments. If you’re at BBB check out @jimmysong ‘s booth to see it action.

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Zaprite Platform Upgrades - Zaprite

Zaprite has introduced an innovative Payment Links feature, allowing anyone to sell goods and services online for bitcoin.

What an absolutely devastating night for Fox and the main stream media. There’s never been a moment that more clearly showed how bad they’ve failed.

Ordered. Jimmy is the man. View quoted note →

Bitcoin is up 8,000% since Drivechains were first proposed. I personally can wait another 6 years.

Normalization of monetizing the US debt is in vogue. Thank God for bitcoin.

Who is going to be the first to out wind on the blockchain for reserves when 90% of turbines aren’t spinning like yesterday? If IBM can put tomatoes on a blockchain, surely someone can figure this out.

When you’re locked in building something, you often times miss what’s going on around you. Focus is paramount, and paying attention to what other people are doing and building has never helped me in my pursuit of it. My long time best friend, and recent business partner, Parker Lewis and I left Unchained late last year, and spent several months investigating the world of bitcoin products/services we’ve been missing. It’s been a joy to play with everyone’s products I missed over the past 3 years. I changed my primary lightning wallet ( @OpenSecret rules), found Nostr ( @Damus rules), sent more lightning transactions in 6 months than I had ever before then (zaps rule), and helped some politicians take bitcoin donations (RFK rules). Also I had my third baby and Parker wrote what I expect to be one of the most influential bitcoin books. It’s been a rewarding change of pace. During this time Parker and I never stopped looking for ways to add value in the form of a new product or company. We were able to visit and get inspired at Bitcoin Park for both their mining summit and later bitcoin for businesses weekend ( @Rod and @ODELL rule), do our normal thing at the Bitcoin Commons in Austin, but most importantly, have long drawn out conversations with each other. While there were several things we explored (I visited 4 coal power plants in Wyoming, and came closer than you would think), we had to focus on one. The problem we landed on seems too simple: I have a product/event/campaign, I have a bitcoin wallet, and I want people to pay me for my product/event/campaign. We tried many things, but nothing fit our exact wants. I have a wallet. I want bitcoin to go to an address associated with that wallet. I don’t particularly want a new wallet, and I certainly don’t want a payment processor to take even temporary control over the funds. I have a wallet, but I don’t want to run a server. It is fantastic that I can if I want to, but for my personal purposes, I didn’t really want that overhead. I wonder if others will feel similarly. I want people to pay me in bitcoin. I’m not too concerned with exchanging that bitcoin for dollars. If I want or need to, there are a lot of options to do so (River, Strike, Unchained rule). So I don’t need my payment processor to do that for me. I want people to pay me in bitcoin, but I don’t want to set up an entire webstore to do so. I need something simpler, but I don’t want to keep Signaling addresses around. It did turn out we had a friend who had worked out of PlebLab and the Bitcoin Commons in Austin, Tx that was building something similar, if only we had the same vision for how it would evolve. That was John Magill at @Zaprite , and we did indeed share the same vision. I’m very excited to be working with John and Parker on Zaprite, and hope y’all will check us out next week during Bit Block Boom for the MVP launch of our e-commerce solution to pair up with the already robust invoicing product. And now that I’ve almost entirely recreated our blog post - please go check it out!

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Joining Zaprite

By Parker Lewis & Will Cole – Bitcoin, Zaprite and the future of payments.

Never give out your phone number. I use this weekly.

LNVPN - Disposable Phone Numbers for SMS Verification

Get instant disposable phone numbers for SMS verification. Pay with Bitcoin, no KYC required.

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Bitcoin does not waste energy.

Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy - Unchained

My good friend Parker Lewis and I have an open letter to the sponsor of SB 1751 which specifically limits bitcoin miners participation in demand response and ancillary services programs in Texas. This is not the Texan way.

Gradually, Then Suddenly

An Open Letter to Texas Senator Lois Kolkhorst

Texas SB 1751 recently passed a committee vote on April 5th. The legislation is problematic for Texas.

On Feb 24th, 1836 William Travis wrote for reinforcements as the Alamo came under siege. On March 6th, the Mexicans broke through. Knowing the end of this story, his letter gives me chills. Remember the Alamo!

The Travis Letter

History of the Alamo Historic SiteThe Alamo historic site is the genuine article... a real place where history happened and heroes were…

Starting to think animated avatars are a mistake. The novelty is gone and y’all are giving me a headache.

GM. Texas has a larger GDP than the entire United States until 1979. Good lord our money is terrible.

Stack sats so you can stack babies. #3.

I don’t know if it’s possible, but if you haven’t received a Zap yet and want to feel it in all its glory, reply. Demoing for someone at the Bitcoin Commons.

Testing out the Umbrel relay. Easy setup so far.