Will Cole
willcole@NostrVerified.com
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Bitcoin. Previous builder of Unchained Capital and Stack Overflow. Now building Zaprite.
High signal: Skipped or dropped out of college to work.
Low signal: Graduated a 4 year University.
Red flag: Degree from an Ivy institution.
It was already becoming clear that college was low signal when I graduated in 2006. By 2011 when I was hiring lots of software engineers, designers, and product managers I’d completely ignore college status. Now I’m convinced it’s a net negative.
This seriously rules. View quoted note →
Our biggest obstacle in DC is pretended to be a Native American for decades to steal valor and advance her career. They’re not sending their best. 
Trust the science.
I don’t mean to brag, but I knew Craig wasn’t Satoshi long before this retarded loser Christen came out and said so.
Also, remember everyone in this drama is a known con artist. They may be mad at each other, it may be more scheming, but I’m no longer watching.
Alex gave me a pedicab ride home from Bit Block Boom. He took bitcoin as payment. He’s also fucking wild and has a podcast. So we did an episode. View quoted note →
One of my favorite things about bitcoin is it replaces “shouldn’t” with “can’t” and “should” with “can”. After 12 years thinking about it every day I’m still amused.
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It’s been a minute since Stephan and I had a public conversation. To me, the idea that merchants, independent businesses, and contractors in the US and other parts of the world are going to take 10,20,30,100 percent inflation lying down is nonsense. These people are going to stack sats, and you’re going to have to pay them in bitcoin.
Misplaced this several months ago in an office move. Feelin’ good. 
It’s worth considering whether individuals who believe the world is overpopulated and humans are causing more hurricanes and making the earth uninhabitable, want to kill you.
The drones stole the show at the Texas v Wyoming game last night. 
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. 
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.