Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. You’re all survivors of risky inside 2020 gatherings of over 2 hours.

The bear market can’t catch you if you have a freezer full of of steaks. This is financial advice.

I miss Mutiny wallet.

It is a sweet mercy for your favorite college football team to be eliminated from contention early in the season.

While we’ve had the integration for a while, fun to see Coinkite showing off earning bitcoin directly to cold storage.

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Earn Sats Straight to Cold Storage with Zaprite and COLDCARD

Earn Sats Straight to Cold Storage with Zaprite and COLDCARD

Charging/paying for events, meetups etc… with bitcoin is pretty bad. So we took our Zaprite checkout and applied it to a simple and powerful new ticketing platform native to Zaprite.

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Introducing Zaprite Event Tickets - Zaprite

Zaprite's Event Ticket product offers a fully end-to-end integrated ticketing option, from ticket issuance to payments, attendee check-ins and...

If you are planning a paid gathering of any kind, give it a try!

Happy Independence Day. The Cole’s are celebrating freedom in the mountains.

On April 3rd, 1836, the most consequential naval battle between the Texians and Mexicans occurred in the Gulf of America. Texians had to date been ineffectual in stopping Mexican supply lines, and it was critical to stop them as Houston drew Santa Anna further east. The Texas ship “The Invincible” - was anything but - pummeled the Mexican “Montezuma” after The Invincible maneuvered to run the Montezuma ashore before unleashing hell on the ship. Later the same day, the Invincible intercepted and American ship supplying Mexicans with weapons. These weapons were critical once rerouted to Houston’s army.

Elizabeth Warren (aka Pocohantas) has been running a protection racket for big banks in return for politically motivated hit jobs on individuals and businesses which she and the Biden administration disapprove. She kills their competition, they kill her political opponents.

Since at least 4chan, every uncensored public forum sheds leftist arguments within a year, or when the forum grows past low 100’s of thousands of users. Without severe moderation, socialist ideas collapse under the slightest scrutiny and retreat to heavily censored spaces.

Prior to Starlink, in 2016/17 I built this in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Took me about 5 months to figure out. A cheap solar panel, a couple car batteries in a tool box, and microwave about 200 yds to receivers in n the house. Tried fiber lines etc…and always had power issues. Linked up to a cell tower about 19 miles away, and got ~15 mbps down. Never any downtime in 5 years. Then Starlink showed up and I plugged it in, kinda sorta pointed a dish up, and had 140 mbps down in like 3 minutes. Still amazed several years later.

Not engaging, or caring, about politics locally or otherwise is not stoic. It’s NPCism. It doesn’t take billions to be a live action player.

I seriously suggest people stop Doordashing and Uber eating if you live in a reasonably safe area. Inviting the (in many cases) barely not homeless to case your neighborhood and house is a bad trade off.

Dead simple point-of-sale now live on @npub1cwne...raju . Pick your favorite wallet, connect a fiat app like CashApp or Venmo (or don’t) and accept bitcoin for in person sales.

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Introducing Point-of-Sale on Zaprite - Zaprite

Accept bitcoin onchain and lightning payments in-person, side-by-side with card payments, with Zaprite’s Point of Sale app.

The anatomy of how we get lower rates, AKA what goes on in Jackson Hole.

I have the utmost respect for the team behind Mutiny, and know this is a gut wrenching decision. Mutiny has been an extremely ambitious, weird, and inventive product. I have no doubt we'll see hugely successful wallets in the future filled with the DNA left behind by the Mutiny team. A great legacy. View quoted note →

Morgan Stanley sales rep at the 9:30 AM tee time this morning: MS: No no no. We learned in blockchain for business school that you Hodl here. Client: … MS: it means you never sell. Client: … MS: some drunk guy in 2013 said so

There are many conventional wisdoms that I disagree with, but the one that has helped me the most is the willingness to die on hundreds of hills to this point in my life.

If you live in Austin, or several other cities in the US, you haven’t experienced sub 10% inflation since before 2017. https://chapwoodindex.com

Downloaded the Coinbase app for testing the other day. This is not a serious place to custody millions of bitcoin.