Gratifying to see so many stack sats at the local bottom getting their @Zaprite invoices paid at the beginning of the month, or sell tickets to their events. Congrats humble sat stackers.

Some of you thought it was OK to own chairs, and it shows.

Max pain is sub 50k

It’s been this way for a couple of months. X is completely useless. One of the best products ever built. Before it was censorship of right wing voices that threatened it. Musk really did save it. But now the censorship is way worse - anything that is not about Minneapolis is buried. The network effect has been gutted. The worst product team fuckup I’ve seen in a long time.

The storm was not fake news. None of this is snow. All ice in Texas.

2026 is going to be huge for Zaprite. Our Event and Tickets product came out of the womb with a full head of hair and teeth, but we’re adding native ticket transfers, and easier ticket issuance for event organizers. The API gets better every week, integrations with excellent Bitcoin wallets continues to expand (also fiat integrations like quickbooks just launched) and the invoicing product is being adopted by companies that don’t even prioritize bitcoin payments. However, I’m most excited for expanding bitcoin’s peer-to-peer native abilities in 2026. I seriously love what I get to do.

There is endless silver in Mexico.

In December of 1835, Davey Crockett having lost his congressional seat in Tennessee and saying to his supporters: “You may all go to hell, I will go to Texas”; is making his way across Arkansas. He picks up a few followers along the way, getting to Texas with 15 companions from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. He’s looking for Sam Houston, another Jacksonian he’s previously met, and orders…

In December of 1835, Texans actually take control of Texas. Skirmishes from October and November turn into wins with full blow sieges like the one in San Antonio that breaks December 6th. But the Texans are beating frontier troops while Santa Anna raises an obscenely large army in Mexico City to deal with the rebellion.

GM Claude Code, we’ve got some important work to do…

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

Bitdevs at Bitcoin Park Austin is shaping up to be a banger tonight. Come early for a few drinks before we dive into v30 and much more.

Meetup

Bitcoin Park Austin | Meetup

A community supported campus in Austin, TX focused on grassroots freedom tech adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and b...

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

I miss Mutiny wallet.

Scott Ballew just released Paradiso, his fourth self written/self produced album. The most Texas Texan in Texas and one of my best friends. Check it out!

Spotify

Paradiso - Album by Scott Ballew | Spotify

Scott Ballew · album · 2025 · 8 songs

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.

COINKITE Blog

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.

Zaprite

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!

One week into the NFL season and @Michael Levin is in shambles. Maybe if he spent a bit less time trying to make lightning amazing and focused on pretend football he wouldn’t be so publicly embarrassed.