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Will Cole
willcole@NostrVerified.com
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Bitcoin. Previous builder of Unchained Capital and Stack Overflow. Now building Zaprite.
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willcole 2 years ago
Misplaced this several months ago in an office move. Feelin’ good. image
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willcole 2 years ago
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.
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willcole 2 years ago
The drones stole the show at the Texas v Wyoming game last night.
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willcole 2 years ago
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
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willcole 2 years ago
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. image
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willcole 2 years ago
Bitcoin is up 8,000% since Drivechains were first proposed. I personally can wait another 6 years.
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willcole 2 years ago
Normalization of monetizing the US debt is in vogue. Thank God for bitcoin. image
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willcole 2 years ago
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. image
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willcole 2 years ago
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! image
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willcole 2 years ago
I love Tennessee. The volunteers for the Texas revolution were badass. Love my friends in Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville. But I will tap the sign when needed… image
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willcole 2 years ago
Star Valley Wyoming is popping right now. The scenes where I decided to leave the fiat world and professionally work on bitcoin.
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willcole 2 years ago
Trump should get indicted and go to jail…for not freeing Ross.
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willcole 2 years ago
My favorite orange pilling spot. No one leaves my river without getting it. Today’s for family though. image