Today Texans celebrate San Jacinto Day, the last battle of the Texas revolution. It’s wild that it’s the last battle of the revolution, because the Mexicans still had a ~ 5:1 advantage of troops in the area. However after the battle, Mexico’s president and lead general Santa Anna pleaded for his life after capture. He wrote to Urrea to get him and Filisola to withdraw. Filisola did. None of it makes sense really. The Mexicans just retreated. The Texans won a single major battle in the entire war. Yeehaw. These guys fought at San Jacinto in 1836.

People will pretend to be busy instead of just working on bitcoin.

Austinites, who mispronounce everything (lol Manchaca), are halvening people.

You’d be amazed how much testing goes into any bitcoin release. It is one of the reasons Bitcoin just did what it’s always said it would do…like clockwork. You may not need to be that extreme, but maybe something like this. View quoted note →

The penultimate post in my series on software development is finally ready. Invariant 4: Do What You Said You’d Do. Here I talk about QA and generally being professional in your approach to software development.

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Invariant 4: Do What You Said You’d Do

In Invariant 3: Don’t Build Without a Plan, we wrote a lot of code. In fact we wrote all the code. Because we had a strategy and spec that includ...

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The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is doing a fundraiser to modernize the site’s design. What @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard built over the years is remarkable, and Michael is now dedicating himself full time to the 501c3 to educate the next million bitcoiners. I owe a lot of my own understanding of bitcoin to SNI. If you feel the same, please consider donating. If you donate, DM me your Zaprite receipt and I’ll match the first 2 million sats I see.

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The @Zaprite band right before and during totality here in Austin.

Getting myself in the @GRANTGILLIAM sats flow state of mind.

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

Bitcoin Takeover time.

Still one of the most beautiful things about Bitcoin. You can achieve a nation state level security posture for a few hundred bucks.

Everyone eats well at Bitcoin Commons events in Austin, Tx.

To give you a sense of scale, on March 12 1836, colonel William Ward stared down 1500 Mexican soldiers - fully equipped and parading prior to attack - and refused calls to surrender. He had about 150 men. These guys were committed. This was the battle of Refugio which lasted 4 days. It was also a bit of a shitshow. Infighting between leadership, disobeyed orders, and ultimate defeat. Many of the Texian men (mostly from Georgia) would be executed later at Goliad. However, they did just enough to seal the Mexicans fate. Urrea, the Mexican general, was slowed down just enough that he would never make it back to Santa Anna’s main army. That turns out to be a big deal. Texas rules.

We’re all getting second families.

Around this time in 1836, the weakest section of the Alamo manned by Davy Crockett and other sharp shooting volunteers fell to Mexican forces. All Texian combatants, even in-firmed ones like James Bowie died in the attack. Bowie’s mom summed up what a badass James was when told of her son’s death: “I’ll wager no wounds were found on his back”. Texas rules.

It’s hard to overstate the impact of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute when it first launched. A couple of Texas-Austrians effectively orange pilled a generation of bitcoiners in the most genuine and intellectually fulfilling way possible. Many that had been around prior to SNI like myself found new conviction around this bitcoin thing we were playing with after reading @Bitstein and @Pierre Rochard ‘s work, along with the wealth of knowledge they curated. Seeing SNI get its second wind is the most bullish bitcoin news since the ETF. I just donated to contribute to their second act.

SNI: Going Institutional

SNI is now a tax exempt public charity.

Alright. For real now. Looks like we have ~25 tickets left for next week’s Bitcoin Takeover in Austin. Don’t blow it. View quoted note →

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Financial planning for psychos: try out every Bitcoin trading service ever built for over a decade. If they have it, try out their DCA tool. Forget you set it up for years at a time. Never check your finances. Ever. Just be confused why you have less money than expected. Every three years or so remember and panic about having too much bitcoin on these services and sweep to cold storage. Any liquidity event in your life, ape 100% into Bitcoin without considering your kids future. Forget everything again. Repeat forever. Only responsible behavior: meticulously setting up cold storage, multisig etc… ^ A true Bitcoin story.