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

Moving the Wyoming citadel home server set up to @Start9 . New hardware, new OS, new bitcoin node. RIP to the first and longest running bitcoin node in the state of Wyoming, circa 2016.

We’re opening up the Zaprite API to some new early customers. Basically, we want to continue building it with your direct feedback of what you want from the API. It’s a lot simpler than guessing. No additional charge. Take a look!

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Opening Zaprite’s API & Webhooks - Zaprite

The Zaprite public API and webhook service is a powerful way to build a custom bitcoin and lightning payment flow for your app or website.

Wyoming now has two fantastic bitcoin centric conferences. The Sovereign Roundup from @Tristan 🌞⚡️ was a resounding success. Bitcoin, beef, and scenery like this…

Summer has begun.

Is this note a seedphrase? It could be. Any note, song, book, essay, advertisement, or prayer could be. And endless nest of authors, musicians, publishers, executives, and pastors transmitting money acting as money transmitters. Or the US DOJ is making a retarded argument. The US courts are mostly good at shutting those arguments down.

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.

The Tools of Ignorance

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...

Still have ~1 million days to match for SNI donations. Send me your receipts! View quoted note →

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.

Help Give SNI Timeless Beauty - Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

FUNDRAISER COMPLETE Progress: 21,000,000 / 21,000,000 sats Last updated: May 27, 2024 17:20:00 UTC The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is dedicated to a...

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.