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.

I’m shocked more people in TradFi don’t kill themselves once they realize their career is a farce and they’ve been working for some guy in Jackson Hole and they have no deterministic abilities in their professional lives.

GM. Paris ,Texas is bigger than Paris, France.

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

I much prefer sweating the small stuff and not accepting reality.

After extreme patience, on April 21, 1836, Sam Houston strikes at Santa Anna. The Battle of San Jacinto was quick and decisive. In under 20 minutes the Texian army killed 600 Mexicans and captured another 700. Texians death were under 10. Santa Anna cowered after the defeat, disguising himself as a private before being noticed in the makeshift POW camp. He negotiated for his life, and against the wishes of many, Houston arranged for his return to Mexico. The war was effectively over and the Republic of Texas was founded.

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.