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 ( nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg rules), found Nostr ( nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 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 ( nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3 and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx 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 nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju , 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! https://blog.zaprite.com/joining-zaprite/ 
TiL Parker Lewis and Will Cole left Unchained.
Im so out of the loop with the movements and whats going on with Bitcoin.
I need to set aside some time to get caught up
Orange you glad you dont use Binance anon?
Or bottomfeeder salad tosser
Bottomfeeder lettuce hands
Whichever title he's going with these days
What software stack do I need to be a creator ?
🦐🥬🧤
What is a pm?
This is used for Python: https://github.com/jeffthibault/python-nostr
I starting making my own Python nostr library because I thought the one above was too complicated though.
For go, ZBD has one similar to their nostr tools JavaScript library:
Good to know. A limiting factor on Python-nostr is that it needs Python 3.9 so ill have to create another environment
Im current using noscl and hacking crap together with subprocess calls but this is really not the way to go
Whats everyones favorite nostr development kit thing for using nostr with Python or Go?
nostr:note1r38rz84l2c5e366k38gp5nfpe82jlm64jcyzyu3mk9yzy6egaz0qzapd26Confirming via X isnt suitable because 1) too many people at X have access to fake that verification message 2) not everyone has access to X.
A true Pepsi account should setup nip05 address on their domain. Its very easy.
Raretoshi is a platform for NFTs on Liquid sidechain of Bitcoin thats been in operation for a few years.
Liquid also has support for general asset token issuance.
And if for some reason an org wants to spin up thair own side chain, they can host their own instance of Elements which is the foundation of Liquid.
What isnt clear to me is just how much permanence people want and need. Bitcoin may offer the most permanent, permissionless, censorship resistant protocol but its not an efficient use of blockspace. If anything, ordinals reveals that scarce blockspace may be underpriced or underutilized at times.
I think the likes of ordinals naturally get priced out over time as people and orcs opt to pay market rates for onchain transactions. Just as miners are an adaptive buyer of last resort for stranded energy, ordinals will fill the space of unused blockspace. Will this influence base prices? Absolutely. Energy generation can be built, but blockspace cant. And given that Bitcoin onchain transactions in part compete with FEDWIRE, we still have a ways to go on cost equilibrium.
Lol. Whether the account is actually associated with Pepsi or not TIL that Pepsi changed their logo.
If this account is being run on behalf of Pepsi, Id recommend changing your nip05 nostr address.
This ones a small one from 20 pounds of rice. But still could be funny to wrap two peoples legs together halfway up to the knee
What uses do you all have for these rice bags when emptied?
Its the closest emoji representation I have for "stacking sats"
Its as much Bitcoin as any other custodial solution like Fedimint, Elements, etc. Theres bitcoin involved but users just have IOUs. In this case miners would control those side chains both in vetting creation, and in moving coins back to Bitcoin. I would much rather use more local federated solutions