It’s an excellent strategy for strengthening the state.
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. 
Thanks for the kind words Tony. See y’all on Monday. I’m Texas bound.
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/ 
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… 
Just switched to Noble. https://nobleorigins.com
10 days in and not going back to GNC brands. Great protein and more.
Should point out it’s protein source is beef isolate rather than whey. Found it to be way tastier.
Just switched to Noble. https://nobleorigins.com
10 days in and not going back to GNC brands. Great protein and more.
I loved what I was doing before and don’t regret it a bit.
Star Valley Wyoming is popping right now. The scenes where I decided to leave the fiat world and professionally work on bitcoin. 
Trump should get indicted and go to jail…for not freeing Ross.
You should co wider seriously upgrading the hardware. I went overboard with a meerkat from system 76 but it’s so much better. As for your restoration, it sounds like the backup channels are wrong. I know I had 2 backups when I switched over and had a scare. Possible you have a couple different setups?
My favorite orange pilling spot. No one leaves my river without getting it. Today’s for family though. 
Dude, thanks for this. I’ll be trying this out.
Never give out your phone number. I use this weekly.
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