Will Cole

March 13 1836 was a grim day during the Texas revolution. Sam Houston and his army learned of the fall of the Alamo and decide to retreat east. Rock bottom morale… But in 2026 Parker Lewis, backed by the glory of of the Lone Star flag, talks about Zaprite and the P2P app we are building to facilitate payments worldwide.

Point your favorite AI model at https://api.zaprite.com/llms.txt if you're looking to integrate bitcoin payments into your app. Less searching and fiddling. Stack more sats.

March 2, 2026 - The 190th anniversary of Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico. In 1836, The Alamo is still under siege while delegates from Texas meet at Washington on the Brazos (between modern day Houston and College Station) and unanimously approve the declaration. Bad news is coming in a few days from the Alamo, but the Texians have cemented themselves as sovereigns instead of rebels. That will be an important distinction in our dealings with America and others soon. Between those at the Alamo and Refugio on this day, and the signatories below, you have a good chunk of all the town and county names in modern day Texas.

Sitting outside on a beautiful Feb 25th day in Austin, Tx and it hit me…I remembered the Alamo. It’s actually day two of the siege at this point. Alamo defenders haven’t yet got word out on just how bad their situation is. But Crockett, Travis, and a sick Bowie are holding down the fort. Goliad isn’t much better. Fannin has disobeyed direct orders to retreat and regroup and dug in for defense. Urrea is leading a massive force up the coast to meet them.

It’s time to invade New Mexico and reclaim our Texian birthright of Taos and Santa Fe.

I turn my back for 6 months and Alby hub becomes unbelievably cool. The isolated app connection workflow is incredible.

Gratifying to see so many stack sats at the local bottom getting their @Zaprite invoices paid at the beginning of the month, or sell tickets to their events. Congrats humble sat stackers.

Some of you thought it was OK to own chairs, and it shows.

Max pain is sub 50k

It’s been this way for a couple of months. X is completely useless. One of the best products ever built. Before it was censorship of right wing voices that threatened it. Musk really did save it. But now the censorship is way worse - anything that is not about Minneapolis is buried. The network effect has been gutted. The worst product team fuckup I’ve seen in a long time.

The storm was not fake news. None of this is snow. All ice in Texas.

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…

My niece Stella makes her TFTC debut giving a GenZ perspective of AI optimism, bitcoin as savings, and education at Alpha school in Austin. She rules. 📝 7f1e5b8e…

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. https://www.meetup.com/austin-bitcoin-developers/

The bear market can’t catch you if you have a freezer full of of steaks. This is financial advice.