willcole
Will Cole

thetoolsofignorance.xyz

Bitcoin. Previous builder of Unchained Capital and Stack Overflow. Now building Zaprite.

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npub1du6sgl90wse0cz44fg50a4kg9ea4sgctlxps90ccx58lw8ssgv9qhjyf3c

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willcole@NostrVerified.com

NIP-57 Address

willcole@strike.me

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nostr.mom

offchain.pub

nostr.wine

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npub1du6sgl90wse0cz44fg50a4kg9ea4sgctlxps90ccx58lw8ssgv9qhjyf3c

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2025-04-03 15:27:12

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.
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2025-02-24 20:52:28

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My dream retirement gig. Teach that class and maybe be the middle school offensive coordinator.

2025-01-20 23:09:02

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My wife went 108-72 against the spread this year between NFL and College football. I did…not.

2025-01-20 12:52:20

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I may be being foolish, but I do believe Ross gets pardoned today.

2025-01-20 11:13:21

Gm. It’s Ross Ulbricht day.

2025-01-05 15:50:24

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That’s how I feel too. It doesn’t make any sense, but there’s this huge group in the UK that won’t say why they like it. It’s really confusing.

2025-01-05 15:35:56

The culture in the UK is so foreign to this Texan. Child rape in Ancient Greece has an (gross) ethos behind it, and it wasn’t shunned or secretive. But in the UK the people who revere child rape are secretive about their motivations. I’d love to learn more…

2024-12-28 04:22:48

Merry Christmas from a load of Cole’s.
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2024-12-28 04:18:15

Love the War Mode boys and was determined to give them a better 101 than poor Dave Portnoy has received.
#note1kq0…7m8v

2024-12-13 16:14:39

When someone asks what % they should invest in Bitcoin, trying to time the market, and rebalancing, the send them this.
#note10ez…qygh

2024-12-12 03:44:28

BIG if true.
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2024-12-08 19:18:39

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Nope, but I’ll take it this year. Really crazy as an SMU fan given where we were a few years ago.

2024-12-08 18:08:52

Because I know everyone here are huge college football fans, I want to confirm that both SMU and Texas are in the college football playoff.

2024-12-02 03:08:03

Elizabeth Warren (aka Pocohantas) has been running a protection racket for big banks in return for politically motivated hit jobs on individuals and businesses which she and the Biden administration disapprove. She kills their competition, they kill her political opponents.

2024-11-19 04:00:52

Since at least 4chan, every uncensored public forum sheds leftist arguments within a year, or when the forum grows past low 100’s of thousands of users. Without severe moderation, socialist ideas collapse under the slightest scrutiny and retreat to heavily censored spaces.

2024-11-17 21:15:36

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Yes, you should buy bitcoin

2024-11-15 16:49:03

The texts from non-bitcoiner friends are accelerating…

2024-11-14 20:59:53

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I tried running fiber but I kept having power issues. I’m not expert but it ended up being way simpler given the challenges to the build.

2024-11-14 20:11:15

Prior to Starlink, in 2016/17 I built this in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Took me about 5 months to figure out. A cheap solar panel, a couple car batteries in a tool box, and microwave about 200 yds to receivers in n the house. Tried fiber lines etc…and always had power issues. Linked up to a cell tower about 19 miles away, and got ~15 mbps down. Never any downtime in 5 years.
Then Starlink showed up and I plugged it in, kinda sorta pointed a dish up, and had 140 mbps down in like 3 minutes. Still amazed several years later.
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2024-11-13 15:05:36

Checkem
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2024-11-12 17:14:09

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Agree that exit is engagement 100%.

2024-11-12 17:02:07

Not engaging, or caring, about politics locally or otherwise is not stoic. It’s NPCism. It doesn’t take billions to be a live action player.

2024-11-08 23:34:50

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Stay tuned!

2024-10-27 18:31:57

Casually marketing ketamine IV’s (not to mention ayahuasca) to the general public is insane.
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2024-10-26 15:28:46

Vibe today.
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2024-10-25 18:46:52

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I used to play a lot as well. last game I clocked 100 hours on was Skyrim back in like 2011. After that, the microtransactions starting appearing, play to win, and I lost all interest.

2024-10-21 21:13:23

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A little uneven. Some spots were too chewy. It was a smaller suckling, like 25lbs and we cooked it for 4.5 hours. Will do a longer cook, despite the lower weight next time.

2024-10-21 17:36:02

Highly recommend.
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2024-10-18 23:35:21

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That’s an oldie!

2024-10-15 19:58:21

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Let’s be honest, I’m not making the playoffs.

2024-10-15 12:43:30

Please treat @npub1rtl…jtfs like you always have as he recovers from the assault I put on him. Doctors believe he may have permanent loss of running the football effectively. Don’t stare at the wounds, that would be rude.
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2024-10-05 21:50:43

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Missed this originally. No it doesn’t. Zaprite is noncustodial. If you bring say Strike or CoinCorner, you may be able to auto convert.

2024-09-23 01:20:17

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CashApp fiat, not Bitcoin (yet) via the Square integration.

2024-09-22 18:08:05

A new crying meme is born courtesy of the Austin American Statesman.
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2024-09-14 02:18:33

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Neighbors being robbed.

2024-09-14 02:18:16

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And the weird thing is they usually just don’t.

2024-09-14 01:31:06

I seriously suggest people stop Doordashing and Uber eating if you live in a reasonably safe area. Inviting the (in many cases) barely not homeless to case your neighborhood and house is a bad trade off.

2024-09-09 11:30:30

GM. If you’ve been getting 10% raises (or returns) every year since 2020, you’re substantially poorer today than you used to be.

2024-09-05 19:17:35

For the next few months I will refrain from Texas posting as I publicly shame these bitcoin dorks each week. The McCaffrey bros can’t be stopped.
#note1e0u…h3e5

2024-08-29 21:32:05

Dead simple point-of-sale now live on @npub1cwn…raju . Pick your favorite wallet, connect a fiat app like CashApp or Venmo (or don’t) and accept bitcoin for in person sales.
https://blog.zaprite.com/introducing-point-of-sale-on-zaprite/

2024-08-27 11:10:39

GM new nostriches. You may be wondering what this place is all about: what a zap is, how to store your npub etc… I’m here to help. What you do is:
1. Post about Texas and how big it is.
2. People will like you and tell you the rest.
#note1r6x…yfxe

2024-08-26 02:44:20

The anatomy of how we get lower rates, AKA what goes on in Jackson Hole.
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2024-08-21 19:48:43

Most valuable fund in the world, worth their 2 & 20…
Buy Bitcoin, hold for 12 years (3 cycles). No trading, no early disbursements, no leverage. Shocked it doesn’t exist.

2024-08-19 15:43:45

I wanted to like it but this Immortality Key book from Muraresku is almost as rough as Sapiens. Not quite as clearly wrong and cringe, but not far off. I must be missing something because many people I like find it persuasive.

2024-08-16 14:10:49

I will not be outbid by Tim Draper this time. Those Silk Road coins belong to us.

2024-08-15 23:20:13

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https://youtu.be/7QAOotH9Jdo?si=GzIEzg3FxPWZk7Oa

2024-08-15 23:19:03

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No wife of mine…

2024-08-15 17:27:28

Twitter (by fiat) and Nostr (by design) are the only mass media where large scale truthful statements are even possible. Twenty years of the “social media revolution” and we’re in this shocking place.
In retrospect, it was inevitable.

2024-08-05 19:46:31

I have the utmost respect for the team behind Mutiny, and know this is a gut wrenching decision. Mutiny has been an extremely ambitious, weird, and inventive product. I have no doubt we'll see hugely successful wallets in the future filled with the DNA left behind by the Mutiny team. A great legacy.
#note1mny…3fy8

2024-08-05 14:35:17

Morgan Stanley sales rep at the 9:30 AM tee time this morning:
MS: No no no. We learned in blockchain for business school that you Hodl here.
Client: …
MS: it means you never sell.
Client: …
MS: some drunk guy in 2013 said so

2024-08-05 05:19:23

Y’all are on Nostr, which means you’ve been here before. NGU technology has not been compromised.

2024-07-28 01:57:28

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I’ve had a similar line rattling through my head for 20 years (6 startups will do that to you).

2024-07-27 22:31:28

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Wouldn’t over index too much there. It only states that the only way to sell is to pay down debt. Not that it must be sold. 20 year lockup.

2024-07-27 22:19:27

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Trump is getting there.

2024-07-27 22:14:20

Bitcoin doesn’t need politicians, but it doesn’t hurt when they know what they’re doing. The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill is NOT a messaging bill. It is meant to pass. The bill immediately strengthens the United States, and puts us on the path to strengthening the dollar (once it’s backed by bitcoin). Cynthia has been at this since she won her election in 2020, and I truly believe this is just the beginning. Full text of the bill to be posted Tuesday.
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2024-07-27 02:44:32

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I recall you hated them before it was cool to hate satanic rituals.

2024-07-27 02:43:12

There is nothing more bullish than watching my good friend @npub1j4u…d6x9 execute on his vision for the future of SNI.
#note1377…0j2a

2024-07-21 17:04:51

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Friend lent me a copy

2024-07-21 01:40:13

This book is a marvel. No idea how I missed it for this long. Weirdly detailed and focused, written by someone who was not qualified to do so. Unintentionally funny and unendingly informative. I know it’s popular in bitcoin circles, but in case you missed it like I did.
https://m.primal.net/JYQS.jpg

2024-07-11 17:36:54

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Here’s a few you could check out:
https://www.matthewjcrawley.com/
https://dentistryrockford.com/
https://www.linkdentaldenver.com/
https://www.ultrapersonal.healthcare/
https://www.frontsideconsulting.com/
https://acroamablends.shop/
None are bitcoin businesses. They all accept bitcoin as payments, and don’t auto convert. Interesting angle!

2024-07-11 16:48:00

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We have loads of non-Bitcoin focused businesses accepting bitcoin payments through Zaprite. I’ll reach out to a few of them to see if they want to participate.

2024-07-11 02:26:43

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I prefer principled as the framing.

2024-07-11 02:00:07

There are many conventional wisdoms that I disagree with, but the one that has helped me the most is the willingness to die on hundreds of hills to this point in my life.

2024-07-06 00:37:54

Don’t worry y’all. Bonk is back.
https://m.primal.net/JJDD.jpg

2024-06-13 17:16:25

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One of my favorite web projects ever. I wish these home server solutions would allow you to do delicious + caching to build your private index.

2024-06-13 14:20:15

Wouldn’t it be funny if a trans racial conwoman’s fight against bitcoin was Biden’s undoing? Everything is good for bitcoin. Even it’s lying race baiting enemies.
https://m.primal.net/IjNA.jpg

2024-06-13 03:30:25

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

2024-06-11 18:03:58

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This is actually incredible if all the claims are true.

2024-06-11 17:34:44

Moving the Wyoming citadel home server set up to @npub126n…e9ll . New hardware, new OS, new bitcoin node. RIP to the first and longest running bitcoin node in the state of Wyoming, circa 2016.

2024-06-10 16:48:05

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!
https://t.co/dubW3XjAmv

2024-06-10 15:21:14

Wyoming now has two fantastic bitcoin centric conferences. The Sovereign Roundup from @npub1yd2…80tv was a resounding success. Bitcoin, beef, and scenery like this…
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2024-05-28 13:36:50

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I was about to call you to lecture you on my distaste for the fetishization of failure…then you totally redeemed yourself.

2024-05-28 02:13:28

Summer has begun.
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2024-05-06 00:29:47

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Fantastic demo at btc++.

2024-04-28 13:28:41

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.

2024-04-21 18:09:06

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I googled “how to deliver a baby” when the midwife didn’t show up in time.

2024-04-21 13:35:17

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.
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2024-04-20 17:59:27

People will pretend to be busy instead of just working on bitcoin.

2024-04-20 01:54:08

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Burn-it. May-nor. It’s endless.

2024-04-20 01:32:52

Austinites, who mispronounce everything (lol Manchaca), are halvening people.

2024-04-20 01:09:34

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. #note12q9…drqw

2024-04-20 01:05:32

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I’m writing faster to save my Mutiny bros

2024-04-19 14:41:52

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.
https://www.thetoolsofignorance.xyz/invariant-4-do-what-you-said-youd-do/

2024-04-17 16:27:49

Still have ~1 million days to match for SNI donations. Send me your receipts!
#note1fdd…jfsf

2024-04-16 18:09:43

The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is doing a fundraiser to modernize the site’s design. What @npub1j4u…d6x9 and @npub1hxw…40pf 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.
https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_saYgrVYmCi

2024-04-08 18:41:56

The @npub1cwn…raju band right before and during totality here in Austin. https://image.nostr.build/79e1c2740bec2dcc82943b8b8079f1d102ab3cbe0c8cbd707d55495927ec0ffe.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c1223b202417ca4c9073e51e966c00aef956411c6aba82c182c7d52ce2d899aa.jpg

2024-04-02 15:47:51

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Looking good boys!

2024-03-29 19:51:51

Getting myself in the @npub1sax…u5fv sats flow state of mind.

2024-03-26 15:37:43

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They also have an excellent OTC desk, generally good design. They have a lot going for them, but the focus is baffling.

2024-03-26 15:12:04

Downloaded the Coinbase app for testing the other day. This is not a serious place to custody millions of bitcoin.
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2024-03-24 01:44:11

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KISS. Comfortable T’s, engraved YETI, custom AR-15’s.

2024-03-15 14:13:29

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Yessir.

2024-03-15 13:05:58

Bitcoin Takeover time. https://image.nostr.build/83b0e9136b48f1393d3cc4269f2b93d2e3915245dfda510d4659883c978437dc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8016930e4d1b06ef507587c280d89c73b6866ed53a0c2f7ae3f7aed24e391cf2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/84a8accb8e237481ae818735d32464da34bb7c5d9fec7dd0ed9223162a5b7a37.jpg

2024-03-15 01:31:32

Still one of the most beautiful things about Bitcoin. You can achieve a nation state level security posture for a few hundred bucks. https://image.nostr.build/1e6ad0de3f5f96ed9c0f1c5d1fc2c696df913465986a926527a5114bb4b94176.jpg

2024-03-14 19:32:39

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Beef from K&C cattle prepared by Johnny Ochoa. This is regular fare for special events like today’s PlebLab and tomorrow’s Takeover event.

2024-03-14 19:27:45

Everyone eats well at Bitcoin Commons events in Austin, Tx.
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2024-03-12 19:49:58

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.

2024-03-11 14:21:58

We’re all getting second families.

2024-03-08 19:07:20

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I doubt fully self custody, but some form of collaborative custody, likely with other large financial services firms with Bitcoin products.

2024-03-07 02:21:31

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Shill me blacksmithing follows.