We are thrilled to announce that Parker Lewis and Will Cole have joined Zaprite.
You can read more over on our blog, where Parker and Will have written in depth about #bitcoin, the future of payments and their decision to join Zaprite.

Joining Zaprite - By Parker Lewis & Will Cole

We've had to hold this one in for a bit as we collectively focused on shipping some important product upgrades, but we are really excited to finally announce that Parker Lewis and Will Cole have joined Zaprite as Head of Business Development and Head of Product respectively.
Needless to say this is a big win for Zaprite. Parker and Will are extremely valuable additions to the team and will no doubt help us accelerate our roadmap and deliver on our shared vision—bringing #bitcoin payments to individuals and businesses around the world.
Huge, congrats to you all!
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Parker and Will are legends. Them joining zaprite is huge and I know even more great things will come of it.
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 17 Aug 2023
😚 Woo Doggie! Congrats John! Legendary team there!
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The Zaprite team is stacked!
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They publicly left almost a year ago and wrote about it then.
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A bit of googling didn't turn up this writing -- anybody have a link?
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Thank you.
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We're a very small team with a small budget. We wanted to offer something.
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Yep, all valid points. We would certainly consider upping any amount if the bug was critical enough. But we have to start somewhere, and we will of course increase it over time as out app, and budget, grows.
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Seems there is not much agreement around terminology for likes/tips/zaps/boosts/v4v etc. Confusing and not good for adoption. I will contact the bitcoin marketing department about this.
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Seems there is not much agreement around terminology for likes/tips/zaps/boosts/v4v etc. Confusing and not good for adoption. I will contact the bitcoin marketing department about this.
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We've been around longer than 'zapping' :)
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Zaprite predates nostr and the consensus of calling sat tips zaps.
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Our domain was registered in 2017, and from memory 'Zap' wallet was only launched in 2018. The name 'Zaprite' comes from to 'zap' (pay), 'right' (correctly). Zaprite's name means to 'pay correctly', or, 'pay optimally'. As in, use bitcoin/lightning instead of fiat. We always considered BTC/LN payments as zaps, but just never tried to make it a thing. We see it as very fortunate that 'zap' was actually picked up by the industry.
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While the idea + domain is 2017, the project didn't start until 2020, and the current US corp is 2021.
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I actually think it's fortunate. The associations are positive and I personally don't find it confusing (but I've known about zaprite for a couple years now).
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