Founded in 2020 by Car & Team

Thriller is Austin's Bitcoin zine, dedicated to providing high-quality content and coverage of the latest developments in and around central Texas. Since our founding in 2020, we've published over 400 articles, produced over 300 podcast episodes, and covered many Austin Bitcoin startups, founders, events, and culture.

With our dedicated readership, we're a reliable partner to get the good word out and grow your presence across the Bitcoin ecosystem.

  • Launch Pad - Give your Bitcoin company a voice. Thriller provides a way to tell your company's story to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
  • Bitcoin Brands Start Here - Thriller prides itself on covering the latest projects and brands. Unsurprisingly, we have covered and helped some of the fastest-growing startups. 
  • Exposure - Once we hit 'Publish' on a story, it gets distributed via our growing email newsletter, bitcoin twitter, rss, stacker news, nostr, and more.

Bitcoin events we have covered in the past include:

Bitcoin companies we have worked with in the past include:


Here at Thriller, we're taking the Gruber approach to how we do ads.

Available Months

February 2024 - SOLD
March 2024 - SOLD
April 2024 - June 2024 - 1 slot Available
July 2024 - September 2024 - TBD
October 2024 - December 2024 - TBD


What do I get?

  • sponsored post about your company at the beginning of the month.
  • Placement of your Bitcoin company linked in every post on Thriller.
  • Finally, our menu bar, announcement bar, and socials recognize your company with a sponsored link all month.

What are your metrics? 

  • 13-17K unique views monthly, up 20% from 2022. See below for everything else.

How much?

  • We do flat monthly sponsorship at an affordable rate. Contact us.

#ProofOfWork this month vs last.

Thriller reaches a global audience
Total web page requests for Nov - Dec 2023
Total web page requests for Dec - Feb 2024
Top web page requests by country for Nov - Dec 2023
Top web page requests by country for Dec - Feb 2024
Unique visitors for Nov - Dec 2023
Unique visitors for Dec - Feb 2024
Podcast listenership over 3 years steady 2x increase year over year.
  • 📈 Thriller monthly unique visitors: 13k - 17k
  • 📈 Thriller monthly web page views: 189k - 270k
  • 📈 Estimated Thriller RSS feed subscribers: 1K
  • 📈 @thrillerbitcoin twitter account: 1,372
  • 📈 Thriller monthly downloads: 2.8k
    We use transistor to track actual downloads. Transistor makes sure Thriller numbers are not inflated. We do not spam our podcasts to RSS sites.
  • 📈 Thriller ZAPS: ⚡️100k sats monthly from pod. ⚡️250k sats monthly from our publication. 
    We believe this is the most important metric here.

Thriller has an entire audience of Bitcoiners, developers, designers, founders, venture capitalists, and a thriving Bitcoin community here in Austin, Texas. If you are local to Austin, definitely reach out. We love to work with local vendors and startups.