Tim Bouma

My primary motivation for these posts is to help clarify in my own mind what the killer use case or the killer capability that #nostr brings to the table. The social media use case we are all experiencing today, is ok - it is a great alternative to the other platforms,

Amazing to see all the newly-minted supply chain integrity experts on Twitter.…

With #nostr the every published event is a ‘verifiable credential’ This is the big difference between other efforts where the ‘issuer-holder-verifier’ model that is bolted on top on an otherwise insecure communications infrastructure. The fundamental problem is that no matter how much engineering, or ‘bolting on’ the issue…

posting from primal…

Gotta love this heist story replacing the real with a fake, then selling the real. It’s just a photograph after all, but it’s amazing what is considered valuable versus not valuable. It all boils down to provenance (events) and possession. Why is this relevant to nostr? Because the…

The German philosopher Niklas Luhmann characterized the motivation for trust is to reduce complexity. Confidence artists quickly realized that reduced complexity could be easily replaced with hidden uncertainty with odds in their favour.…

I find the spam versus non-spam discussion much more interesting.…

The last few days we saw a new level of cyber warfare: kick the adversary out of the cyber realm completely. What we witnessed as a jaw-dropping attack via a supply chain makes you wonder if you can trust any factory manufactured electronic device.…

Trust is the reverse proxy server for authority.…

If information theory is about reducing uncertainty to yield information, then ‘trust theory’ is about hiding uncertainty to yield order.…

Still no public interest use case for a CBDC…

Entropy. The book.…

Just watched "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin" My Takeaway: It's amazing how much is still the same Everyone thought we were further along then and would be further along in 10 yrs (today) Maybe that last part changes quickly in the next year or maybe

Zap fork test Zap test…

Update Here’s my report from the courtroom on what happened in the status conference today for the #Samourai case. #newstr #freesamourai #freedomtech…