Tim Bouma

Public Health Advisory: Total Lockdown and Blackout for April 8th Solar Eclipse In light of the upcoming solar eclipse scheduled for April 8th, we are issuing an urgent public health advisory. Drawing from the unprecedented success of the lockdown measures implemented during the global pandemic, a similar approach is now…

In another context, I’ve been using the term ‘delegated web’ as a better description than ‘web of trust’. I may need to better understand the origin and delegation of authority but that doesn’t mean I trust it.…

Calvinist, here.…

Brings back memories of stupid pandemic restaurant regulations.…

Yeah, I grew up on a remote dairy farm. Lots of hard work, uncertainty and lonely. Not very romantic. I get the sentiment for homesteading, but glad I live in the city now.…

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Malicious code is the new evil.…

Good governance is the Nash Equilibrium of Collaboration and Betrayal.…

No more WWTAP (‘What Will the The Algorithm Permit’) thinking before each post.…

Nice!…

IMHO, Lightning massively increases velocity. When you look at the money velocity equation of MV=PT (M is money supply, V is velocity, P is price and T is volume of transactions), if you radically increase payment velocity, which you can with Lightning, you need less M to facilitate the…

The only thing worse than being fully-centralized is being completely self-referential.…

I love reading these ‘innovation’ documents from the traditional finance industry. This one is from the ‘Payments Innovation Jury’ where they declare ‘mobile’ is the innovative thing, and the biggest barrier to innovation is themselves not being innovative enough. I really love how they attribute their own failings and fragility…

What little amount I put into channels a few years back makes me look like a big time operator now.…