Tim Bouma

Keep these photos coming and we’ll have to visit!…

I’ve been saying that the other social media platforms are like open-air prisons where the warden changes the rules on a whim. The prisoners don’t know how to react other than to protect themselves leading to nasty behaviour. In #nostr, it’s completely different - everyone is their…

Watch out for the UNRELAYERS……

A fine poetic choice of words. Could not be better stated.…

‘Notes signed and transmitted by relays’ #nostr…

#Nosthow…

The golden age of decentralized government was A.D. 900-1066 (yeah, just before the Norman Conquest). The centralized government ‘innovation’ that William the Conqueror introduced was the King’s exclusive right to land, obliterating the Anglo Saxon landholding tradition from which rights originated. In the Anglo Saxon tradition - you…

A Chaumian mint removes the ability for anyone to impose (or weaponize) ‘duty of care’ requirements. If the mint doesn’t know who the individual holder is, it’s impossible to ‘care’ for that individual holder, only the collective set of holders. That means each holder has to take on…

Canadian productivity is about 30% less than US GDP per capita. We are not recovering as quickly, declining in relation to US.…

This.…

Wergild FTW…

This day in 1917 (St. Paddy’s Day) the Dominion of Canada issues a new dollar note with the likeness of Princess Patricia.…

The most pernicious control tactic that state can impose is a ‘duty of care’ obligation on its citizens. In other words, shifting the burden of state accountability to those who are least equipped to comply and then enforce when they fail to uphold the ‘duty of care’.…

That’s a better twist than having him declare that the judge was incompetent.…

A key innovation of the #bitcoin network and carried over to #nostr was putting the control of of identity outside the control of the network and directly into the hands of users. Oh, and also signing everything with those identities and only relaying signed messages/transactions.…