Tim Bouma

AI is digital fungi. Bitcoin is digital algae. Together they form digital lichen.…

SMS should stand for Sovereign Micropayment Systems.…

'Trusted' just means 'Known' and 'Authorized'.…

#Bitcoin quietly hacked the entire fiat monetary system by introducing the concept of future scarcity into the digital realm. Bitcoin quietly came under the radar of most, if not all policymakers and established itself before there was anything of major concern or value. The only viable fiat response to #Bitcoin…

Describe how AI and ecash are symbiotic, like lichen. #chatgpt ———- AI (Artificial Intelligence) and eCash (digital or electronic cash) can be likened to the symbiotic relationship found in lichen, where two distinct entities work together to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem. Here’s how: AI as the “Fungus” (Mycobiont) • Just…

Full credit for popularizing the idea of an email address being the payment address of choice. Now we need to move on to open networks.…

'Your phone has automatically updated last night. Please accept your revised rights.'…

Don’t confuse collective good with central planning.…

Gratitude!…

You know innovation is running its course when Apple plans to introduce a foldable phone as large as a laptop.…

There’s a very nice petting zoo south of the city, where they slaughter all the animals just before winter.…

Bitcoin wasn’t an invention, so much so as it was a ‘discovery’ of an insight that, underlying the ultimate root of human value is ‘future scarcity’ (or, put more bluntly, ‘our death’). The corresponding ‘mechanism’ was the declining issuance rate into the future, held constant to an approximate 10…

The two digital power structures that can be effectively dismantled with #nostr: corporate platforms and certificate authorities.…

Voice from above. Energy from below.…

Bitcoin is a liquidity network. Nostr is a legitimacy network.…