Tim Bouma

May your root always be self-signed.…

How much of quantum is just FUD to make everyone believe someone’s ‘solution’? Asking for a friend…. #asknostr…

Your freedom is guaranteed by SHA256 and SECP256K1.…

Benjamin Franklin would arise before dawn to read voraciously for hours. I shitpost.…

Apparently we have run out of data for AI training. What next?…

This might sound counterintuitive - since #nostr is a relatively open protocol, it’s better to focus one building a singular capability that the whole network can use, rather than adding on ‘features’ which is typical of a walled-garden approach. Embrace the unix philosophy of build one thing and build…

From 1964: Marshall McLuhan to 1979: Ralph Merkle was the golden age for governance and cryptography. Everything we are building on today comes from the foundational ideas developed during that age.…

Bitcoin: In proof of work we trust. Lightning: In penalty-based protocol we trust. Cashu:: In blinded signatures we trust.…

Ralph Charles Merkle — SECRECY, AUTHENTICATION, AND PUBLIC KEY SYSTEMS, published in 1979 The precursor to proof of work. “To solve a puzzle, we must cryptanalyze the cryptogram. Once it is done, we learn the information that was “enpuzzled”, the plaintext of the cryptogram. Just as we can encrypt plaintext to…

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Modern day curse: “May a thousand LLMs be trained on your deleted data.”…

All existing payment systems are account-based. They are 100% surveillable and individually ruggable. With Cashu, it’s now possible to create a bearer-token-based payment system. This payment system is much harder to surveil and almost impossible to rug specific individuals.…

Americans gonna convert to Celsius before this happens.…

nostr + bitcoin = freedom of mind and money.…

Very cool. Thanks for this @Moss…

Bitcoin has become more than a technology, it’s become an institution.…

Great article. The financial industry is doing what the financial industry does best: financialize. If you're concerned about the long-term viability of Bitcoin you need to spend it into the real economy, not sell it to a financial exchange. Hold first, spend second, sell last.…

After studying MMT I had this key insight: If you are the currency issuer, you can do whatever the f*** you want until you burn the entire economy into the ground.…