Tim Bouma

Couldn’t say it any better: #Nostr is a free market protocol.…

Watching how BlueSky seems to be taking off, and yes, it will likely run into the same issue as Twitter, I am seeing #nostr not as a direct competitor but rather as an independent publishing and payment protocol. The ability to create and receive payments without permission is nostr’s…

They don’t build’em like they used to.…

Self-signed pubkeys and bearer tokens are the way of the future.…

Be the technology you want to be!…

Every once in awhile you need to sweat the small details to understand the big picture. #hackpdfsignatures…

Tokens…

I finally figured out why applying digital signature to PDFs is so damned annoying. The reason is that you need to associate a certificate with every digital signature. You can create your own self-signed certificate to do the signing, but the verification process ‘fails’ because the certificate is not…

This is the biggest lesson I learned from Marshall McLuhan - new technology is weaponized before it is adopted broadly. Don’t let anyone let you believe otherwise because their motive is to weaponize the very technology that they want you to believe is not a weapon.…

The simpler the protocol, the better chance it has existing despite the legal system. #nostr…

Nobody should know the value of your private key.…

Thanks to @21 ₿ased Shoes for the lesson on why barefoot is better and how regular shoes can mess up our feet, bodies and brains (our feet are sensors, telling us what’s going on with the ground. regular shoes mess up that sensor capability). At this meetup, we started…

The Amish got fines of about $300k CAD because they didn’t have the app when crossing the border. They don’t even have phones……