Tim Bouma

A big laugh...…

This interview is soooo.... good, if you want to have a good overview of cryptography. A great discussion on what the NSA might really know. Straight from one of the original founders.…

mathematicians: study hard problems computer scientists: create useful things from hard problems engineers: build things that don't crash…

#Nostr reads and feeds in one app with their own tab is sheer genius. Congrats to the @primal folks for doing this. It brings #nostr to another level /cc @miljan…

zap test…

Every npub can be a payment endpoint by default.…

So true. This is the biggest legal grift out there. Especially annual subscriptions where they renew (charge your card) in advance of the renewal date. A certain domain name registrar I use does this and it’s annoying as hell, because they don’t notify you in advance, claiming that…

We need to flip the 'Zero Trust Model' to the 'Full Authority Model'. Indeed that's what Bitcoin and Nostr are - full authority models because you along have control over your private key.…

Testing zaps, please stand by…

The most powerful entity on the internet will be any self-generated npub that can publish its own notes across multiple relays and receive payments on its own terms.…

A great four-minute video by Brett Scott in defence of physical cash. His book ‘Cloud Money’ was a big surprise for me - he advocated for the defence of cash and made me realize that ‘cashless’ payment systems are a societal capture play. His book also made me aware of…

Eventually every handle from every ecosystem/platform will resolve to a sovereign npub that can send and receive zaps for universal payment. Below, is an example of zapping a domain name address using the system I built that supports NIP-05. But it could easily be Twitter, BlueSky, etc. The…

@El_monty grateful for the #monstr library! It’s what I am using to build #nostr #safebox.…