Tim Bouma

The digital wallet industry has this idea that you want to store everything in their wallet (I say ‘their’ because it’s really a government-approved app). Nothing can be further from the truth. A wallet evolved to carry coins (payment) that could easily hidden or defended on the person.

What is convenient for you, should not be convenient for the state.…

Zaps are the future.…

Aliens and Bigfoot were so much more interesting when nobody had cameras.…

Now, four handy ways to pay with #nostr #safebox The user need not care about the underlying transport safebox zap <amount> <noteid|npub|nip05> safebox pay <amount> <lnaddress>safebox send <amount&

My next project- a decentralized toaster…

I want my next car to be decentralized.…

You might not like Jason Lowery’s thesis, but if you make a perfectly liquid capital that can flee any territory at a moment’s notice, you take a major economic incentive out of warfare. Then warfare becomes solely about capturing resources, people and ideology. If the capital along with…

Can’t we just get all this energy redirected toward BTC mining?…

Only @PABLOF7z can kick off a whole new wave of innovation by staying up late on Saturday night.…

The reason I’ve become super hot on zaps is because it’s a great abstraction for generalize payment. I’m currently implementing an improvement to #nostr #safebox where the zap command detects whether the destination is a note or a npub and handles the transaction accordingly. The user need…

Posting on #nostr sometimes feels like yelling outside because that is exactly the case. You’re not in anyone’s house following someone else’s rules. No need to use your ‘inside voice’. Use your ‘outside voice’.…

Saying that your solution is the root of the problem without saying your solution is the root of the problem.…

I’m all in on the mutant ninja turtle on the left and hoping all the successes for the other turtles, too!…

The internet extends your speech to the world. Nostr extends your self to the world.…

Find your DID on BlueSky…

Attention requires time + energy.…