Tim Bouma

BASIC just died.…

Someone needs to talk to Cory Doctorow… “Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there. While there are

testing zaps, please stand by…

Very cool use case for zaps.…

Very cool. It’s a njump.me link to an event which you scan via your camera app; it asks to open to your default app, which hopefully you can zap from. I also tried directly from a Lightning wallet, it got confused. We may need to standardize something so…

@Chimera Hello!…

Friendly reminder that LinkedIn contacts are not your contacts. Tried to connect someone via LinkedIn at a meetup but we were both forced to upgrade.(we did not). We connected via #nostr instead (I onboarded him)…

Don’t bellyache, build.…

Totally excited that I got an instance of ditto up and running. Even more excited that I can use the relay as the backend for #nostr #safebox But I still need help to grok how I can use this to make a real difference for a community. Advice, examples, most…

Nothing is official until the money comes through! Well, it came through! 🙏🤝 Official announcement coming soon!…

BTW, the banks (not the central banks) hate the M0 layer (banknotes), because it forces them to hold dirty cash in their safes and convert their liabilities (M1) into M0 which can be used outside their payment system. Banks also hate CBDCs because it disintermediates people from their systems, and…

Don’t trust, control your authority.…

Well this is f***ing cool! I spun up #ditto server from @Alex Gleason 🐍 and used the in-built relay to send payments from a #nostr #safebox. Worked flawlessly!…

@Alex Gleason 🐍 I set up ditto. Super easy, but I can’t get past the human verification test. I tried numerous browsers. Any idea what the issue is? My instance is here:…