Tim Bouma | Independent Thinker | Pug Owner | Published Author | #SovEng Alum | #Cashu OG | #OpenSats Grantee https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/ 3000 posts
It's amazing to think that I can travel to Europe once again at almost half the cost as I did earlier this year.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 2:43 PM
Pretty sure Apple just stumbled on the concept of an ‘app store’. After all, it’s just a signed package manager. Apple recognized the potential and locked down their ecosystem to funnel everything through it. Meanwhile, Windows was happy with random downloads and install executables as they were busy shipping… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 2:33 PM
Bitcoin harnessed time to energy Nostr harnessed integrity to people. Energy and People are the basis of our digital global economy and only Bitcoin and Nostr can serve this economy in a fair, uncensorable way.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 2:22 PM
nostr Good article, but I feel everyone is grappling with wrong models and trying to force-fit them into a new reality. With #nostr there is no such thing as cross border data flows. You are your own governance.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 1:18 PM
nostr The ECB researchers are paid not to understand what’s going on #nostr… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 11:53 AM
nostr #Nostr is the only network I know of where you can monetize your own content without anyone’s permission.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 10:47 AM
Like the ‘Economy’ a UTXO doesn’t really exist. It’s just a bunch of transactions added up. Fortunately, a UTXO is verifiable.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 10:19 AM
untraceable sats->LN->Safebox->Relay->Safebox->LN->sats #untraceable… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 10:02 AM
nostr This is so cool. I gotta try this. I am planning something similar for #nostr #safebox where you register the npub and links an address to receive payments.… Tim Bouma Nov 13, 2024, 9:34 AM
nostr This thing is starting to feel real! Over the past few days I have sent almost 1M sats through the payment network as zaps, dms, ln invoices and cashu tokens. #nostr #safebox… Tim Bouma Nov 12, 2024, 10:20 PM
All payment protocols can eventually be reduced to: send <amount> <address> <optional comment>… Tim Bouma Nov 12, 2024, 5:47 PM
From Tuur Demeester on Twitter. It shows how easy it is for the ECB to fudge money and reports ECB bombshell: On Nov 4—the night of US election—the authors of the highly aggressive anti-#bitcoin paper softened the language in their concluding paragraph: In the original it said: Tim Bouma Nov 12, 2024, 5:03 PM
