Tim Bouma

#nostr is actually an open economic network in that it facilitates trade and trust, through signed events and zaps. The special thing about #nostr, unlike other economic networks is that nobody can get in between your and your counterparty to f*** things up for their own benefit. It someone asks…

So, is #nostr still needed? #asknostr…

Someone’s gotta tell Cory Doctorow about #nostr…

cash == transferable credit == transferable proof of work…

If #nostr would be characterized as an infrastructure, what would we call it?…

Be it resolved that #NostrDay shall be observed on the 7th day of November annually. If in favour of or against this motion, zap, boost, quote, react accordingly.…

All the more reason to observe November 20th as #nostrday…

I now see the possibility of enabling every npub to issue their own ecash tokens, instead of relying on a third-party mint. This has tremendous value because every npub can issue its own transferable credit notes (cash) and eliminate the mint as a counterparty. Of course, it has to…

If everybody can publish their own events via #nostr, it should be easy for them to mint their own ecash. Thus pushes the issue of trust right to the edge.…

Imagine if every npub was its own mint and relay by default.…

“The Metaphor is the Matrix.”…

In the context of asymmetric cryptography, McLuhan’s figure and ground concept can be applied to explore both the explicit function and the underlying influence of this cryptographic system on security, trust, and digital communication. Figure: The Encryption and Decryption Process The figure in asymmetric cryptography is the primary function—

In McLuhan’s media theory, the terms figure and ground describe the relationship between the main focus of a medium (the “figure”) and the surrounding context or environment in which it operates (the “ground”). McLuhan borrowed these terms from Gestalt psychology, which studies how we perceive objects in relation to…

“The price we pay for special technological extensions, whether wheel, alphabet or computer, is that these massive extensions of sense become closed systems.” Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media…

“Money is a metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.” Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media…

In McLuhan’s media theory, the terms figure and ground describe the relationship between the main focus of a medium (the “figure”) and the surrounding context or environment in which it operates (the “ground”). McLuhan borrowed these terms from Gestalt psychology, which studies how we perceive objects in relation to…

Fact: Squirrels can fall from any height because the terminal velocity they reach is not enough to kill them on impact.…

We Are the Digitals (after T.S. Eliot) We are the Digitals, wandering in webs, A scattered tribe of signals, sparks, and threads. No voices here, but hums and hisses, Algorithms sing to our sleepless glances, Shadows caught in glowing screens, Our faces lit in quiet trance. In fragmented worlds,