Tim Bouma

“Once a new technology comes into a social milieu it cannot cease to permeate that milieu until every institution is saturated.” Marshall McLuhan…

This is a very telling statement of how hostile things will get. “Asking governments to renounce on taxes is as naïve as hoping that Central Banks will invest in Bitcoin. Both organizations are very skilled at survival and gained independence from politics a long time ago: their components would surely…

"100 proof" refers to the strength of an alcoholic beverage. In the United States, the proof system measures the alcohol content of spirits. The proof number is double the percentage of alcohol by volume (ABV). So, 100 proof means the beverage is 50% alcohol by volume. This system

Every IoT device, if it can store a #nsec, should be able to send and receive payments by default. That’s my vision for #nostr #safebox…

Excited to see where this goes. Intrigued to see the Bible published as a series of #nostr events.…

Wow.…

I am building #nostr #safebox Every machine should be a spending and savings machine. Coming to a command line near you $>safebox…

This very cool. Replicating signed events (notes, etc.) opens up a whole new world of possibility. What hyperlinks did for the web, signed events can do for whatever we want to call it (don’t have a good name yet).…

#Bitcoin is about self-signed transactions that can’t be double-spent. #Nostr is about self-signed events that can’t be censored.…

#Nostr #Bitcoin meetup happening in Ottawa, on October 28th.…

Anybody hear of this protocol?…

Great insights about web of trust…

“The open society is open by virtue of a uniform typographic educational processing that permits indefinite expansion by any group by additive means.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964…