Tim Bouma

With #nostr, the power of issuance (signed events) are pushed to the edge. Every npub is equal. Only when an npub become part of a social graph does it accrue power, it on its own terms, but everybody else’s terms.…

Proof of Liquidity > Proof of Reserves. This is the way for the new banking system, where there is a global denomination (sats) and every bank is subject to a potential bank run at all points in time. The only way to survive in this ecosystem is to be

Protocol System Experience…

Mind your .io…

Give me a Simple Protocol over a Super App anytime.…

“You cannot have an encryption system which is only a little bit insecure any more than you can be a little bit pregnant. Encryption systems are either secure or they’re not – and if they’re not then it’s a question of when, rather than if, others are able…

And Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve. A Bitcoin strategic reserve can’t hold a candle to this!…

Canadians only know how to make maple syrup, canoe paddles and hockey sticks.…

You’re only one AI bot detected bad listing away from having your online business destroyed…

Remember all those crappy ‘under construction’ websites in the mid-90s? That’s the vibe of #nostr right now.…

Don’t let anyone tell you anything differently but “Mandatory Backdoor” and “Own Goal” are one and the same.…

Just returned from a ramen restaurant where the walls were adorned with framed pictures of AI-generated cats drinking beer and eating ramen. So glad that AI-generated art has finally found its true home.…

Ecash on nostr is like having wheels on your luggage.…

“We’ve leased our central nervous systems to various corporations.” Marshall McLuhan, 1964…

The supposed seat of digital power used to be being part of a browser root store program. Now it's about gaining access to the secure element in the mobile OS. Let's upend that by only requiring a self-generated nsec that you alone decide whether it