Tim Bouma

My feelings about this community ❤️❤️❤️…

My Cashu wallet project. Any funds gratefully accepted and will be used to offset travel costs so I can meet the other Cashu devs in person #nostr #safebox…

On #nostr we at least can be assured that the spam is authentic. That is, the spam is actually signed by the spammer. This means that anti-spam strategies can focus on kicking the spammer out of a web of trust or relay rather than filtering the content. The big…

David Chaum demoing ecash in 1994. h/t to @calle 👁️⚡👁️ for finding this on Twitter…

In the interest of driving innovation in China, they’ve issued “waivers” and “exemptions” Interesting approach to governance… From the South China (Hong Kong) Morning Post today: It mentioned the term “three exempts” – exempting well-meaning officials who make mistakes due to lack of experience; exempting officials who make mistakes…

Just downloaded Alby Go and connected to my Alby Hub. Super slick! Congratulations to the @Alby team!…

Fascinating to see in the mainstream world of digital identity and digital wallets, they are now realizing that they need to integrate payments with identity. Especially in the EU, they are beginning that discussion as they are literally panicking that Apple/Google/Samsung are eating up the market and now…

Running a relay is easy. Dealing with attacks is hard. Sigh…

I really like this idea. I am excited about relays because they enable a ‘universal dataspace’ (as I am calling it now), where data are uniquely signed events that can exist anywhere and be replicated.…

A nice explainer on ecash from @Bitcoin Design…

I had an opportunity to participate in the reading for the ecash design guide.…