Tim Bouma

“We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.” ~ Eric Hughes, 1993…

With #bitcoin you can have a self-custodial wallet that exists on the ledger because it's maintained by multiple nodes. With #nostr, it's possible to have a self-custodial wallet that exists in the network because the data is replicated across redundant relays. In both instances,

A major update to #nostr #safebox. The code now supports multiple mints and automatically selects the keyset with the sufficient amount to make a payment. Also, I’ve done some fine-tuning to make sure safebox data is automatically replicated across relays. Finally, I’ve started to add the code…

If #nostr goes big time it will have: 1) institutional mints, 2) enterprise relays, and 3) business clients.…

I am bullish on #nostr because now I see ways to actually implement things that I simply regarded up to now as virtue-signalling bullshit. For example: data sovereignty data interoperability data stewardship data portability open platforms independence from apps, vendors, operators permissionless blah, blah … #nostr might not be perfect,

Madeira is a great place for field testing a payment solution. I did that during #SEC02 of @Sovereign Engineering with awesome results!…

My estimation is that only 10% of GDP activity is truly productive. The balance GDP activity (the other 90%) is largely dedicated to taking away the consumer or producer surplus of this 10% true productivity. Fiat makes this taking away of surplus extraordinarily efficient.…

Soon this #breach stuff will stop making the headlines and breaches will be a matter of course. This really pisses me off to an infinite degree that I never want to store any personal information unless the records of each individual is encrypted with a separate private key. I firmly…

Curious if anyone is following the NIST PQC standardization and wondering if the post-quantum threat is an issue with #nostr and/or secp256k1? #asknostr…

Money is first for capital allocation, second, for capital assets.…

If you are a #freedomtech developer, always ask yourself - 'how can my cool project be weaponized?'…

Holy f*** This is why we have anonymous ecash.…

You can't make this s*** up.…

#cloud computing enabled me to access my data independently of devices. Now, the #nostr network is enabling to access my data independently of services.…

The #nostriga FOMO is killing me! Is there a livestream?…

Doing great work in Madeira.…