Tim Bouma | Independent Thinker | Pug Owner | Published Author | #SovEng Alum | #Cashu OG | #OpenSats Grantee https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/ 3000 posts
The missing piece of the web infrastructure is the ability to publish signed events.… Tim Bouma Aug 10, 2024, 1:26 PM
nostr Web 1.0: email server Web 2.0 web server Web ♾️: event server (#nostr)… Tim Bouma Aug 10, 2024, 1:23 PM
One of my favourite books on legal history- over 1200 years, describing the life and times of the day and the legal system that came as a result. It puts everything in perspective- that the modern state as we know it - is still a fleeting phenomenon. There are some really… Tim Bouma Aug 9, 2024, 12:53 PM
You might not lawmaking, but you have to give credit to the English Law Commission for creating this breathtakingly short bill on digital assets. In short the bill recognizes that digital assets can exist independently of legal strictures (in contrast to the other ‘things’) and should be regarded separately as… Tim Bouma Aug 9, 2024, 12:37 PM
Bitcoin is a fixed-gear track bike; ecash is a multi-gear road bike. Both translate my power to motion but are designed for very different conditions. I would never dream of taking my fixed-gear bike on a ride through the mountains; likewise, I would never take my road… Tim Bouma Aug 8, 2024, 1:14 PM
Coming soon, from a digital nation state near you. “Your rights have been updated. Click OK to continue.”… Tim Bouma Aug 8, 2024, 12:16 PM
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller… Tim Bouma Aug 8, 2024, 12:11 PM
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - R. Buckminster Fuller… Tim Bouma Aug 8, 2024, 8:58 AM
"Our world is not divided by race, colour, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, colour, gender, or religion" - Nelson Mandela.… Tim Bouma Aug 8, 2024, 1:47 AM
In the beginning there was HOSTS.TXT and it was administered centrally.… Tim Bouma Aug 7, 2024, 6:21 PM
sec02 FWIW, I did some real-world stuff in #SEC02 as part of @Sovereign Engineering By the end of the cohort, and after several weeks of field-testing and refinement, I was using my wallet (and payment system) as a matter of routine. The system uses ecash under the hood (thanks… Tim Bouma Aug 7, 2024, 1:10 PM
nostr A direct portal (more like a wormhole) of what it’s like being in Venezuela. No algorithm to screen out. Also, authentic because I got to know this account months ago as an accomplished photographer before things went south. This is #nostr… Tim Bouma Aug 7, 2024, 12:49 PM
