Tim Bouma

NIP-01 is the only hard nip. All others are soft nips. #nostr…

It's not the truth, it's the working hypotheses that matter.…

Posting NIP-60 for handy reference while implementing. Author of NIP is @PABLOF7z…

Network routers now have a voice on the network thanks to @retired, DM for new npub !…

Any hot takes on TBD DWN?…

The key abstraction in #REST is a RESOURCE. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and

With #nostr there is no critical infrastructure…

I ❤️ cryptography.…

For me, the conceptual advance of #nostr is the signed event relay model. It is more open and powerful than the #rest api model thatwe’ve been building on for over two decades. #Rest api eventually leads to capture by a platform, while the #nostr event model is more resistant.

BSOD requires BYOB…

‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’…

🎶 If a NIP grows in the forest, does anybody implement it? 🎶…

What’s cool about this approach, is that with your nsec the ‘wallet is the network’, or vice-versa the ‘network is the wallet’. This obviates any requirement to build a specialized ‘wallet app’ (still need a client/nsec app) or any special custodial wallet capability - it can be all…

Has anybody grokked TBD Decentralized Web Nodes? IMHO, this is the closest ‘competitor’ to #nostr…

“Money is transferable freedom against a limited choice of goods. It guarantees this freedom abstractly, by means of an opportunity for exchange, on a quantitatively limited ​basis, leaving open questions of when, with whom, for which object and under what conditions the person possessing the money will carry out the…

#watchlater -…