Tim Bouma | Independent Thinker | Pug Owner | Published Author | #SovEng Alum | #Cashu OG | #OpenSats Grantee https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/ 3000 posts
nostr I am trying to come up with some generic slides of why anyone should care about #nostr. These two slides compare ‘Traditional Platform Architecture’ to what I am calling the ‘New Protocol Architecture’ (also known as #nostr) - you can read the bullet points. Pls let me know if this makes… Tim Bouma Jul 12, 2024, 11:49 AM
Yesterday while grocery shopping with my wife, I received a 100k zap ($80 CAD). I showed it to my wife and we celebrated by buying an extra rack of ribs. What a time to be alive!… Tim Bouma Jul 12, 2024, 11:24 AM
I had a Freudian slip today: I typed “threat vendors” instead of “threat vectors”.… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 3:54 PM
nostr It was the Privacy figure in the Bitcoin white paper that stopped me cold years ago, and when I realized it was a radically different architecture. I have tried to replicate in the figure below the radical essential difference between the traditional platform models and the ‘new protocol model’ that… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 1:55 PM
nostr #nostr is signed events relayed. That’s it. That’s the thing. Once verified, you decide whether to trust the event, or not. That’s your job.… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 12:03 PM
nostr ‘Trust over IP’ is really ‘Signed Events Relayed over IP’ - thanks to #nostr… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 11:20 AM
nostr #nostr feels like the internet over 30 years ago, when packet-based networking (TCP/IP) started to take over the world. Now it’s Signed Events Relayed over IP (SER/IP)… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 11:01 AM
nostr In the future, these kind of things will be signed and relayed via #nostr .… Tim Bouma Jul 11, 2024, 10:47 AM
nostr ‘The middle doesn’t matter.’ - a quote that should apply to good #nostr relay design.… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 3:29 PM
npub I think NIP-05 is super-powerful because it gives an external trust context to an #npub. Some might argue, it is insecure, but that’s really a function of how the domain is managed and how you decide to trust. NIP-05 also gives a really good bridge to… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 2:10 PM
We need to name a law for this: 'After a time, all platforms go against their users.' Or something like: 'All users become eventually subjects of the platform.'… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 12:51 PM
authentication I love the elegance of using npubs for solving the #authentication problem. Having an identifier that natively supports encrypted messaging and signing can vastly reduce the complexity of login (#authentication)solutions and eliminate entirely the need to store passwords. But this still does not solve the #identity problem. If you… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 11:29 AM
Browsers (and certificate authorities) have become a necessary evil. Time to change that.… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 2:37 AM
nostr It’s refreshing that nobody on #nostr really talks about (or really cares about) #AI. For sure, it’s a great tool, but on those other platforms hardly a swipe goes by without seeing a post on the existential threats, etc. of #AI. My take is that here on #nostr… Tim Bouma Jul 10, 2024, 12:32 AM
nostr Signed Events Relayed (SRE) is as big of a deal as Proof of Work (POW). #nostr… Tim Bouma Jul 9, 2024, 11:53 PM
