Tim Bouma

With #nostr, everyone is their own superuser. This model is radically different than the platform fortress models that we have today, where every (usually commercial) platform ends up being a feudal system of absolute domination and rent extraction. #nostr flips the old modesl on their head because every npub is…

On this day, July 6th, 1917 Canada votes on conscription- more boys to the front.…

With #nostr, the network is the custodian.…

Current Global Order Apple Government Google Government Everybody else.…

Did get shut down?…

Still fawning over my most excellent website generated automatically.…

Have a look at - it just went live yesterday. Also have a look at login with Nostr DM - it is beautifully simple and I am wondering why I never saw this possibility until now. In short, you enter in your nip05 address, it resolves the pubkey sends you an encrypted…

Incredible.…

Login with NIP-05 Npub DM is all I want for authentication now.…

Massively excellent! And, holy f***, the Login with Npub DM is the only way I want to login now. Great work! Congratulations @brugeman @Karnage…

All this talk about separating money from the state (which I agree with), but I think the far more important and immediate imperative is to separate money from identity. With the shift to electronic payment systems, the unintended consequence was to combine identity with money into the ‘account’ concept which…

“Blind signatures cannot prevent or discourage the unauthorized lending of certificates. This drawback by itself renders the blinding technique useless for the majority of certificate applications” Re-reading Brands book on certificates. Came across this statement above. This is the superpower for ecash.…

NPUBs could replace IBANs (International Bank Account Numbers) for cross-border payment.…