Tim Bouma

Just saw Civil War. It wasn’t 300 sats, it was 300 Canadian! The whole theatre burst out laughing. 🇨🇦…

Let’s celebrate the “shitty first draft”. Wear it with pride.…

That’s the sense I get, too. I was there in the 90s.…

I am discovering the [signed events relayed] is the secret sauce. While we are experimenting with a Twitter replacement, the far more powerful model is the open authentic (censorship resistant) orchestration of digital services. New use cases await us!…

Yep. The idea is that if you put a $ sign in front of your lightning address, it indicates that it is going to the KYC stuff (spray your personal information everywhere according to the travel rule). I kinda lost interest because it felt like a path to capture.…

I partially implemented the UMA spec. It’s a bunch of KYC and surveillance hooks hiding behind a lightning address. Initially I was interested (might still be) but it’s really an information harvesting and surveillance system grafted on to the lightning address protocol.…

Summary of the book I am currently reading, summarized by #ChatGPT "Trust and Power" is a book by Niklas Luhmann that explores two fundamental mechanisms of social regulation—trust and power—in modern societies. Luhmann, a prominent sociologist and systems theorist, delves into how these mechanisms operate and

Yeah, I never thought of having my own personal LLM to be my own “algorithm” - that really rocks!…

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This.…

Very cool! The way I understand the NIP is that an encrypted channel is set up having its own initiator and destination public keys (and private keys) known only to the exchanging parties. The keys can’t be correlated to parties, nor correlate send events with receive events. #nostr FTW!

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"To show trust is to anticipate the future."…

@Nimo Cash…

As I recall, a UTXO doesn’t actually exist anywhere. It’s a tallying up of transactions that gets recorded in a database, but that doesn’t mean it exists in that database. That was the genius of Satoshi, an alternative to the account model.…

OMG this book is so good! This is the philosophical counterpart to Jason Lowery's Softwar. The basic idea put forth by Niklas Luhmann is that trust is required to reduce complexity and power is required to maintain the trust structure. Nothing to do with morals at all and

"Trust always involves an extrapolation from the information available on the object of trust" ~ Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power…