Tim Bouma

It’s all about the transformation of character in the face of a challenge. Every scene, every word needs to advance that. If it doesn’t, eliminate it. Readers don’t care if you can write things nicely.…

Yeah, it was a super helpful book when I was writing mine. Good luck on your journey. I’ll be following you!…

Yup. Have a read of Blueprint for a Bestseller. There is a technical analysis of ‘Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christiaan Andersen that’s all about that.…

I remember decades ago, an anecdotal statistic that 10% of GDP was dedicated to persuading people (marketing, lobbying, etc). Today, I’d say that 10% of GDP is now dedicated to asking for permission from authorities.…

Yup. In the early days of the internet ‘Be your own ISP’ never really took off, as I recall.…

It’s pretty obvious when you cut everything down to the abstract core, Bitcoin is a state like any other in that it has an ordering by rules. Whether it is a ‘real’ state depends on its ‘citizenry’ to believe in this ordering by rules enough to effect real action…

It made me realize that a casual user or merchant is not going to set up a Lightning node for payments. That’s why I switched my focus on building an e-cash based payment system that looks like Lightning.…

Me, thinking “I’m glad I got rid of those dependencies months ago.”…

Yeah. I’ve been running a node for two years and still get nervous working with it.…

We need to start thinking that Bitcoin is a state and holders are its citizens.…

I believe the ‘killer capability’ (versus feature) for #nostr is the ability to create a trusted internet identifier that can be used to pay me, message me, and which I can sign and post things that others can verify that it’s actually me. I also believe that NIP-05…

Radiohead 💪…

Valuable! Thanks, @rabble…

The big guy over at BIS just invented Bitcoin…

Bitcoin is speech, consensus, code, math, money, commodity, security or arms depending on which law you want to apply.…

Please use ecash if you can.…

Utterly amazing to see the Bank of International Settlements write a paper about what needs to be invented without acknowledging that it is already invented. They call it #finternet but we all know it’s #bitcoin…

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~Emerson, Journals…

Silent Service.…