nostr Another thing that #nostr does is that it decouples the concept of a ‘certificate’. Shortly after the invention of asymmetric cryptography, the ‘certificate’ was invented which was basically a signed public key with some metadata. This gave rise to that very powerful industry, PKI, where they made you believe that… Tim Bouma Jun 29, 2024, 4:02 PM
nostr Once again, I am becoming more confident that #nostr and its signed event model is the right way to go. This time around, the model has helped to clarify the distinction between #identifier and #identity. We’ve all been guilty of using these terms interchangeably, if not as equivalent. I… Tim Bouma Jun 29, 2024, 12:32 PM
My boys managed to canoe 55km on the Ottawa River today. This is their campsite on an island in the middle of the river. Another 24km to go tomorrow!… Tim Bouma Jun 29, 2024, 12:46 AM
ABNF notation for possible governance models: governance = "Lord of the" pick-your-poison pick-your-poison = "Flies" / "Rings"… Tim Bouma Jun 28, 2024, 11:07 PM
The internet gave us open communication. Bitcoin gave us open money. Nostr gives us self-generated identifiers (npubs). Cashu gives us blinded bearer tokens (Cashu tokens). Nostr and Cashu, which build on the internet and Bitcoin, give everyone the sovereign socioeconomic capability to trust and trade, independently of any platform, Tim Bouma Jun 28, 2024, 9:24 PM
