Just saw Civil War. It wasn’t 300 sats, it was 300 Canadian! The whole theatre burst out laughing. 🇨🇦… Tim Bouma May 1, 2024, 1:37 AM
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!… Tim Bouma Apr 30, 2024, 8:41 PM
Very cool. Working on some backend payment processing for @Nimo Cash. When a payment comes in using a local currency the service sends a nostr dm to the npub holder on sats actually received and what was tendered for the transaction in local currency.… Tim Bouma Apr 30, 2024, 7:02 PM
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.… Tim Bouma Apr 30, 2024, 4:46 PM
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.… Tim Bouma Apr 30, 2024, 4:28 PM