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Tim Bouma

About four years ago, I went deep on central banking and monetary operations. Just over two years ago #Cashu came along, then I discovered #nostr. I realized you could build an entirely new monetary and payments infrastructure using Bitcoin as the base layer, and something that could rival the likes of SWIFT, BIS, etc. and which could handle a sat micropayment as effectively as a final settlement in the millions or billions.

So I set out to build it to prove it. So far, it does not disappoint. I am now doing zaps of 1 sat to a record I set yesterday of $250 USD. All with the same tech!

#nostr #safebox Hear me out.…

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