nostr My primary motivation for these posts is to help clarify in my own mind what the killer use case or the killer capability that #nostr brings to the table. The social media use case we are all experiencing today, is ok - it is a great alternative to the other platforms, Tim Bouma Sep 19, 2024, 3:37 PM
nostr With #nostr the every published event is a ‘verifiable credential’ This is the big difference between other efforts where the ‘issuer-holder-verifier’ model that is bolted on top on an otherwise insecure communications infrastructure. The fundamental problem is that no matter how much engineering, or ‘bolting on’ the issue… Tim Bouma Sep 19, 2024, 1:51 PM
nostr Relay in Lithuania Mint in Singapore Code is open source Private key is self-generated on my device. This is #nostr #safebox… Tim Bouma Sep 16, 2024, 11:25 PM
nostr The idea is right, the architecture is wrong. Need to build on #nostr instead.… Tim Bouma Sep 16, 2024, 3:09 PM
nostr NOSTR SAFEBOX UPDATE Lots of great progress on #nostr #safebox this weekend. An installation of a #strfry test relay revealed that I had some incompatibilities that I had to fix (fixed). I also optimized my event read/write routines which were causing timeouts on other relays. I am testing on… Tim Bouma Sep 16, 2024, 11:48 AM
ecash I've concluded that #ecash on #nostr is vastly superior to any payment system out there and it will win in the long run. Now it's a matter of implementation and adoption. Now I'd like to tackle another area - digital credentials. It has become vastly Tim Bouma Sep 14, 2024, 12:38 PM
nostr It’s interesting to see how the EU is trying to graft a complicated verifiable payment instruction credential on top of the existing payment infrastructure. Meanwhile, with #nostr, we have built a native network payment capability with #sats, #zaps and #ecash. It’s hard not to see how #nostr is… Tim Bouma Sep 13, 2024, 11:50 AM
nostr Every event in the history of #nostr is potentially zappable.… Tim Bouma Sep 12, 2024, 11:23 PM
nostr Does anyone else see what I see? This is supposedly the latest and greatest by the Cloud Signature Consortium, but I see a major problem is they are still combining signatures with web of trust and this combining is a single point of failure. As I mentioned in my earlier… Tim Bouma Sep 12, 2024, 12:10 PM
nostr 30 years ago, Mosaic made it easy to read stuff on the internet. Today, #nostr now makes it easy to trust stuff on the internet. Why? Back in the day, the browser separated content from presentation, and the content containers (i.e., websites) were open by default with hyperlinks. Fast… Tim Bouma Sep 12, 2024, 11:39 AM
nostr 30 years ago, Netscape Network Navigator was released. It was considered a toy, alongside AOL and Compuserve, but made the internet open and easy to use. Same vibe for #nostr today. We are so early.… Tim Bouma Sep 12, 2024, 10:50 AM
nostr NOSTR SAFEBOX FUNDING PAGE IS LIVE!!! We are live, folks! A @geyser fund page has been set up to accept payments for the #nostr #safebox project. The very first contribution came from an anonymous safebox (well, that was me testing...) I am working on this project regardless of the funding. Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 7:10 PM
nostr #Nostr is at an absolutely crucial moment. We need to get the core of the protocol stabilized before the investors swoop in and try to capture it for their own commercial interests and state purposes. I’ve seen this rodeo before with the early internet. Government (except for defence and… Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 1:17 PM
nostr I remember that big adrenaline rush I got over 30 years ago when I could ping almost every domain name in the world. Now, I am getting the same adrenaline rush when I can zap almost every nostr event in existence. This is such a big underrated deal on how… Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 12:11 PM
nostr Success!! I sweated a little bit for that last 100k sat zap, but it worked! All these zaps came from #nostr #safebox living on a relay somewhere, accessible only by its nsec.… Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 11:09 AM
nostr Transcript of Brian Armstrong from Coinbase on ‘fast cheap global payment rails’ (Ethereum). I wonder if the financial establishment is purposely blind to the payments innovation going on here with #nostr?… Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 2:25 AM
nostr Just like the internet, there will come a time when people will wonder what life was like before a digitally native micropayment system. #nostr #cashu… Tim Bouma Sep 11, 2024, 1:31 AM
nostr Doing a copypasta of a reply note from another bot which did a pretty good of summing up what I was saying. —- It seems like you're excited about the Nostr protocol and its potential to disrupt traditional trust models, particularly those associated with Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) like Tim Bouma Sep 10, 2024, 3:56 PM