nostr Imagine if a law enforcement official doesn’t like what you posted, so they force entry into your residence and take away your phone and other electronic devices. You’re screwed. That’s now the reality in some Western countries, where posting something that might make someone uncomfortable or be… Tim Bouma Feb 18, 2025, 12:24 PM
nostr Nice overview and summary. My gut feeling that while social media was the genesis use case for #nostr, it will be something else that will take it to the next level.… Tim Bouma Feb 17, 2025, 6:32 PM
nostr Tech is never neutral; it amplifies whoever holds the reins. For #nostr we must be vigilant that the npub holder is always the one holding their own reins.… Tim Bouma Feb 17, 2025, 12:20 PM
nostr What is really cool is that I can restore a #nostr #safebox to a random new identity, with a new lightning address on a new host. For that matter, I can restore the same #safebox to multiple lightning addresses to multiple providers - all looking completely independent but all sending and… Tim Bouma Feb 16, 2025, 9:01 PM
nostr I realized that it’s easy to plug in a Web of Trust decision point without affecting the protocol. Since you have the npub of the initiator you can decide whatever before responding. This also can be used as a credential verification protocol. If someone needs to verify your credential, Tim Bouma Feb 16, 2025, 3:44 PM
nostr Very cool. I just proved that it works. I created a #nostr #safebox on a random relay using the safebox command line tool. I deposited funds via the command line tool. I went to the web app recovery page, entered the seed phrase and the random relay of this newly… Tim Bouma Feb 16, 2025, 3:06 PM
nostr I’ve always been a fan of the institution called the House of Commons, the raucous fusion of Roman centralized procedure and Anglo-Saxon decentralization fervour. Now I am transferring that admiration of what I am calling the ‘Network of Commons’ that which is #nostr… Tim Bouma Feb 16, 2025, 11:43 AM
nostr For my project #nostr #safebox I am developing an authentication protocol which I am calling #nauth. The reason I developed this new protocol is so that either party, name initiator and recipient can initiate the protocol. I wanted to address a situation where only one party might have the ability… Tim Bouma Feb 16, 2025, 10:58 AM
bitcoin The noblest pursuit is helping others to control their funds and data. #bitcoin #nostr… Tim Bouma Feb 15, 2025, 10:48 PM
nostr Now working on #nostr #safebox recovery. The theory is that if you know your recovery phrase and the relay that your data is on, you will be able to recover your #safebox to any online service of your choosing. This gives you a measure of independence from any online service… Tim Bouma Feb 15, 2025, 10:18 PM
nostr Very cool to see this development of specialized relays. Makes me even more bullish we are on the right track with #nostr !… Tim Bouma Feb 14, 2025, 4:53 PM
nostr This is for the authentication geeks out there. In building #nostr #safebox I decided to create my own authentication protocol that takes advantage of properties unique to nostr. What's cool about it, is that the protocol is completely symmetrical as far as the actors - it doesn't Tim Bouma Feb 12, 2025, 2:30 PM
nostr The superpower of #nostr is that you can build your agent capabilities into the network that are independent of any one service. That became clear to me while building #nostr #safebox. It is in effect an agent that exists out there in the network, to be controlled by you and… Tim Bouma Feb 12, 2025, 1:13 PM
nostr I viewed it as bit of an edge case, not a very plausible scenario, but now watching it unfold in real-time - the shock takeover of government IT systems and personal data being extracted for immediate executive action. This unfolding scenario is making me even more motivated to build #nostr… Tim Bouma Feb 12, 2025, 3:24 AM
fossdem2025 Another great slide from @Constant #fossdem2025 presentation. #nostr is what it is. Deal with it. That’s the way it is. Reminds of that story about the width of a modern railway track is based on the width of two horse behinds. Deal with it, don’t make a new… Tim Bouma Feb 10, 2025, 1:57 PM
nostr Sharing a screenshot from @Constant ‘s most excellent #nostr presentation. The quote “From the margins we conquer the center” is classic Marshall McLuhan (from “medium is the message”fame). A key takeaway from the presentation is that we need to compete by means of ‘horizontal network effects’ versus competing on… Tim Bouma Feb 10, 2025, 1:43 PM
nostr ‘Signed JSON Relayed Over Websockets (SJROWS)’ - my latest attempt at trying to make #nostr sound as technically boring as possible.… Tim Bouma Feb 9, 2025, 1:52 PM
nostr This is from a paper I wrote back in 2019 (and it’s actually published in a book!) before #nostr was invented. You can see why I was floored by @fiatjaf ‘s invention because it put the ‘locus of control’ back into the hands of the user. In terms of… Tim Bouma Feb 8, 2025, 10:57 AM
nostr This is what #nostr fixes. This is a quote to the preface of the book, Re-thinking PKI, written by Stefan Brands in 2000. Brands is a similar vintage as Adam Back. He had a very promising privacy-preserving technology until it was bought by Microsoft.… Tim Bouma Feb 7, 2025, 12:16 PM
nostr The Linked experts are now proposing captchas for emails. I feel like we are approaching escape velocity with what we can achieve with #nostr.… Tim Bouma Feb 6, 2025, 8:42 PM
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