Tim Bouma

Wow. “I am the house now.” What a zinger of a quote. https://image.nostr.build/b7d90cd9ca982b4fca049927cb6eecf31f4ee11750d1d7a305648e7f0a6da602.jpg

You will enjoy this https://watermark02.silverchair.com/book_9780262385046.pdf

Good Afternoon https://blossom.primal.net/cb8ec4a28bc9ddf5dd4b3fdf927fd5dbf043f526f4afd74e3bd768416d307f09.jpg

Good Afternoon https://blossom.primal.net/3c9949609d4caf06d735039dcdb4267e3d8567ec0d394a0aad89d10bcee9e41d.jpg

My historical reading for the day https://download.ssrn.com/11/04/01/ssrn_id1800812_code758931.pdf

GN https://blossom.primal.net/e4ee4936e98b30d297142367cff8a9ee5f9b21c79a96e5ed369da3e3383d8b40.jpg

If you want to learn more about Clear, you can read about it here: https://trbouma.github.io/clear/

I think this is pretty cool. The next phase of my #safebox project, I’ve decoupled the Cashu mint and Cashu protocol from Bitcoin/Lightning and now en...

hydronym

They get it by email newsletter. As for #nostr, I have about 5 (maybe 4) people who are interested.

I have several hundred subscribers.

Another essay for the normies. https://trbouma.substack.com/p/the-thing

The End of Software Engineering. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.05608v1

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YYJ https://blossom.primal.net/16c8acad8d4b266e75c43fc433cc28c75e6e571eb4a3f5c98509099b5454c2be.jpg

Cathedral Grove.

True love is like a big tree... https://blossom.primal.net/aaf19e937db1b7b9c0fd32c949742839433445f35d08b879c74da40971f6df9b.jpg

GM https://blossom.primal.net/6ebe0ceb6c5ad8f41ae70706d5e937ddb49ff5ef91dca33789f3e0f503980928.jpg

GN https://blossom.primal.net/9bdae776b216538fc2b6f79d72691afcdb9e92d98286cb96d286519debfe8b2d.jpg

Good Afternoon! https://blossom.primal.net/426598343d5810ebbb837fd5eeebda615b00833edfac624bbff538fcec16c674.jpg

GN https://blossom.primal.net/1fdb1ee094ea5248617d4e3e4c4548ea2b271500cfdf9b377f35cbbf98461d53.jpg

Bahahaha!

Same vibe as many a nostr social app?

Technical sock debt. And, I always maintain that wearing improperly-paired socks is the first sign of moral decay

Downtime increases my FOMO.

Superb! I am looking for an indigenous community to pilot. The latest piece of the puzzle I am working on is the ability to issue their own credits fo...

I had fun writing this. When Records Stopped Smelling Like Livestock https://trbouma.substack.com/p/when-records-stopped-smelling-like

Very cool!

For fun, I had ChatGPT translate a page from the Gutenberg Bible to see if I could actually read it. https://image.nostr.build/608e2c793fb49bb80b2153...

I additionally wrap a NIP-44 with an additional key that is stored separately https://github.com/trbouma/safebox-acorn/blob/main/docs/PROTECTED-RECORD...

No idea.

Floci https://github.com/floci-io/floci

The capture continues... https://www.biometricupdate.com/202608/nist-picks-11-contactless-fingerprint-biometrics-providers-for-certification-testing...

Nobody cared about tcp/ip until the web was invented. Nobody will care about nostr until <insert here> is invented.

‘Unprovoked knife attack on bagpiper’ sounds like an oxymoron. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/unprovoked-attack-wont-keep-bagpiper-down-9.7312...

https://www.nassiben.com/video-based-crypta

#bikestr https://blossom.primal.net/742925f63491e66aa5bee3c5ff1977ff6c28efa2305e4931de97f332be925d26.jpg

Need to add as part of the camping kit. https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/futuristic-mosquito-zapping-laser-now-available-to-buy-video-shows-d...

GN https://blossom.primal.net/56affb45851aeac5ae492be56ebe9156766b7a80fa1838f15e960948a2e75b14.jpg

By nostr:nprofile1qqspa3z5wdxuhah72jgpecjup37xhjj7mky5gdqkwc06msep6wxlzwgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtc8y38z...

I just zapped from Damus and Primal

The future…. https://image.nostr.build/7bbd1845c027a418a529e1d9dd5074847a025cbd57802b30c067a958e57dd94c.jpg

Very cool to see the zaps come in on the brand new #safebox #acorn system https://blossom.primal.net/1aa9eff988d9f559b0d62cc7f48bc341e480216c5b...

GM!

GM https://blossom.primal.net/508d752d1242960f2b8febed376f6bab57e5c41b68dd1aa31bbd9b5ff4a330fe.jpg

validate out-of-band

Price is exactly what someone is willing to pay.

Thanks! I just vibed and deployed my own blossom server! https://trbouma.github.io/grove/

Nice! Gotta try!

Markdown + JSON just show up to do the job remarkably well. Human-readable while machine-digestible.

https://generativeai.pub/anthropics-engineer-said-kill-markdown-here-s-what-he-actually-meant-36bee00c0ca2

Zork https://github.com/orgs/the-infocom-files/repositories

I think we are reaching the end of an era where a mere difference opinion was considered as an attack on the righteous.

Any advice on which #blossom server to use? No nonsense, reliable is what I’m looking for. #asknostr nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx55...

Zap test to acorn

Lessons from China The Economist (North America) Aug 08, 2026 AI will test societies’ capacity to reinvent themselves. Communist China will not find...

This is a great diagram. If, on the left hand side, you apply with AI, you’ve unlocked a superpower. If you insist on doing things on the right ha...

Attacks on lattice cryptography https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/pqc-at-a-cross-roads-keep-your-ecc-seatbelt-for-a-while-longer-1...

Nice! I need to dig out my esp32s and get this running.

'My password is too strong.' 'My key is too high-entropy.' Said no user ever.

This is cool. Funds from an #acorn sent to a Bitcoin exchange. Acorn->Cashu->Lightning->Exchange https://blossom.primal.net/af69154d06d993a6359...

For those interested and given recent event, I now have a SECURITY.md document for #safebox #acorn. You can read it here: https://github.com/trbouma/...

Now the other way #nostr #safebox #acorn  https://blossom.primal.net/a6d9c6e0453d22c9884ef0ecd60699a14498f76c04a8cc80660ed0b94bf511a2.png

Looks and tastes like Lightning, but ecash and relays behind the scenes #nostr #safebox #acorn https://blossom.primal.net/6f5bb2a2d2c30372ba1bea800f40...

I dig that steady streams of sats coming in while working on #nostr #safebox. The current #safebox deployment is chugging away but now in legacy mode ...

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Thanks!

Agree. For anyone who has studied engineering, this is the natural (not necessarily welcome) cycle.

The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) has been in place for decades. I just assumed that hardware wallet vendors would be following this....

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I was wondering this too. Also wondering if they follow the rule in the drug trade: ‘Don’t get high on your own supply.’

That was me trying to add a passphrase wallet before I went ‘dafuk that’s no good’

Used car salesman > Hardware wallet sponsor

https://open.substack.com/pub/ecosystemoperator/p/money-is-a-coordination-technology?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3r59

GN https://blossom.primal.net/64b75ad064c210a29f4ce33a031d19daf5ead5c34031f0c0d6180952e5fe60af.jpg

Don't influence. Verify.

Always pick a slow news day to announce the new phase of a project. Introducing #safebox #acorn - once released, it will be a separately installable ...

Unfortunately, the big lesson here is - don't upgrade hardware wallet firmware unless the company has gone through a third-party audit that is signed ...

My bet this attack was weeks in the making. Once the attackers assembled enough private keys for high value utxos they executed. My biggest disappoi...

Me neither. Just trying to recover at the moment.

https://www.aidatapress.com/news/software-architecture-fundamentals-ai-matt-erman-blackboard

if air-gapped: still not secure

stay humble and roll dice.

I am investigating this. I have old phones kicking around in my drawer. https://cupcakewallet.com/

Need to check out https://cupcakewallet.com/

GN https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/predictable-rng-fallback-and-32-bit-reseed-in-coldcard-firmware

This popped back into my feed. I had forgotten about it. It is a simple and good playbook to follow. https://image.nostr.build/1a144f2aa115eac03da7b3...

Yeah, it was your token-burning experience that prompted this post.

An agent is just a loop with permissions.

GN https://blossom.primal.net/8c58c6b5f9c57605bc1766dbfd29988b86a4f493dc0cf7eb995d97eada4a5822.jpg

Don’t expect the fabric to be the finished garment.

GN https://blossom.primal.net/f091b448eb0a78e81a2f4b3183dca59e5a02afbef678c93a0236cf26e5cdf62f.jpg

My emotional support this morning https://blossom.primal.net/14bcf11555b490c0c0e37d17cb8c1b416ede15435d4f94ef2afb9f415be3b34a.jpg

HTTP QUERY https://medium.com/@TusharKanjariya/http-just-got-a-new-method-that-fixes-a-problem-ive-hit-for-years-f82909d35fb4

Wildfire smoke warning. Going outside right now is the equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes. How’s your night going?

https://news.enterpriseonchain.com/p/swift-never-moved-money-its-new-blockchain-doesn-t-either

Relays and services are useful, but the signed event is what matters.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a71795207/operation-rubicon/

GM https://blossom.primal.net/20cae3b9bae26974f2e092cb0f9e17da80ff346ef28cad6c7ebb2626d4311471.jpg

Too Much Crypto https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf