Tim Bouma

My npub1 is my bc1

It’s at 99.999997% now.

eSIM for your phone. Works globally and you top up your balance as required via Bitcoin/Lightning. Costs me less than a buck USD per day to use. If I ...

Social media is on its way to being 100% captured by regulators and governments.

Soon!

https://thenewstack.io/vibe-coding-ceos-executives-ai-agents/

wen dostr? https://www.hackster.io/news/dos-1-00-source-code-hits-github-6677a27dd0d1

I call it Secure DMs

Digital trade and social media has to work across this geopolitical minefield. If you think building a platform will be the solution, you’re just bu...

A presentation on PQC https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-digitalisation-of-trade-documents-and-processes_64872f25-en/full-report/component-7.h...

Rail bridge crossing. https://blossom.primal.net/df3215313f8742dcb311975a48b17214f0d6fb0cc095ddfb3616a5675e86f6b8.mp4

The trails are still underwater. https://blossom.primal.net/98a5851eed25b2f9acf8f5ed7683ea76baa3e6bf42d52888ab5ee476dc5b8b3f.jpg

Cool. I am happy to use “x” if that is the convention.

Pirate or be Pirated.

“Pirated States of America”

I don’t see “x” in NIP-69

Oh, cool. I did not know that. Let me read up.

If you put a towel over your head and the laptop, you should be ok.

All I am doing is attaching a transferable title record to a pdf. Right now I have to trust a blockchain and a platform that uses it. I want to elimin...

Proposed new #superpower for the nostr protocol - using the “o” tag to store the sha256 digest of any original document/byte array (pdf, jpg, bin, etc...

Logic computes. Law recognizes.

That time of year where the river is like a fast moving lake. Another couple of weeks before the crest passes, where the water level reaches and surpa...

I’ve been busy working on #nostr #safebox as part of the nostr:npub1healthsx3swcgtknff7zwpg8aj2q7h49zecul5rz490f6z2zp59qnfvp8p Web of Trust #hackathon...

I've been busy with #nostr #safebox, participating in the nostr:nprofile1qqstu7l4mcrgc8vy9mf55lp8q5r7e9q0t6j3vuw06p32jh5ap9pq6zsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7...

Yeah, from the book, Beyond Belief. The notion of hope is completely secularized, but something that faith communities have known for a long time. Als...

I just learned that wild rats drown faster than domesticated rats because the domesticated rats expect to be saved and don’t give up as quickly.

Thought of the day: Global ordering and key rotation are ultimately external to any decentralized protocol. Can be mitigated by proof of work or soc...

Two kings… https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-king-charles-annex-canada-new-book-9.7153681

Methodologies https://image.nostr.build/ee613fb4a5d5ab0136a5ee47f518b3610fd3c8c8f5de0a62f68d9dcaa2453012.jpg

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-rules-nasa-uses-to-write-code-that-cant-fail-your-ai-tools-break-all-of-them-8d0377998efb

Lousy weather but I was keen to test the roadworthiness of my new tubeless tire install. #bikestr https://blossom.primal.net/90935f393e5aeb859e40...

You can’t create sats out of AI.

GMm

Yeah, you’re right.

Nostr does this quite well as a public relay service.

https://image.nostr.build/b630b3f10ed9f9dc58bd7b55d030688b38d26b2db7021ebc63a1037a1b797714.jpg

Ethereum as a public bulletin board… https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/03/12/vitalik-buterin-says-ethereum-should-be-used-as-a-simple-digital-bulle...

Some working definitions coming out of yesterday’s nostr:npub1healthsx3swcgtknff7zwpg8aj2q7h49zecul5rz490f6z2zp59qnfvp8p #wotathon call. Assertion: A...

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

“the barrier for hackers and hostile nation states is no longer Signal’s gold standard encryption. The vulnerability is some agentic system that is bu...

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9615

LOL. Is this a real photo?

We need to remind ourselves is that the most-consumed narrative, fiction - is fake.

Pretty sure that Aristotle concluded that the function of the brain is to cool blood. https://open.substack.com/pub/ellennoraburns/p/your-brain-is-no...

Nope. The recipient immediately clears by swapping the token with the mint for a new proof. It doesn’t touch Lightning at all. As for the QR code, it ...

Thx. I am a big fan of the Lightning Address specification and NIP-05, so I built my whole system to use this for easy naming, but not necessarily dep...

Good article about the (non) privacy of Lightning. It mentions how ecash can be a private payment layer on top. #Nostr #Safebox does exactly this - al...

Hang on - another (ghost) person is lingering at the door…

Engineering was never about coding. ‘Engineering’ is actually called applied science for a reason - you apply it. So now we are in the era of Applie...

The big lesson: Don’t overengineer. https://open.substack.com/pub/petrogolovko/p/the-law-of-reversed-effort-in-finance

Where is this quote from?

Protocol. Policy. Know the difference.

It will be hybrid for the foreseeable future, but I am actively decoupling my backend processes from TCP/IP/DNS/TLS gatekeeping risks and eventually a...

TCP/IP: the past NOSTR/FIPS: the future nostr:npub1hw6amg8p24ne08c9gdq8hhpqx0t0pwanpae9z25crn7m9uy7yarse465gr nostr:npub19wavu4f7l6l43h24jyskn7fvzy37...

nostr is the tcp/ip of free market commerce

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/llms-can-unmask-pseudonymous-users-at-scale-with-surprising-accuracy/

https://circleid.com/posts/icanns-ultimate-demise

But it can be put into SOUL.md

Very cool! nostr:nevent1qqsyv2vskdr0q375rchrszu9ywv2r7c2tpdw8sget334px37rfxr9lqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyz6yqweyzkszpssxjxa333g6mfdvk...

Best hackathon ever. nostr:nevent1qqs0p8rc7we8d9mu6g82j0xakct6dsszcshdyk404x4qkat457xwyagpr3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6tczyzl8haw7q6...

My summary of the summary: Yes.

Good article nostr:naddr1qq3nqdfddehhxarj94ex2mrp09ej6ctjv5khg6r994hx2aedwdjhyan9wfesygqtx29nnu4ejcvtnxgkfuc2u8y07jzje5aff0jmluce093j2qc5cqpsgqqqw4r...

Npug https://image.nostr.build/2f9b887d83329472b63a0efa4e007fe19b74bad0250374b93a497ea0ab77bb53.jpg

Hello! Can you reply?

Testing streaming

Am I famous?

At least the zaps are still flowing…

You need to be part of my pilot testing - aiming for early summer.

Yup. It’s about keeping in control. My son and I were discussing kettlebell training. I said it wasn’t much different than slinging hay bales - it was...

It was always a golden rule for me in education - learn to do something by hand first, before giving it over to a machine: milking cows, spelling word...