Tim Bouma

I have my work cut out for me tonight #operationstartwatch

Wondering if kids can tell time with this thing.

Permissionless NFC card payment network... #nostr #safebox

What is money? #CanadianTire

I respect these PKI pundits, but I do find their message alarming. Basically, it’s: Immediate cascading collapse > Long-term harvest and decrypt. https://youtu.be/5pHSEbYw7MM

The protocol doesn’t care if you compromise your principles, but it does care if you compromise your private key.

Make Engineers Not Code Again. #menca

Ethereum as a public bulletin board… https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/03/12/vitalik-buterin-…

reputable npubs

Some working definitions coming out of yesterday’s @nosfabrica #wotathon call. Assertion: An assertion is a Nostr signed event that states a fact, claim, or statement in the event’s content or tags. Attestation: An attestation is a Nostr signed event that references one or more other events (e tag) or entities (p tag), and optionally provides additional context, evaluation, or qualification in the event’s content or tags. Assertor: An assertor is the Nostr public key (npub) that publishes a signed event that constitutes an assertion. Attestor: An attestor is the Nostr public key (npub) that publishes a signed event that constitutes an attestation. Acceptance: Acceptance is the decision to rely upon or act upon one or more assertions and associated attestations.

“the barrier for hackers and hostile nation states is no longer Signal’s gold standard encryption. The vulnerability is some agentic system that is built in an incredibly insecure way” Excerpt From “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on AI and the tension between privacy and public safety” Taylor Owen, Mitchell Stuart The Globe and Mail

“We need to understand that a world in which we can’t communicate freely is a world in which we can’t live beautiful, intimate, open lives. ” Excerpt From “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on AI and the tension between privacy and public safety” Taylor Owen, Mitchell Stuart The Globe and Mail

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

Motivation is the key differentiator.

Pretty sure that Aristotle concluded that the function of the brain is to cool blood. https://open.substack.com/pub/ellennoraburns/p/your-brain…

GM

Engineering asks what is true about the system and what must be changed to make it sound. Negotiation asks what parties are willing to accept, disclose, defer, or absorb. Know the difference.