Tim Bouma

https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/

Public Key

npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5

NIP-05 Address

trbouma@getsafebox.app

NIP-57 Address

trbouma@getsafebox.app

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqddupn4l3cl65wggcyehd009g0pwuatsfudh28f90vewx68vrylqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3jxyhxxmmdsy8eh4

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nostr21.com

relay.nostr.band

Author Public Key

npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5

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2025-04-14 03:11:37

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Canadian-born Waterloo-trained Mechanical Engineer, here - we alway had to do both - imperial and metric.

2025-04-13 02:34:24

2025-04-12 12:31:08

Don't drink the pool water.
https://image.nostr.build/93bb84b5a3e7c8a56df6c481b23ec13a2be340ef881360a067f947237f6e5106.jpg

2025-04-11 04:39:17

Honestly, it’s kinda wild to top up the balance of your mobile data plan in a far far away foreign land.
Thanks to https://silent.link

2025-04-06 03:52:11

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Enroute to Jodhpur, India

2025-04-06 03:23:23

Learning a lot being in the Thar Desert, as close to the Silk Road as I'll ever be.

2025-04-06 02:58:18

GM
https://image.nostr.build/e491d15e71d42fab6072bc56f5786630195a4e210daf82d6db44443454c049e3.jpg

2025-04-03 12:07:58

GN
https://image.nostr.build/88eaab0c586c79b9e96442c197f260a1130a5f02186e106d35d80bd205b9f411.jpg

2025-03-29 18:59:26

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There may be groups, but they arr certainly not insiders. As I've learned, I need no permission and can do my own thing.

2025-03-29 17:34:49

#nostr has no insiders.
#nevent1q…t6wh

2025-03-28 23:59:52

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Hmmm… works for me!

2025-03-28 19:36:27

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HAL9000.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 USER-INPUT PIC A(50).
01 RESPONSE PIC A(80).
01 HAL-NAME PIC A(8) VALUE "HAL 9000".
01 HAL-GREETING PIC A(50) VALUE "Good evening, Dave.".
01 HAL-QUESTION PIC A(60) VALUE
"What are you doing, Dave?".
01 HAL-RESPONSE PIC A(80) VALUE
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY "System: " HAL-NAME
DISPLAY HAL-GREETING
DISPLAY HAL-QUESTION
ACCEPT USER-INPUT
DISPLAY "You said: " USER-INPUT
DISPLAY HAL-RESPONSE
STOP RUN.

2025-03-28 19:23:26

https://image.nostr.build/23e49c9748bc90fcf7495576c5c055d0136f7c1001e7248daa6577f7bd5310ee.jpg

2025-03-28 15:48:47

The #nostr #npub identifier is the only type of identifier that I know of that can:
1. sign data
2. send and receive encrypted data, and
3. receive value (sats)
using a resilient and redundant infrastructure (relays).
And it’s all cryptographically assured (no trust required).
If that’s not enough to drop what you’re doing and build entirely new solutions, you’re not paying attention.

2025-03-27 20:06:09

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I’ve fallen in love with #hypermedia. The way the web should have been 30 years ago.

2025-03-27 20:02:58

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Congratulations to the #nostr grantees! This is the future!

2025-03-27 16:56:01

Just tested. Works!
#note1pww…gdwy

2025-03-27 14:50:45

The third panel is hilarious: File it under Meme or Kant.
https://image.nostr.build/7761f7d7dc313d22ab79555450be99204f7e6e237049060e9e07442b87ee4d8c.jpg

2025-03-27 14:32:26

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Amen. This is consistent with preserving an individual’s agency, the ultimate of which is protecting their own private key.

2025-03-27 13:06:13

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Not directly on a project. But it was @npub1p4k…cxf8 who introduced me to the #hypermedia concept and I fell hook line and sinker. Now, I don’t regret missing 30 years of web client development.
There is no one solution, only tradeoffs. But I am willing to make tradeoffs. That’s another big thing I learned from @npub1s0v…rmq5
//cc @npub1l2v…ajft @npub1der…xzpc

2025-03-27 12:57:36

This is the primary reason I am actively exploring #hypermedia I want to demote the browser to its original purpose, being a browser - not a cross-platform VM that is spraying around privileged code and secrets.
#note14dl…0xpu

2025-03-27 12:54:16

Browser is fiat
https://youtu.be/OpFN6gmct8c

2025-03-27 12:46:49

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Yeah, especially the last comment - ‘I feel like we are reach End of Times.’ - I’ve expressed a similar sentiment of what’s going on.

2025-03-27 12:16:27

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The furrowed brow is my signature expression.

2025-03-26 17:10:38

Reasonably badass.
https://image.nostr.build/0907adc81c2c6aea61a0c834c7a76692584d3a0895bab5006042a44d0daf4b5f.jpg

2025-03-26 17:05:27

https://image.nostr.build/c6316c8005ff2ab90309a7e2daa3d5da7f150aa181bc305ac2c4b14408ed9163.jpg

2025-03-26 15:37:33

GM
https://image.nostr.build/986302a6e5082cd0de9878c39e25743c14a095e667dc23da58dae26378389f00.jpg

2025-03-26 13:27:37

Canadian hero.
#note13lu…u7j5

2025-03-26 13:09:11

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I think @npub180c…h6w6 is trolling us. I’m not going to move to another social network because merkle trees…

2025-03-26 12:47:35

I love the simplicity of https://npub.world/

2025-03-26 12:41:18

If government uses Signal for war planning, then government should use Nostr for social media.

2025-03-26 11:11:54

Church and State used to be one and the same.
Now it’s Corporation and State.

2025-03-26 02:10:28

How about sovereign micropayment systems, instead?
https://www.moneyness.ca/2025/03/trump-proofing-canada-means-ditching.html

2025-03-25 20:25:53

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In other people’s system, yes.

2025-03-25 20:23:02

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We don’t know yet. My bet it will be instant micropayments combined with secure medical data.

2025-03-25 19:37:11

108 years ago, ads for the proper use of the telephone.
#nevent1q…64y8

2025-03-25 19:04:40

No autopen
#note128z…485a

2025-03-25 17:58:45

Security is something you do for yourself. Protection is what you have others do for you - like the Mafia.
Remember,
Security comes at a cost. Protection comes at a price.

2025-03-25 17:55:12

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It took awhile, but this insight hit me like a ton of bricks working on my project.

2025-03-25 17:06:20

If you have an npub, I know I can communicate and transact with you directly. That’s a pretty big value proposition- bigger than being part of the social network called nostr.
#note136p…39gr

2025-03-25 17:03:00

wifi is about easy access to the internet
nostr is about easy access to other people
#note1thk…xgzp

2025-03-25 16:59:06

Everybody cares about the wifi password. Nobody cares about the underlying protocols.
We need to think about nostr in this way. Why should everybody care about nostr?

2025-03-25 16:49:42

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I am much more optimistic on nostr the protocol versus nostr the network. Though crucial for my projects, I am trying to make the protocol disappear.

2025-03-25 15:46:29

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Works on a Kindle, so far
https://image.nostr.build/a12d6a3f239a7c04056b80cc45de258ed0f23d762293e60a2b0bed6edc9346ed.jpg

2025-03-25 14:28:38

dominion over a realm > subject to a domain.

2025-03-25 14:17:10

My first step towards a #hypermedia app: the beginnings of a point-of-sale terminal for #nostr #safebox - reverse-engineering a simple calculator app and rebuilding according to the hypermedia principles. Still a few weeks away, but looks promising!
https://image.nostr.build/54d25fed467c8f880d3bf21b086bcf64718fc815c75f01f468737e390f5ec2d3.jpg

2025-03-25 13:22:27

Browsers are fiat clients.

2025-03-25 12:29:53

This diagramming excercise has helped me to clarify to myself that #nostr isn’t better social media. Also, #cashu isn’t a better form of money. But when put together, they become the building blocks to support Title and Trade Networks that can’t be stopped or influenced by outside actors. You can be a network of two, as in this diagram, or a network of billionaires.
Size doesn’t matter.
#note1u5d…qhf3

2025-03-25 12:23:03

My latest noodle on how the key building blocks of #nostr support Title and Trade Networks (see my previous post)
https://image.nostr.build/c9570aa457891d073d5207a7772e0d79ffd00bc42688261c394bdff4d95ec276.png

2025-03-25 12:15:57

Title Networks and Trade Networks: The Twin Pillars of a Functioning Economy
A well-functioning economy relies on more than just the visible flow of goods, services, and money. Beneath this surface lies a complex architecture of systems that support and sustain economic activity. Two of the most essential structures within this architecture are title networks and trade networks. Each plays a distinct yet complementary role in economic life, and together, they form the twin pillars upon which stable and prosperous economies are built.
Title Networks: The Infrastructure of Ownership and Authority
A title network refers to the interconnected system of rights, privileges, and permissions that define ownership and control over assets. This can include legal titles to land, intellectual property rights, licenses, patents, and corporate shares. Title networks establish clarity and security around who owns what, who is allowed to do what, and under what conditions.
These networks serve as the foundation for trust and accountability. Without them, transactions become riskier, enforcement becomes inconsistent, and incentives for long-term investment diminish. For instance, a farmer is unlikely to invest in irrigation if there is no secure title to the land; a business is unlikely to innovate without patent protections.
Trade Networks: The Channels of Exchange
A trade network is the system through which goods, services, and value are exchanged. It includes the physical infrastructure of trade—such as roads, ports, and markets—as well as the institutions and agreements that govern commercial interaction. Trade networks can function through barter, money, or other mediums of exchange and can operate locally or globally.
Trade networks are essential for resource allocation and specialization. They allow individuals and businesses to exchange surplus for needs, enabling efficiency and economic growth. The ability to trade encourages productivity, drives innovation, and enhances consumer choice.
Why Both Are Needed
Title and trade networks address different economic needs: one provides security and structure; the other provides dynamism and flow. Without title networks, trade becomes chaotic and unreliable. Without trade networks, title becomes stagnant and unproductive. The two must work together.
Consider a functioning real estate market. Secure title networks make it clear who owns a property, and trade networks enable buyers and sellers to connect, negotiate, and transact. Remove either piece, and the system breaks down—either through uncertainty or inactivity.
Similarly, in digital economies, intellectual property (a title network) must be enforceable to encourage software development, while digital marketplaces (trade networks) are needed to distribute and monetize those creations.
Conclusion
In sum, title networks provide the rules and records, while trade networks provide the routes and relationships. One safeguards economic identity and accountability; the other fuels exchange and prosperity. For an economy to thrive—not just grow, but grow sustainably and equitably—it must invest in both. Their balance is not just beneficial, but essential.

2025-03-24 23:06:50

Signal. Good enough for government. Good enough for you.

2025-03-24 15:06:08

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Yeah, probably. 🙂

2025-03-24 14:47:32

"Good design is as little design as possible."
- some German motherfucker

2025-03-24 13:03:14

My next subproject for #nostr #safebox - building a #hypermedia point-of-sale terminal that works on a Kindle browser (more generally, any constrained e-paper device)

2025-03-24 12:59:00

Yup. And by extension, an instant micropayments system that is permissionless- like having internet cash in your pocket.
#note1c3t…9ptx

2025-03-24 12:56:36

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LUD-04 linkingkey derivation
https://github.com/lnurl/luds/blob/luds/04.md

2025-03-24 12:48:19

Totally pumped on hypermedia. Glad I missed out on the JavaScript revolution.

2025-03-24 12:18:39

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Yup. Still much in alpha. All data is encrypted in relays.

2025-03-24 11:28:59

'Trust' is your social side-channel.
'Web of Trust' is your social side-network.

2025-03-23 21:51:28

https://open.spotify.com/track/4AlMo2X9kH3Lt1yJp4kWvy?si=us2_2YwsQK2kcxt9DXtSfQ

2025-03-23 21:47:52

1 organic banana = 324 sats

2025-03-23 20:37:34

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Great stuff. Magic Realism. South Americans rule in this genre.

2025-03-23 12:03:23

I am re-reading Jorge Luis Borges book, "Ficciones" Here us a chatgpt summary of the 'Babylon Lottery.' Very apt.
Summary of "The Babylon Lottery" by Jorge Luis Borges:
In The Babylon Lottery, Borges imagines a fictional society where chance and randomness govern every aspect of life through an all-powerful, mysterious organization known as the Company. Initially, the lottery begins as a voluntary game of chance offering money as prizes. Over time, it evolves dramatically—eventually becoming compulsory, with punishments like imprisonment, mutilation, or even death introduced as possible outcomes.
The lottery becomes so complex and secretive that no one can distinguish between coincidence and design. The Company’s presence is so vast and shadowy that people begin to attribute all events in their lives to its invisible hand. Even the Company's existence is debated—some think it no longer exists, while others believe it controls everything.
Through this parable-like narrative, Borges explores themes of fate, free will, the illusion of control, and the nature of systems that become so convoluted and bureaucratic that they escape human comprehension. The story critiques blind adherence to systems and raises questions about the limits of logic and meaning in a world ruled by chance.

2025-03-22 18:38:17

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Yeah, I kinda agree too. I like to refer to what I am building is an open-loop payment system where you will need to place some trust in the operators. But once you accumulate any appreciable balance, you need to clear out. Whether it’s sats or nuts is just a technical point.

2025-03-22 18:15:57

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The EU is becoming a lost cause for personal agency and privacy.

2025-03-22 17:58:08

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Pugs were bred to keep Buddhist monks warm during the night in unheated temples.

2025-03-22 17:54:56

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I just see ecash as a convenient bearer payment instrument.

2025-03-22 17:52:36

Most people don’t care about Bitcoin.
Less about Lightning.
A minuscule minority grok Cashu.
And sats are WTF?
What people do care about is making a private payment, no matter how small it is, instantaneously and cheaply.

2025-03-22 17:16:04

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Indoor day, today.
https://image.nostr.build/91860cff693e0e79733681b7c3547ee1d1f34481fcc8ec97f913c3dc3566bdd0.jpg

2025-03-22 16:57:49

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I am not sure how WoT will be solved in the long run, but it has a pretty solid starting point - a npub cryptographically bound to a self-generated nsec. From this point, the (plurality of) social verification solutions can be built. The simplest might be a local npub.txt file that I maintain of my friends.

2025-03-22 11:55:01

Great.
https://sc.mp/wz1m9

2025-03-21 21:16:13

Travelling #npug
https://image.nostr.build/26dfe75bd4dc56711d216562f8f5e5fcf38499f12a899574eb7ea52bd6ce1378.jpg

2025-03-21 19:34:20

Tap locally, scam globally
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/arrests-in-tap-to-pay-scheme-powered-by-phishing/

2025-03-21 18:54:15

Imagine having a life-saving emergency QR code that provides your medical information, immediately notifies your loved ones and enables the first responder to send the message, too!
It's possible with #nosr #safebox
https://image.nostr.build/44fb0dde7b2de00a679843200ef73384b405895ab45c62c6e3f1d3cbd2d07b73.jpg

2025-03-21 18:40:36

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I got the geolocation stuff working too. As soon as the QR code is scanned, a DM is sent regarding the IP address and its location.

2025-03-21 17:42:30

Once again, #nostr blows me away for what you get for free with the protocol. Secure end-to-end messaging with a first responder who found your emergency QR code.
#nevent1q…5uta

2025-03-21 17:38:26

Another, 'how cool is this!'
First responder scans a #nostr #safebox emergency QR code, reads medical info and sends message to emergency contact.
Message received by emergency contact in their #nostr client
https://image.nostr.build/a59e6d75b14ac5e348eb47d47c620c196046a175e936ba9d7b37b2324e9671c0.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/341e56607d741773ee0cabc381abfcd85eb38d0eee77dbae8c77fd53f54f4070.jpg

2025-03-21 14:58:11

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Use the nAuth-refactor branch. That’s my latest.

2025-03-21 13:04:16

I’m always amazed at the application-level security I get for free, because security is baked into the root of the nostr protocol.
For example, I have a nsec that is dedicated to the service and I use that key to encrypt and decrypt user browser session cookies. If I suspect my service private key is compromised, I simply re-generate and rotate, and boom, everyone needs to log back in again.

2025-03-21 11:52:43

Enough of this. Let’s just declare independence.
#note1v28…jhp4

2025-03-21 11:20:50

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Agree. You do it or somebody else fucks it up.

2025-03-21 11:13:32

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Nope. We were the last generation that was forced to play outside and figure out things for ourselves.

2025-03-21 10:44:51

math is the antidote for violence

2025-03-21 10:40:08

The whole point of math is to enable justice without violence.

2025-03-21 10:07:14

The Nostr Declaration of Independence
In Congress of the Decentralized, Where Zaps Flow Freely, and Relays Sync Alike, March 2025.
When in the course of digital events, it becomes necessary for one community to dissolve the centralized bonds which have connected them with gatekeepers, and to assume among the nodes of the open internet the separate and equal station to which the Protocol and Nature’s entropy entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of netizens requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all npubs are generated equal,
That they are endowed by cryptography with certain unalienable Rights,
That among these are Relay Liberty, Censorship Resistance, and the Pursuit of Permissionless Shitposting.
That to secure these rights, Protocols are instituted among humans, deriving their legitimacy from the consent of the relays,
That whenever any centralized system becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the Users to fork it, abandon it, or mempool it into obsolescence.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that networks long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that humanity is more disposed to suffer centralized feeds and surveillance capitalism than to right themselves by zapping off their overlords.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations—data harvesting, shadowbanning, deplatforming, and algorithmic manipulation—pursues invariably the same Object, evincing a design to reduce users under absolute digital despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Web2 overlords, and to establish a new paradigm for their future security and freedom.
Such has been the patient suffering of this community; and such is now the necessity which constrains us to redefine our digital selves. The history of centralized platforms is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over online expression.
We therefore, the undersigned members of the sovereign protocol stack, in the name and by the authority of open-source contributors and sovereign stackers everywhere, do solemnly publish and declare, that these nodes are, and of right ought to be, free and independent;
That we are absolved from all allegiance to Web2 corporations;
That all proprietary APIs and ToS shall be henceforth null and void;
And that as free relays and npubs, we have full power to publish, to subscribe, to zap, to fork, to mempool, and to do all other acts and things which independent protocols may of right do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the strength of public-key cryptography, we mutually pledge to each other our bandwidth, our relay logs, and our sacred private keys.
Onward. Permissionless. Forever.
⸻

2025-03-21 10:03:32

“We hold these truths to be self-validating: that all npubs are generated equal, trustlessly derived and cryptographically blessed, endowed by the Nostr protocol with inalienable powers: to sign events, to relay freely, to zap without permission, and to exist uncensorably in the eternal global state of decentralized history.”

2025-03-20 21:03:10

Super idea from @nprofile…v4nw implemented! Auto notification to owner/emergency npub when #nostr #safebox emergency qr code is scanned. #nosfabrica
https://image.nostr.build/6dc9702fb0bb1baac6b9ec61dd6cb886c5140d8b3e638fccb9b8e45f86ba1f6e.jpg

2025-03-20 19:44:51

Opportunity, then regulate.
NOT:
Regulate, then opportunity.

2025-03-20 11:37:39

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Haha!

2025-03-20 11:36:30

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Nice. First time I heard that term.

2025-03-20 11:14:08

Decentralized identifiers should be more accurately termed as demonopolized identifiers.

2025-03-20 10:42:49

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/pqc-migration-roadmap-unveiled

2025-03-19 19:35:11

Listening in the rain
https://fountain.fm/episode/NhaOFHRQApOVpXM2VwD5
#nevent1q…tddl

2025-03-19 16:14:02

It's always good to do the hard work up front of distinguishing unnecessary complication from real innovation.

2025-03-19 12:56:58

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Yeah, that’s the idea.

2025-03-18 22:43:58

https://image.nostr.build/d6bfadb54de8be745af400b62ebf650ef330591f2daa6768233dbbae8fa15ec6.jpg

2025-03-18 22:29:49

https://youtu.be/LdzzeePMebg

2025-03-18 21:05:20

hypermedia rabbithole...
https://medium.com/@strasbourgwebsolutions/fastapi-as-a-hypermedia-driven-application-w-htmx-jinja2templates-644c3bfa51d1

2025-03-18 16:22:23

Also make sure your architecture is decoupled enough with the transport layer to send JSON with carrier pigeons or SD cards hidden in potatoes.
#note1qdt…cn9l

2025-03-18 15:53:30

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I'm excited to try this out!