Subnostr

Tim Bouma

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

Replying to

halalmoney

‘I think using real name = authentic is too simplistic and boring.

When you talk like this you locate authenticity at the level of the identity.’

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/pseudonyms-and-agency

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Benjamin Franklin first published under the pseudonym of ‘Silence Dogood’, a middle-aged woman opining on the morals of society. Franklin was 16 at the time.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Every atom on this planet can have its own npub. Think about that.

Replying to

retired npub

Sooner or later, #Nostr itself will come under the scanner

All you need to communicate on 0xChat is just an npub

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Same with your wallet. It will be an nsec that you only know. That’s what I am trying to build.

https://github.com/trbouma/safebox

Replying to

Laeserin

Y'all be rolling out buggy prototypes like they're the new iPhone. 😂

Now, in version 0.0.1 Alpha!! 🎉

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Replying to

retired npub

Any effort to regulate #bitcoin will be done in the name of AML. They have no other way to control the technology

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Yep. I realized that long ago. A lot of that AML stuff is driven by authoritarian regimes exercising extraterritorial power through the likes of the FATF and putting regimes they don’t like on the ‘gray list’. Unfortunately, many good-intending folks don’t realize that they’re part of that game.

Replying to

Melvin Carvalho

Truth. On point, as usual. But we can make it better. Less LARPing, more building. Decentralzation is not a slogan, it requires work.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

I always wonder if ‘decentralization’ is the actual objective. For me, it’s more about redundancy and resiliency.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

technology as magic > power as violence > legal as authority.

Now I understand why regulators are so scared. There’s a new daddy in town and he is not their friend.

Replying to

halalmoney

Nice share. Thank you.

‘That analysis revealed that legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences — a feature known as “center-embedding.” Linguists have previously found that this kind of structure can make text much more difficult to understand.

“Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,” Gibson says.’

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Sounds like the Python modules I use.

Replying to

Laeserin

MIT discovers Fachjargon. 🙄

Tim Bouma 1y ago

I knew it! Always an excellent long German word for it.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

The gig is up.

https://yubanet.com/scitech/mit-study-explains-why-laws-are-written-in-an-incomprehensible-style/

Replying to

Andrew M. Bailey

Cash is good. Bring back supernotes, and in bigger denominations — $500, $1,000, even $10,000. But for better financial privacy, we need supercoins too, without serial numbers. This is perhaps my most unusual money policy stance: the US should mint $100 and $1,000 coins.

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Imagine the vending machines for these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Maple_Leaf

Tim Bouma 1y ago