Vilifiable Credentials
Tim Bouma
trbouma@safebox.dev
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| Independent Self | Pug Lover | Published Author | #SovEng Alum | #Cashu OG | #OpenSats Grantee x 2| #Nosfabrica Prize Winner
#WhiteNoise hides #Safebox


Having fun experimenting with opsec with #nostr #safebox and nfc
Nostr for Institutions


Nostr for Institutions
A Return to Human-Scale Organization in a Post-Centralization Age
This looks straightforward enough. I might co-opt this into #nostrpass


Apple Developer Documentation
Wallet Passes | Apple Developer Documentation
Create, distribute, and update passes for the Wallet app.
Every App is a Trap.
If you are a builder, are you building an app or a trap?
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Bitcoin course syllabus by @Andrew M. Bailey
Philosophy and Economics of Bitcoin - Class Website
Twitter is like going downtown on a Saturday night.
If you think your npub is your identity, maybe you should get some other hobbies.
#npug with a Pearl Earring.


money by math > money by decree
JFC.
It’s not hard to see that all EU digital capabilities will be mobilized toward war.


What generational track are you on?
Boomer->Millennial—>Alpha
Wartime->GenX->GenZ
Community-Led Recordkeeping (#clrk), supported by decentralized protocols, such as Nostr reanimates the very way human societies managed their records long before the rise of centralized bureaucracies. For most of history, families, clans, guilds, and villages preserved their own births, apprenticeships, land boundaries, exchanges, and agreements through trusted witnesses, shared memory, marked objects, and community-held documents. These practices were local, verifiable, and socially enforced—not dependent on distant authorities.
Modern technologies such as Nostr-based attestations, portable digital vaults, and tamper-evident community safeboxes do not replace that tradition; they restore its logic by giving communities the means to document, store, and share proofs of everyday life using tools that are just as human-centred as the systems they once relied on. In this sense, technology becomes an enabler of historical continuity, allowing community autonomy and mutual trust to flourish again in a digital age.
This just in: Trust fund baby says money is not important.
Retired bond trader writes book about money not being important. Just go backpacking around the world, instead…
Yesterday, I went to the public library for the first time since the pandemic.
I’m glad I brought my noise-cancelling headphones…
Ideologists mistake technology for ideology.
Don’t be an ideologist - be a technologist.
yeesh, it’s just a monetary system. Based on some math.

Bitcoin is a Lie
A confession and a moral charge