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
Build your own paper Enigma machine.
Cryptosystems Journal - Volume 1
Paper Enigma / Pringles Enigma
Test zap
Moving all my #nostr #safebox infrastructure to local servers except for reverse proxy. Full bitcoin node; local lnd, Cashu mint, and app server.
Zap test for new lnd node
GN
GM
You might have no choice but to trust the code, but you should be able to verify the output.
wut?
After 3 years, there are only 4 public #Cashu mints being reviewed?
What happened to a thousand mints blooming?
Bitcoin Mints
Exploiting ML-DSA bugs
https://cr.yp.to/papers/mldsa-20260601.pdf
The politics of open infrastructures
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0528
“Communities don't care about protocols or open source”
Paths & Patches
Connected community spaces
This week the Newsmast team is heading to Amsterdam for Public Spaces, where the theme is Technology for Democracy. Here are three talking points -...
#bikestr
“The deeper I look at [nostr], the more it feels less like a social protocol and more like a carefully disciplined refusal to solve problems that protocols cannot actually solve.”
I care more about the protocol itself than I care about the recent social media drama and the cypherpunk virtue signalling.
Simplicity Is Completeness
What Nostr quietly revealed
This is an attempt to communicate the value of the nostr protocol outside of the bubble.
Simplicity Is Completeness
What Nostr quietly revealed
#bikestr
Updated Nostr Silent Payments gist at the link below.
The gist now includes two example scripts to validate a silent payment transaction and sweep a silent payment transaction. The example scripts have been implemented using the Python standard libraries only (no additional installs such as secp256k1, bech32, etc.) so you can see how everything works from the ground up - even how the public key points are created, added, etc.
Also, the threat model has been updated. Though it can be used by your primary social media npub, that is not recommended.
There are many different use cases (not related to social media) where an npub with a corresponding NIP-05 address may be required to privately receive funds.
Gist
Nostr Silent Payments
Nostr Silent Payments. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Onboarding onto nostr be like:
