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Melvin Carvalho
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Mathematician and Web Developer
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
#mindstr give me an update on the OP_RETURN debate on 20250505 image
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
With did-nostr you can have private direct messages that do not leak meta data. image
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
3 questions: 1. What are the most important problems in your field? 2. Are you working on one of them? 3. Why not?
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
"We can't stop something, therefore we should allow or enable it" is known as an appeal to futility, and it's often a subset of the either/or fallacy, also called binary thinking. It's a powerful framing shift: if you can't stop something 100%, then why bother trying at all? But the real world is messier than that. People have choices, but 80% follow defaults. Harmful behavior is possible, but not inevitable. And well-intentioned changes to working systems can have unexpected consequences. I'm a big fan of Bitcoin Core — it has brought us a long way. But no single developer always gets it right. Listening to the broader community often makes the system stronger.