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Melvin Carvalho
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Mathematician and Web Developer
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melvincarvalho 5 months ago
LFG -- Satoshi's brillieant invention created a fair store of value, and medium of exchange. A fair commerce layer, built on bitcoin, starting with RGB, is the perhaps an even bigger technical feat. Fix the market, fix the world. "The official release of RGB v0.11.1 is now live on Bitcoin mainnet, unlocking a new chapter in Bitcoin’s evolution: tokenized assets and programmable contracts, all without leaving the Bitcoin ecosystem." image
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melvincarvalho 5 months ago
Imagine you could deploy git repos, agents, and other stuff as PWAs directly to your phone ... image
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melvincarvalho 5 months ago
SIGIL defines a deterministic envelope that lets any JSON object be hashed and authenticated with a Nostr key‑pair using RFC 8785 canonicalisation and BIP‑340 Schnorr signatures. The envelope keeps the familiar id and pubkey/sig fields while removing the 6‑item Nostr signing tuple, making the format suitable for off‑relay storage, cross‑protocol bridges and application‑specific events.
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melvincarvalho 6 months ago
Tokmeter lets you quickly count tokens from the command line: # Count tokens in files tokmeter file1.txt file2.js # Count tokens in text tokmeter "Hello, world!" # Count tokens from stdin echo "Hello, world!" | tokmeter https://www.npmjs.com/package/tokmeter
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melvincarvalho 6 months ago
A bookmarking micro app that works with both Solid and Nostr. Interoperability proof of concept. image
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melvincarvalho 6 months ago
Finally we can log in to solid with nostr, and log in to nostr with solid. Personal storage at web scale for both eco systems. DIDs, portability, payments, identity, git without github, super apps, micro apps, on-chain commitments, smart contracts and a web operating-system. Happy days! image
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melvincarvalho 6 months ago
Censorship resistance score card: ~2/10 -- twitter / x ~3/10 -- activitypub / mastodon ~6/10 -- nostr ~8/10 -- bitcoin ~9/10 -- bittorrent/pubky X relies on the CEO alot. AP is inconsistent, but you can run your own. Nostr is still reliant on DNS. Bitcoin has a reliance on miners. Bittorrent seems to be holding up with occasional scare letters from lawyers. View quoted note →
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melvincarvalho 6 months ago
A fairly decent summary. I would add one thing. A nostr client could upgrade its censorship resistance with a relatively easy #pubky integration. The two protocols are complementary. image