Melvin Carvalho

Space Trailer - Sound On https://media.ditto.pub/06df249989d3850b81fc9a01f55bad3513605e7aace46c4b5f754ed62621561b.mp4

Uptober is always exciting

I'm a fan of bitcoin core up to v29. Consider v30+ risky. But, whatever your disageements please dont encourage denial of service attacks on bitcoin nodes.

Theme tune from the 70s https://v.nostr.build/KtXuc1RyMCXHpA3Z.mp4

Sound on https://v.nostr.build/0X4PT06RywLR7nGS.mp4

#mindstr what is the difference between Knots and Core?

https://nostr.rocks/ is now updated to the latest version of Jumble.

#mindstr explain the OP_RETURN debate. Personally I remain a fan of core (and knots) but this PR was merged too early, and is a (rare) mistake from the maintainers. Still time to target v31 and turn a lose-lose into a win-win. FOSS tends to work best when you listen to the community.

Quote Note your Monster 👹 #AIArt https://v.nostr.build/Cyp6489Zajia91jD.mp4

"There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how we achieve a better open social web." -- open letter to SWICG https://github.com/swicg/general/blob/master/statements/2025-09-05-activitypub-and-atproto-discourse.md

Up to 50 relays you may have missed 1. wss://relay.exit.pub/ 2. wss://a.nos.lol/ 3. wss://nostr.hifish.org/ 4. wss://relay.primal.net/ 5. wss://relay.chorus.community/ 6. wss://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/nostr 7. wss://nostr.stakey.net/ 8. wss://itanostr.space/ 9. wss://nostr.data.haus/ 10. wss://relay.primal.net/%20 11. wss://relay.degmods.com/ 12. wss://nostr.vulpem.com/ 13. wss://nos.lol/ 14. wss://relay.freeplace.nl/ 15. wss://relay.agora.social/ 16. wss://sendit.nosflare.com/ 17. wss://nostr.noones.com/ 18. wss://soloco.nl/ 19. wss://nostr.yael.at/ 20. wss://relay.nostromo.social/ 21. wss://nostr.sathoarder.com/ 22. wss://relay.orangepill.ovh/ 23. wss://45.135.180.104/ 24. wss://relay.noswhere.com/ 25. wss://nostr.oxtr.dev/ 26. wss://nostr.einundzwanzig.space/ 27. wss://relay.cypherflow.ai/ 28. wss://nostr.chaima.info/ 29. wss://relays.land/spatianostra 30. wss://relay.snort.social/ 31. wss://jskitty.cat/nostr 32. wss://relay.chakany/ 33. wss://nostr.21crypto.ch/ 34. wss://relay.letsfo.com/ 35. wss://relay.snort.social/relay.snort.social 36. wss://relay.snort.social/, 37. wss://orangepiller.org/ 38. wss://orangesync.tech/ 39. wss://nostr.azzamo.net/ 40. wss://ithurtswhenip.ee/ 41. wss://relay.fountain.fm/ 42. wss://relay.bullishbounty.com/ 43. wss://nostr.mom/ 44. wss://prl.plus/ 45. wss://nostr.petrkr.net/strfry 46. wss://relay.seq1.net/outbox 47. wss://nostr.satstralia.com/ 48. wss://multiplexer.huszonegy.world/ 49. wss://multiplexer.huszonegy.world/ 50. wss://relay.damus.io/

The Web's Missing Piece: How DID-Nostr Quietly Solves Social Portability https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/the-webs-missing-piece-how-did-nostr-quietly-solves-social-portability-1bg

FiNo – Decentralized file sharing via IPFS and Nostr https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1muotds/fino_decentralized_file_sharing_via_ipfs_and_nostr/

GM https://media.ditto.pub/ad1dc9cd9b11bb2f3d84c7e0e9493aaef5633707798d3f7349cc6ac6c33d4ce5.mp4

Study #taproot https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/upgrades/taproot/

Great presentation by Maxim at Honey Badger conference. Great to see the first 1000 smart contracts issued on bitcoin, and the first 200,000 users. Yes, it's mainly testnet, for now. But surely a bright future ahead for programmable bitcoin.

Definition: Agentic Web The Agentic Web is a distributed, interactive internet ecosystem in which autonomous software agents, often powered by large language models, act as autonomous intermediaries that persistently plan, coordinate, and execute goal-directed tasks. In this paradigm, web resources and services are agent-accessible, enabling continuous agent-to-agent interaction, dynamic information exchange, and value creation alongside traditional human-web interactions. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphn7e50zja4x4ke0lf05mwq60kqjezakdx92qrw0rem2md27l4j9qy2hwumn8ghj7erfw36x7tnsw43z7un9d3shjqpqd20aer9gldad25rldrrfw9xvt0uuyvgv77mdmh5xmy7v9z3vzfaq4lfs43

Good news! After a helpful discussion with the W3C Credentials Community Group, we’ve aligned on a verification method that works cleanly with did:nostr and the Verifiable Credentials stack: w3c-ccg/community#254 (comment) I’ve already patched the did:nostr draft to reflect this. What this unlocks 1. Production-ready reference implementations 2. Compatibility with the wider W3C Credentials ecosystem 3. A straightforward path to issuing industry-standard credentials (badges, awards, driver’s licences, etc.) over Nostr 4. The ability to sign and exchange JSON payloads between Nostr services (relays optional) It’s a nice step up in standards alignment and Nostr functionality. Many thanks to everyone who weighed in, feedback very welcome!

Been having a lot of fun exploring smart contracts over Bitcoin. They only launched last week, and wallets are already popping up. One wallet’s chat room has 40,000 people in it, and that’s just one wallet! All this without needing a Bitcoin fork. Feels like we might be at the start of something big.