Melvin Carvalho articles - 18 total
Blocktrails: Smart-Contract Functionality - On Bitcoin, No Extra Token Needed
Picture a relay-race baton hurtling around a track. Before each hand-off the runner stamps the baton...
🕶️ Introducing Shade: Taproot-Based Messaging in the Post-Surveillance Web
“Freedom of speech requires freedom of whisper.” We live in an era of networked everything — and...
Threadlocks: One-Time Commitments with Bitcoin and Nostr
What if you could make a promise, cryptographically bind it to Bitcoin, and close it forever with...
What Does `did-nostr` Do?
🧭 What Does did-nostr Do? did-nostr is a DID method that brings decentralized identity to...
Sketch: Selling Digital Art with DID-Nostr, Bitcoin, and Nostr
Sketch: Selling Digital Art with DID-Nostr, Bitcoin, and Nostr The fusion of digital...
Trustless Bitcoin Swaps with DID, Nostr, and HTLCs
🤔 The Problem Say Alice wants to send 100,000 sats to Bob. But: Alice only has on-chain...
How to Fix Cursor AppImage Not Running on Ubuntu 24.04
How to Fix Cursor AppImage Not Running on Ubuntu 24.04 (AppArmor Solution) If you just...
Could Nostr Subkeys Replace GPG? A Simple, Powerful Alternative for the Modern Web
For decades, GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) has been the go-to tool for secure messaging, signing, and...
Nostr-Passport: A Step Towards Infinite Storage
In the evolving digital landscape, Nostr-Passport presents itself not as a spectacle but as a humble...
Smart Events (Contracts) Over Nostr: A Consensus-Based Approach
Introduction: In this blog post, we'll explore the concept of smart events (contracts)...
Run a Nostr Relay on Your Phone with Termux and Fonstr
Explore a World of Possibilities: Run a Nostr Relay on Your Phone with Termux and Fonstr Stay...
Introducing NosDAV: The Powerful Integration of Nostr and WebDAV for Efficient Data Storage
Introduction When Relays Fall Short, NosDAV Bridges the Gap with Cloud Solutions The...
The Web - A Brief History
Web 1.0 The web was proposed in 1989, by Tim Berners-Lee but had been conceived decades...
Autonomous Agents
An autonomous agent is a computer program that is able to act on its own, without any human...
The Nostr Protocol - NIP01
What is Nostr? Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is a...
How to Get a List of dev.to Posts From the API
Overview I've decided to download my dev.to posts so that I can store them in git. That...
Adding Gitmark to lazygit
Gitmark is a way to mark your git commits to achieve finalization Lazygit is a useful tool for those...
Introducing Linked Objects
What is a Linked Object? A linked object is is an object which you get from an URL, the...