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Melvin Carvalho
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Mathematician and Web Developer
#mindstr give me an update on the OP_RETURN debate on 20250505 image
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3 questions: 1. What are the most important problems in your field? 2. Are you working on one of them? 3. Why not?
"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.