purpurato

Travel

If you ever go to Colombia, don't miss to visit Santa Marta and around. There's a little town in the Sierra Nevada called Minca, where there are many hikes in the mountain where you can see waterfalls, birds and much more, highly recommended. 

Once there, don't forget to shop at [Supermercado Minca Express](https://btcmap.org/merchant/node:4396410394) where William will accept LN payments for accommodation, tours and groceries. I was there recently and had a nice surprise with him, he's the only merchant there that accepts BTC. 

![bitcoin sign](https://m.stacker.news/90848)

This post is actually more about this new merchant in Minca :D he's got a Wallet of Satoshi and looks really eager to learn more about BTC. Another bitcoiner in the past did the heavy lifting of orange pilling him, and he did a great job. He even got that cool sign in the mirror with orange lighting. 

If you wanna send him some love, here is his lnurl crypticspace31@walletofsatoshi.com don't forget to add a little message (in spanish). I think it's really cool to receive tips from total strangers across the world. 

Only with LN! 

Minca - Colombia

mempool

I was watching this sci-fi series, pretty cool btw ([The expanse](https://libremdb.iket.me/title/tt3230854)) and at some point, there's a character on a space station where they have crops for food and he says something about diversity that made me think about issues I've seen here in real life. As the plants were growing in an artificial environment, the system was very fragile, not as the ones we have here on earth. So once an imbalance appears, there are not enough routes to bring it back to equilibrium and it could easily collapse. 

You don't need to be a scientist to observe that the lack of diversity is a dangerous situation when systems are exposed to external threats. I'm thinking particularly about an abomination that we do here with crops. Instead of having small patches of different crops where there is some diversity, with different trees, animals and insects, we just raze hundreds of kilometers of land and put the same thing on it! Where I live they've done that with sugar cane, palm oil and bananas. I always wonder why someone would do something so anti natural (stupid), it's kilometers of the same thing as far as the eye can see. Off course these things tend to get sick all at once and the risk of losing millions is very high, so the answer is to spread it with toxic chemicals or worse, create GMO's that can resist the chemicals, when the easy and natural answer would be to just plant different things, and also leave some trees and different plants to avoid the problem. This would create a system that is more robust and easily self regulates. 

Well IMHO one way to look at the problem with the OP_RETURN thing is that most nodes are Core, I think it's up to 93% now, so really no diversity at all. As far as I understand, there wouldn't be such a problem if there were more diversity in nodes implementations used, basically because everyone would use different policies so no change in a single one would produce a system wide issue. Because we're lazy and most of us simply use Core, than when there's a change, it can have an impact on the whole system. I see that there are already some real proof-of-work fellows that take action and are now using Knots, this is the natural and easy solution to the problem. 

All this is just to say that systems designed by humans tend to fail on the fact that we are always thinking about keeping control of them, but that is not how nature works. Nature is an extremely complex system, and that is why it self regulates and doesn't need intervention to keep its balance. So when we design systems, we should try to emulate nature, in a way to keep diversity and complexity, and not try to reduce it and simplify in order to keep control of it. 



Diversity is key for balance

Music

Billie Holiday

bitcoin

Conversation With A Boomer Buddy

siggy47

Sorry for your friends @siggy47 🙏

I just realized memes might not be the appropriate reply here

this post reads just like this meme 

![](https://m.stacker.news/90611)

i had that same conversation just a couple of weeks ago! 

Sunday Survey: What node software are you running now?

jimmysong

Running one with BTCPayServer, would like to have the option to use Knots.

The Entire History of Cat Memes

zuspotirko

This vid is just a short synopsis of a PhD thesis.

bitcoin_beginners

Bitcoin in Real Life

criptopanas

Our first product is the equity itself

AskSN

🦅 Is the US Empire in its Decline Phase?

hybridbits

Interesting, I believe this is how a high percentage of the gringos think. But as Lyn Alden says "Nothing stops this train"

Poll 238: Why would Peter Todd do this?

bitcoinbreakdown

So basically 

Russians = bad
Americans = good

Looks nice, will try to use it for next trip. 

Bitcoin Travel

P2P ₿AND

There's also [CriptoYa](https://criptoya.com/) and [Yadio](https://yadio.io/) that offer similar info. P2P.band looks prettier though. 

Have you used ln2pbot? I don't understand why it's not more used in the US, the UX is better than Robosats imo. 

Disputes on Robosats

TempleOfSats

\+ @TempleOfSats is on Telegram and SimpleX ready to help and there's a bot to notify on your trades.


econ

Inflation and Reduflacion 📉 📊

flat24

The latest BIG mac 

![](https://m.stacker.news/89680)

nostr

NOSTR really sucks for me :(

raw_avocado

![](https://m.stacker.news/89628)

lol sorry
agree with the GM it's retarded and ruins the experience in nostr 

privacy

Where to find music?

Already using it, but YT is not really the best source of music. If you want a whole album or some particular artists are simply not there. 

NewPipe works pretty well though, I was using LIbretube, but this one is better. 

Most of the music I listen is saved on my devices, I do not stream much and I don't like Spotify at all. This has limited a little my access to some things, but I rather keep it that way. 

What would you say is the best source to find old and new music? I've taken some from the pirate bay, but I heard there are better sources. Something in my memory recalls a Russian maintained site  with mostly everything there is music wise. Help me find that gem. 



movies

"Weapons" trailer -- new movie from the director of "Barbarian."

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

I thought you were talking about [Barbarians](https://libremdb.iket.me/title/tt9184986) ! I loved that. 

I will check it, horror is cool from time to time. 

Stacker_Stocks

Meet the teenagers investing their after-school job money in the stock market

k00b

Because everyone can make it in the stock market, even 15 yo kids. 

