Yes, there is a wine ingredient called Mega Purple

And it's more common than you’d think.

Once you know how to spot it, you’ll taste it everywhere.

And you’ll never look at cheap red wine the same way again. 🧵🍷

Mega Purple is a thick, sweet, inky extract made from a grape called Rubired.

Just a small dose adds deep color, smooth texture, and a candied finish to otherwise forgettable wine.

It’s grape-derived—but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

It started as a way to rescue weak vintages. But now it’s everywhere.

If you’re drinking wine from a box, or paying under $15 a bottle, especially for jammy reds—there’s a good chance Mega Purple is in the mix.

Think of it as a type of pancake style makeup for wine.

You won’t find it on the label. Wine doesn’t have to list ingredients.

But there are signs:

- Over-the-top purple color

- Sticky sweetness

- Flavors like grape jelly, vanilla extract, and artificial chocolate

Mega Purple is often used to mask poor fruit—like overcropped vines, underripe grapes, or wine rushed through fermentation.

And if it’s in there, it probably came with friends:

Velcorin, powdered tannins, added sugar, oak flavoring, enzymes, coloring agents.

At that point, it’s more of a science experiment than wine.

Wine made with better grapes and fewer tricks costs more.

That wine tells a story. Real terroir, real flavors, real art.

But more importantly, Low Intervention wine will probably leave you feeling a hell of a lot better the day after drinking it.

What's that worth?

Most people have no idea what’s actually in their wine.

I’ll be posting more about how to find bottles worth drinking and how to see past the veil the industry hides behind.

If this helped you, it'd help me if you liked or reNOSTed the first post or followed along!

Cheers!

GM #Nostr

This week in the White House:

Art swaps are sending signals louder than words.

This isn’t just decor. It’s a declaration. Symbols matter.

Are you watching the walls or reading between the lines?

Don’t waste sats on fiat pigs.

They’ll dump truth for scraps.

Preach where it matters.

GN #Nostr.

Stack #Bitcoin.

Stay Humble.

🔴 What They Don’t Teach You About Modern Empires:

You’ve been told occupations ended with colonialism.

But here’s the truth:

Nations are still seizing land in 2025.

And no one’s stopping them.

Active military occupations happening right now:

• Russia holds parts of Ukraine, #Georgia, #Moldova

• #Israel controls #Palestine: #Gaza, the #WestBank, parts of #Syria and #Lebanon

• #Turkey occupies zones across Syria and #Cyprus

• The U.S. maintains a foothold in #Syria

• #Ukraine now controls land inside #Russia

• #Morocco dominates Western #Sahara

• #Azerbaijan & #Armenia have traded occupations across borders

This isn’t history, it’s now.

Borders are being redrawn through force, and freedom is the price.

Still think the world plays by rules#Nostr? #Bitcoin doesn’t need a seat at this table. It just walks away from it.

Us Real Bitcoiners?

Tiny minority of Bitcoin holders.

Bitcoin holders?

Tiny fraction of the global population.

And the global population?

Mostly obedient, risk-averse sheeple waiting for permission to act.

Yes, majority of node runners, are the heartbeat of #Bitcoin. But let’s not kid ourselves: the soul of Bitcoin is sound money, and most people still want comfort, not sovereignty.

If adoption explodes without education,

we’re just building a shinier fiat system on harder rails #Nostr.

Everyone’s cheering for nation-state adoption.

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿.

When Bitcoin becomes a reserve asset, three things happen fast:

→ More legitimacy

→ Institutional demand

→ Massive on-ramping of capital

But here’s the part most don’t talk about ↓

With reserve asset status comes regulation.

Serious regulation.

The kind that makes self-custody harder.

You’ll hear the usual lines:

“National #security.”

“Systemic risk controls.”

“Anti-money laundering.”

And before you know it:

→ Self-custody is “dangerous”

→ Custodial KYC becomes “best practice”

→ Ownership shifts from individuals to institutions

That’s the trade-off.

More #adoption ≠ more #freedom.

Not unless we fight to protect the core of what makes Bitcoin valuable:

𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Yes, reserve asset status is a milestone.

But #Bitcoin doesn’t win by being big. It wins by staying sovereign.

Adoption is easy to cheer for.

Freedom is harder to defend.

Let’s not confuse the two #Nostr.

𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘐 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦.

#Bitcoin doesn’t care about credentials. it exposes shallow understanding fast. Institutions that treat it like a volatile asset instead of a volatile signal from the future are sleepwalking into irrelevance.

🟪 The goal isn't to eliminate risk, it's to structure it well enough to act.

There was a time when uncertainty used to slow me down.

I’d get stuck in the loop:

Wait for more clarity.

Recheck assumptions.

Delay the decision.

But clarity doesn’t always come.

And inaction can quietly become its own kind of risk.

So I started focusing on what I could control:

→ Getting better data

→ Understanding risk from first principles

→ Making smaller, smarter moves - not bigger, bolder guesses

I didn’t try to remove risk.

I just started structuring it differently.

What helped was thinking in barbell terms:

Keep one side grounded: stable, proven, resilient.

Use the other side for calculated upside.

And when things still felt uncertain?

I leaned on something simple:

Move forward, adjust fast.

Sometimes the best decisions aren’t made with full certainty

they’re made with enough certainty to act.

And that’s usually all you need #Nostr