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Ben JustmanšŸ·
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Owner/Winemaker at Peony Lane Wine Low Sulfite wine from the highest elevation vineyards in šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Governor's Cup Award Winner 2022, 2023, 2024 Host of @SoakQuest - Make Bitcoin Fun Again

Will post about spirits soon.

I love whiskey and tequila man. Beer every so often. Not trying to demonize, just educate.

I think so, but my money isn't on the line

this shit is gonna happen. Many of them will fail.

If I were going to bet, I'd say the ones run by legit bitcoiners are less likely to fail than others.

I used to think alcohol was alcohol.

Beer...Wine. They both got me drunk.

Then I started paying attention.

To how beer left me foggy.

And how wine didn’t.

Here’s what I found šŸŗšŸ·šŸ§µ

Wine and Beer Start From Different Foundations

Wine is made from fermented grapes.

Beer is made from fermented grains.

That difference really matters.

Grapes naturally contain compounds that survive fermentation and end up in your glass. These include polyphenols, which have been studied for their ability to reduce inflammation, support blood vessels, and protect cells from oxidative stress.

Beer starts with starch. After fermentation, most commercial beer is filtered, pasteurized, and standardized. That strips out nearly all of the byproducts that might offer anything beyond alcohol and empty calories.

Both wine and beer can include additives that aren't listed on the label. But with wines, more of the beneficial compounds tend to stay in. It is also easier to find low-intervention wines with few additives, and there is a stronger culture of traceability in wine. People care who grew the grapes, how they were grown, and where.

You can find good beer and bad wine.

But at the baseline, wine has more going for it.

Blood Sugar and the Crash

Most people chalk up how they feel after drinking to ā€œjust a hangover.ā€

But part of that foggy, sluggish feeling is driven by blood sugar swings.

Wine, especially dry red wine, has virtually no residual sugar. During fermentation, yeast consumes the natural grape sugars. A standard glass of dry red often contains less than 1 gram of sugar.

Beer, on the other hand, contains maltose and residual starch, both of which break down quickly into glucose. This gives it a higher glycemic load, especially when consumed without food or in large quantities. Blood sugar spikes, insulin rises, and then comes the crash.

Alcohol itself makes this worse.

It inhibits gluconeogenesis, which is your liver’s ability to produce glucose when blood sugar runs low. That makes it harder for your body to recover once blood sugar drops.

This is why beer often leaves you drained and cloudy, even after just a couple.

Wine avoids about as much of that as possible. Less sugar spike. Less crash.

Antioxidants and Inflammation

Red wine contains polyphenols like resveratrol, quercetin, and anthocyanins.

These compounds have been studied for their role in reducing inflammation and protecting blood vessels.

Beer contains some antioxidants from hops and barley, but at much lower levels.

The process of filtration and pasteurization removes most of what might help.

If you’re going to drink, wine actually gives your body something to work with.

Hormonal Effects

Beer contains hops, and hops contain a compound called 8-prenylnaringenin.

It’s a powerful phytoestrogen, meaning it acts like estrogen in the body.

In high enough quantities, it can start shifting hormone levels.

Chronic beer consumption has been linked to lower testosterone, reduced libido, and, in some cases, increased body fat in areas like the manboob.

Wine doesn’t contain estrogenic compounds like this.

Some of the polyphenols in red wine may even slow down how fast your body breaks down testosterone. One lab study found a reduction in testosterone clearance by up to 70 percent.

Beer increases estrogen.

Wine slows testosterone loss.

Transparency and Sourcing

Neither beer nor wine is required to list all ingredients or additives on the label.

That means you're often drinking blind unless you know the producer.

With wine, it's usually easier to trace the origin.

There’s a stronger culture around knowing who grew the grapes and how the wine was made.

Beer doesn’t have that same emphasis on sourcing.

It’s possible, but less common.

If you want to drink better, ask questions and buy from people who can answer them.

Not all alcohol is created equal.

Beer gives you sugar spikes, estrogenic compounds, and fewer nutrients.

Wine gives you antioxidants, lower sugar, and for guys, a possible hormonal edge.

I’m not saying wine is a health drink.

But switching from beer to wine might actually make you feel better.

I’ve noticed it myself. I rarely drink beer anymore.

Curious if anyone else has had the same experience.

The anti-Mallers takes are wild rn man.

This chart shenanigans gets people because our brain doesn't read things on the bottom right of a page very well.

WOAH YOUR CHART LINES UP WITH BITCOIN CRAZY WELLšŸ‘€

It also calls for $16k Bitcoin.

Rekt.

Most businesses have access to a line of credit built for specific short term needs like this

Just paid for my Lawnmower repair in winešŸ·

Someone should disrupt BuzzBot by charging less than 10% Fee

By fiat, I declare this next one to be the last one

It's yours

Iwent into this thinking "my dad will teach me ahow to make wine" committed my life savings to it and found out 2 hours into winemaking that he had no idea what he was foing

Who made this perfect algorithm?

I'm not here to tell anyone what to do with their money.

All I'm saying is that in spending either Bitcoin or dollars with the express intention of spending it out of Bitcoin business, you can change the world

Glad it worked for those people and appreciate the experiment. Finding a "solution" for this is my biggest curiousity when it comes to Nostr esp when thinking about growing and maintaining adoption.

Replying to Avatar Soak Quest

Founders are a rare breed.

They’re the ones who break through the fear of being judged and actually build something.

In the Bitcoin circular economy, there’s an arbitrage opportunity, not just in the products, but in recognizing and supporting the people who have the guts to try.

Most startups don’t work.

And often, it’s not because the idea was bad—but because no one was honest with the founder about product-market fit.

Here’s the truth:

If you think you have product-market fit, you don’t.

You know when you have it.

Product-market fit feels like being yanked forward by both nostrils.

Your servers break.

Your inbox explodes.

Customers are mad—not because they hate it, but because they want more.

You can’t think about anything else because the demand is overwhelming.

Some describe it like wearing a hot dog suit in a wolf pack.

Everyone wants what you have.

That should be the bar for products in the Bitcoin economy.

You can’t fake product-market fit. Not as a founder, and not as a customer.

As a founder, you either solve a real problem better than anything else, or you create an experience that changes people’s lives.

As a customer, you either feel it—or you don’t.

That’s what’s WorthTheSats.

The opportunity we have is twofold:

1. Be honest with founders.

Help them learn whether they’ve hit product-market fit or not—fast.

2. Support the ones who keep building.

Even if the first thing doesn’t work, we should recognize the founder mindset. That savage energy is rare. You can teach product testing. You can’t teach the drive to build.

So try products.

Give honest feedback.

Help founders see where to pivot or double down.

That’s how we build the Bitcoin economy—by honoring time, talent, and truth.

What do Bitcoiners want?

So you're not willing to have a nuanced discussion? 🫔

Bitcoiners are the best customers I’ve ever had.

They’re loyal. They rebuy. They tell their friends.

They want you to win—and they’ll help make it happen.

And right now, almost NO ONE is building for them.

That means there’s still time to become the Bitcoin-aligned brand in your category.

In most industries, Bitcoiners don’t have a default go-to.

No trusted shop, no favorite label, no company that ā€œgets them.ā€

That could be you.

And once they pick their brand, they don’t switch easily.

You don’t have to become a bitcoin company.

You don’t need to ditch dollars.

You don’t need to be perfect.

Just make something good.

Accept bitcoin (not crypto).

And let people know who you’re aligned with.

I did it with wine.

Now Bitcoiners are 100% of my customer base.

Not because I ran some flawless playbook—

but because I paid attention to the right customers and leaned in.

Bitcoiners are your perfect customer.

They don’t need gimmicks.

They just want to know you see them.

The lift is minimal.

The downside is basically zero.

The upside? Tremendous.

We're looking to spread this experience to extremely high quality brands via nostr:nprofile1qqsqkaay6mxplgv3f9z0ep0rq4w8jrte3rvcm43xd2cgehsjevglmdcqewx80 and need to hear back from bitcoiners as to what makes a company a "bitcoin company" that you would support like this?

ā€œWhy limit myself to just bitcoin? I’ll take any crypto people want to pay with.ā€

But saying Bitcoin Only isn’t about exclusion.

It’s about speaking directly to the only group that will move the needle for your business: Bitcoiners.

They’re the best customers you’ve never targeted.

As a Bitcoiner, do you agree with this assertion?

They already do šŸ˜‰