When the average Nostr user shows up at the jungle house.

Wen Fort Knox audit?

The fee market will decide if its worth the squeeze ;)

It's ok, you can say it here

Fair enough, hahah

Ironically seems like the juice of censorship aint worth the squeeze, as long as so few people actually use btc peer to peer. There is so much opt in to custodians and security that why even bother.

So we are not quite fucked yet ;)

Why are we fucked?

I mean not seeing TXs getting censored, still preventing double-spends. So the Bitcoin network works pretty good.

The government gets hacked all the time, but Turbotax has a field to enter addresses.

A sophisticated attacker can see how much change you have. These dumb-ass laws make tax collection a security hole.

Three corporations control over half of the wine sold in the U.S.

That number climbs closer to 70% if you add their private labels.

So when you’re staring at a wall of wine in the store…

You’re not choosing between hundreds of options.

You’re choosing between clones.

E. & J. Gallo

The Wine Group

Constellation Brands

Together, they own or produce dozens of brands and you’d never guess many were related.

Different labels. Same playbook.

This matters because it changes how wine is made.

At that scale, winemakers aim for consistency.

Not character.

A Cabernet is supposed to “taste like a Cabernet,” no matter what year it is or where the grapes came from.

To get there, they use tools that shape the final product:

• MegaPurple for Color

• Excessive Sulfites for Preservation

• Acid, alcohol, and sugar adjustments

These tools aren’t unusual.

and when the goal is volume, they’re essential and used excessively.

The result: most wines on the shelf start to taste the same.

And for some people, the chemical tweaks may be the cause of your headaches or other side effects.

This kind of standardization is most visible in the U.S. especially in California, where industrial winemaking is most developed.

While there are boutique wines sprinkled around, there wasn't a long enough wine tradition to keep corporate profit interests out of the production process.

If you want to find wine that tastes unique, here are a few ways to start:

• Ask your local shop for small producers

• Try local wines when you travel

• Or default to French and Italian wines, which often use fewer additives and standardizations

Most wine drinkers aren’t thinking about this and that’s the point.

Once you start noticing, the whole shelf looks different.

If this gave you value, please zap or reNOST.

I'll be sharing more soon!

I always wait 'till the last minute to do my taxes.🤮

who's someone that has been banned from legacy social media and now exclusively uses nostr instead? #asknostr

gm

is it easy to de google android phones or only pixel phones work the best ?

Awesome 👏👏👏

I'm not editing my comment.

What do you mean?

Y'all think the Bitcoin Magazine conference in Vegas has anyone building the Bitcoin circular economy?

Or is "Using Bitcoin" just gonna be a LARP again?

Do you have examples of such tech?

Like, is there a freedom tech that masked its non-permissionlessness so well that it wasn't obvious until much later?

Only thing I can think of with me is Simplex, I used it for years but then discovered it's not censorship-resistant. Then again, not sure if they ever promoted it like that, I just knew it was the most private option.

7d or 24H

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 ☕️

GM 🌞👀☕

what year is it