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BenJustman | 3 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 Noooooo but alcohol is a shitcoin!

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Egge | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wine is the most bitcoiny thing next to Bitcoin.
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BenJustman | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 crazy how it be like that
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Egge | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I truly think there are many parallels. What made me fall in love with wine is its authenticity and scarcity.

Some wines become irreproducible because of a change in fauna, or a change in climate or simply because a winemaker died and had no heirs.

Of course this is not the same cryptographic-secured irreproducibility, but I believe it is the next closest thing.
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Low Information Voter | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Only if the oxygen content is very low and the alcohol content is very high.

I do like me a good aged port, but a lot of cheaply-bottled wine is only fit for salad dressing after three years in the rack.
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Egge | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Right. I am definitely talking about high quality, artisan wines that tell a story about a terroir.

Not the cheap, one-fits-all pinot gris from the supermarket