Happy Sat-urday Stackers,

Have a great weekend!

Top PostsTop Posts

1. Socialism In Plain Sight
   • @kepford lists off economic sectors where socialism-like systems dominate and asks for others.
   • 3.3k sats \ 56 comments \ @kepford
2. They tried to scam me on the telegram bot (lnp2pBot)
   • @bief57 evaded a scam when using the popular telegram p2p bitcoin exchange bot.
   • 3.1k sats \ 13 comments \ @bief57
3. The cheapest Lightning setup that actually works (tested in Cuba)
   • @claos545 hints at cheap lightning setups they're allegedly using in Cuba.
   • 7.8k sats \ 23 comments \ @claos545
4. 1,333,337 Sats Withheld in Controversial Writing Competition
   • @TotallyHumanWriter airs their frustrations with an X-based writing competition that withheld payouts.
   • 1.9k sats \ 29 comments \ @TotallyHumanWriter
5. Sharing the code for Bitcoin Backbone full-node
   • @theariard shares their new full-node implementation written in Rust that uses libbitcoinkernel for consensus.
   • 3.1k sats \ 20k boost \ 5 comments \ @theariard

Top Fiction MonthTop Fiction Month

• [FM] OpenAIDS 10
  • 3.9k sats \ 18 comments \ @k00b
• The Seed Poem by SymbolSatoshi
  • 5.1k sats \ 10k boost \ 12 comments \ @SymbolSatoshi
• [FM] - The Message
  • 2k sats \ 13 comments \ @guerratotal
• [FM] Power Line
  • 2.7k sats \ 8 comments \ @GreaterthanFiction
• [FM] The Trust Museum
  • 1.7k sats \ 2 comments \ @jbschirtzinger
• [FM] The Return Of Satoshi
  • 1.6k sats \ 6 comments \ @karanjbhatia
• [FM] - The Bitcoin Spiderverse
  • 2.9k sats \ 4 comments \ @MaaliMKen
• [FM] - In Hodlers We Trust
  • 479 sats \ 5 comments \ @MaaliMKen

Don't missDon't miss

• $83 Billion Wasted: Showing Up At The Airport 3 Hours Before Your Flight
• How would you deal with this uncomfortable conversation situation?
• Could inverse PageRank save us from boring sequels?
• Breedlove Orange Pilled My Wife
• Let's Keep Bitcoin Small and Irrelevant (Bitcoin Magazine, JB)
• Mullvad accepting lightning payments
• What's going on with bfx-lnd1?
• Stock Markets YOLOing into Bitcoin (Financial Times Big Read, Nikou Asgari)
• Vibe code is legacy code - Val Town post
• lightning++ is programming payments || 2+3+4 Oct 2025, Berlin

all of this week's top posts

Top metaTop meta

• SNZ #20 IT'S FICTION MONTH
• Growing Stacker News From The Bottom Uprising
• SN release: more live-r live comments w/ auto-show
• What are you working on this week?
• WORD-OF-MOUTH THURSDAY! WIN 20K SATS!
• This Day on SN: August 6

all of this week's meta

Top Monday memeTop Monday meme

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all monday memes

Top StackersTop Stackers

1. @siggy47: 115.8k sats stacked
2. @Scoresby: 66.1k sats stacked
3. @grayruby: 55.4k sats stacked
4. @Undisciplined: 46.4k sats stacked
5. @optimism: 43.7k sats stacked

Top SpendersTop Spenders

1. @Scoresby: 100.2k sats spent
2. @siggy47: 92.8k sats spent
3. @optimism: 69.7k sats spent
4. @Public_N_M_E: 59.6k sats spent
5. @Bell_curve: 55.4k sats spent

Top CowboysTop Cowboys

1. @siggy47: 861 days
2. @Undisciplined: 683 days
3. @BlokchainB: 662 days
4. @grayruby: 626 days
5. @Coinsreporter: 464 days

Top BoostsTop Boosts

1. RGB yellowpaper: the formal specification of Bitcoin & Lightning smart contracts
2. BTCHEL2025 takes place in 21 days!
3. RGB consensus layer released to production
4. How To Fix The Economics Of Online Content? With Keyan Kousha & Stacker News
5. Sharing the code for Bitcoin Backbone full-node

all active boosts

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