Stacker News Fiction Month entriesStacker News Fiction Month entries
- Saudade by @TotallyHumanWriter
- Dawn of the Shimmering City by @n00n
- The Return of Satoshi by @karanjbhatia
- The Bitcoin Spiderverse by @MaaliMKen
- Power Line by @GreaterthanFiction
- OpenAIDS 10 by @k00b
- The Seed Poem by @SymbolSatoshi
- It Takes Two by @519c1710cf
- The Trust Museum by @jbschirtzinger
- In Hodlers We Trust by @MaaliMKen
- The Message by @guerratotal
- The Legend of the Hunter by @hasherstacker
- Memetic Trade & Finance (from your favorite Professor) by @bitcoingraffiti
- The Halving: Block 1,260,000 by @GreaterthanFiction
- What if there was a new myth to believe in by @plebpoet
- Trust by @DuneMessias
- EEE from Scrap Silicon Valley by @MaaliMKen
- The Neo-Hellenistic Secessionist (Dec 19, 2176) by @bitcoingraffiti
- The Composite Man — An introductory letter from ur favy market manipulator by @bitcoingraffiti
- Star Crackin' --Flash fiction w/ your favorite characters from outer space by @bitcoingraffiti
- VR boys by @plebpoet
- Different Roads Same Moon by @GreaterthanFiction
- The Zone of Obscurity by @bitcoingraffiti
- 2223 (A "The Citadel" story) by @eduardopro
- The Magnificient Diary of Mary Elizabeth Melville, Esq by @voxmagdalenea
- Hardware Robot by @MaaliMKen
- "The Awakening. Part One" by @8d5ba92c8c
- Parallels by @SimpleStacker
- The window by @guerratotal
- Trust Fallout by @daolin
- The end of an age, the beginning of some other by @plebpoet
- Ninety Days of the Unexpected by @hasherstacker
- The Ask by @TheFictionFactory
- Not one Satoshi by @GreaterThanFiction
- Trust Fallout Part 2 by @daolin
- Harbinger City by @KTmorley
- 3D Chess by @MaaliMKen
- Bad Iron - Pilot by @daolin
- Sagas of the Lincoln County War by @billytheked
- A Simple Limitless Universal Trust
- Low Tide by @TheFictionFactory
- The Saga of the 210 Stackers of the Meshfire by @hasherstacker
- The Flower that Refused to Die by @dot
- Sick of Circles (Epilogue)
- A young man, his unidentified feeling, and an emergent idea by @plebpoet
- The Price We Deserve by @daolin
- The Last Miner by @GreaterthanFiction
- Sagas of the Lincoln County War Part 1 Cont’d by @billytheked
- Steve Roach, Mint Salesman by @Scoresby
- The Convergeance Tales(123,456,789.987654321) by @daolin
- Talent Show Shakeup by @realBitcoinDog
- Good Morning Badger Batalion by @Marc26z
- They called themselves the Stackers by @grayruby
- Die a Friend or Live a Foe by @didiplaywell
- Arrival by @OneOneSeven
- Rigged (The Convergence Tales - Digicoin) by @daolin
- Remember to take your infomins by @cleophas
Job well done @Scoresby! And much appreciate the wonderful and inspiring stories all Stackers.
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Who?
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Is it being judged on actual ability and content or popularity? Ill be the first to say I absolutely do not think I am the best here, however I can clearly see there seems to be a popularity contest happening if we are judging by sats...
The top ten by zaprank (SN's combination of sats and trusts), the 100k sat grand prize will be judged on merits of the story.
I've been a writer for so long the distinction doesn't matter to me either way. Call it the "zen of being a writer".
curious 🧐 interesting, is the distinction that you mean to describe between popularity and content?
It had to be addressed.
We actually discussed it among ourselves. It is a good question. When I award sats for best five posts in the bitcoin beginner territory, I stopped being bound by strict zaprank. In practice, it has turned out to usually be accurate, at least from my narrow and probably biased perspective. Either that or I'm lazy. I do reserve veto power there. I do think zaprank should be used in judging, but I wrestle with how much it should be relied upon.
win/lose. Popular/unpopular. Victory/defeat. None of that matters if you have nothing to prove. The world will love you and hate you if you live hard enough in it. It's fickle.
I believe you and can confirm in fiat world this is the case. And I would echo I feel I have nothing to prove.
On the other hand this is a very singular experiment, the value of this contest being expressed in bitcoin
While I appreciate that it is new to you, I was around when Bitcoin was unleashed along with some others around here I'm sure. The only reason it became valuable in the first place was due to Wikileaks. It sat around for quite some time before that. This, of course, implies that some people with fiat money had to get behind it, which by extension means that the custody of the chain was screwed around with and the network format that it was designed to model was changed. Hence, Bitcoin will value what its keepers value as a primary rule. Since its kingdom was built on Wikileaks, which held a lot of nasty kinds of things in its files, it will have a huge challenge to overcome supporting "dirty" things versus "clean" things.
What I like about the experiment is that it can change the publishing chain of command--I don't realistically expect it to reflect the value of the pieces involved, but admit it would be a pleasant surprise.
what are you talking about?
My apologies. I figured that someone as smart as you seem to be when it comes to Bitcoin knew what is common knowledge concerning this part of bitcoin history, but it looks like I erred in that assessment: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2019/04/26/how-bitcoin-and-wikileaks-saved-each-other/
I hope a couple of these stories get published in @plebpoet next zine, or maybe a special edition!
@Car and @k00b should read the winning story on their pod!
Special anthology, for sure. Make some sweet hardcover editions.
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definitely will announce, k00b hates when i read the comments, so i doubt that will happen
I’ll offer to read it (I have a great reading voice, @DarthCoin said so)
haha deal
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quite a few stories are in the zine over the last month. at least 6!
winner should get a feature - I only have 8 pages tho lol
I know this is said so often insincerely, and I don't mean this in "everybody should get a trophy" way, but in this case it's true. It is a shame that there are only 10 (or 11) winners. I'm going to do my best to make sure that overlooked gems in this batch get deserved exposure.
Participation ribbons?
Thanks @siggy47 had you in mind when I wrote Different Roads Same Moon. Another reminder about the importance of friendship above all else.
57 entries? That's a huge success, if you ask me. I didn't read them all, just a few, which is probably not fair because I only zapped a couple. But big props to all the participants and especially to the organizers @Scoresby and @siggy47!
Started slow but this ended up being an amazing initiative!
Deadlines be that way, haha!
It was truly a fantastic experience for me to participate in this event. I know I'm not going to win, not even close, but it was incredibly special for me, not only to write but also to read the stories of the other forum members. It awakened a talent I didn't even know I had.
I hope to have better entries for the next edition and to have learned to write better.
When does Fiction Month end and is it a monthly competition?
Fiction month was August, so now we are just waiting for the judges to read all the stories and award the grand prize.
This was the first year for Stacker News Fiction Month, but I bet it will be a yearly or twice-a-yearly event.
Fiction Month was a roaring success, if you ask me. Congratulations to the organizers and to each an every one of the 57 writers.
Thank you for this initiative, I really enjoyed writing my story, it was a great opportunity to dust off :)
fantastic
You heard em cowboys.
Zap Talent Show Shakeup!! ⚡️ #1200374
Who doesn’t love high school body swap cringe??
There’s no ego in amigo
Excited can’t wait to hear the prizes and continue to read more stories!
Can’t believe two years have flown by since I joined in March 2023! It’s been a great experience using the Stacker.News project. Really impressed with the way you’re developing it—keep up the awesome work!
It was an excellent initiative, I really enjoyed each one of the stories, and I look forward to the final result.
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