Stacker News Monthly: August 2025

Welcome to this month's edition of Stacker News Monthly! Today we're going to take a look back at the month of August 2025!

It was an especially wordy month with the Fiction Month Contest going on. This month, 622 stackers wrote 1,229,689 words across 4,089 posts and 18,361 comments, earning a total of 2,477,268 sats, for an average of 2.01 sats per word, and 2.48 sats per word on posts.

Let's take a look at how things performed in August, with a special deep dive into FM entries at the end!

Note: I'm still refining the methodology, so the numbers this month are not comparable to the numbers from July.

Top Stackers

Here were the top stackers for the month of August:

Top Earner

Measured by total sats across all items

Stacker	Sats	Posts	Comments	Favorite Word
@Scoresby	164,024	157	731	bitcoin
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist	161,086	34	68	bitcoin
@siggy47	99,127	133	419	bitcoin
@Coinsreporter	82,904	187	473	runs
@k00b	79,611	70	415	sats

Congratulations to @Scoresby for stacking the most sats in August!

Most Active

Measured by total number of items posted

Stacker	Items	Posts	Comments	Sats	Favorite Word
@grayruby	1,039	52	987	68,358	49ers
@Undisciplined	950	57	893	61,212	thread
@BlokchainB	933	114	819	50,766	ai
@Scoresby	888	157	731	164,024	bitcoin
@Coinsreporter	660	187	473	82,904	runs

Congratulations to @grayruby for being the most active stacker in August!

Highest Signal

Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)

Stacker	Sats/Post	Post Sats	Posts	Favorite Word
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist	4,717	160,364	34	bitcoin
@SimpleStacker	2,870	34,443	12	abs
@plebpoet	2,469	32,099	13	professor
@028559d218	2,314	13,884	6	bitcoin
@GreaterthanFiction	2,048	12,291	6	bitcoin

Congratulations to @Jimmyhoneyalchemist for delivering the highest signal commentary in August!

Wordiest

Measured by number of words written

Stacker	Words	Posts	Items	Sats	Favorite Word
@Scoresby	78,934	157	888	164,024	bitcoin
@Rothbardian_fanatic	54,774	56	188	10,437	state
@BlokchainB	48,339	114	933	50,766	ai
@optimism	41,914	25	583	58,660	ai
@realBitcoinDog	40,439	68	357	41,407	abs

Congratulations to @Scoresby for being the wordiest stacker in August!

Most Laconic

Measured by number of sats per word (minimum 100 words)

Stacker	Sats/Word	Sats	Words	Favorite Word
@jb55	57	8,045	141	cln
@BitcoinNews	36	5,805	161	bitcoin
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist	23	161,086	6,931	bitcoin
@theariard	20	14,546	725	bitcoin
@itsTomekK	16	8,510	534	000

Congratulations to @jb55 for conveying the most meaning with the fewest number of words in August!

Top Territories

Here were the top territories for the month of August:

Top Earning

Measured by total sats earned on both posts and comments

Stacker	Sats	Posts	Comments	Favorite Word
~bitcoin	373,283	564	2,770	bitcoin
~Stacker_Sports	256,375	376	2,692	runs
~BooksAndArticles	254,921	134	705	bitcoin
~the_stacker_muse	175,646	49	155	life
~AI	160,603	307	1,087	ai

Congratulations to ~bitcoin territory for stacking the most sats in August!

Highest Signal

Measured by the highest number of sats per post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)

Stacker	Sats/Post	Post Sats	Posts	Favorite Word
~the_stacker_muse	3,489	170,948	49	life
~BooksAndArticles	1,510	202,364	134	bitcoin
~meta	993	83,426	84	comments
~Travel	818	10,637	13	bitcoin
~privacy	818	11,455	14	tools

Congratulations to ~the_stacker_muse territory for delivering the highest signal in August!

Hottest Discussion

Measured by the highest number of comments per new post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)

Stacker	Comments/Post	Posts	Comments	Sats	Favorite Word
~oracle	10.9	12	131	12,882	sats
~AskSN	10.8	124	1,338	102,139	bitcoin
~privacy	7.9	14	110	21,229	tools
~meta	7.4	84	623	131,805	comments
~Stacker_Sports	7.2	376	2,694	256,375	runs

Congratulations to ~oracle territory for generating the most discussion in August!

Top Words

And finally, here were the top words for the month of August:

By Frequency

Measured by the total number of times the term appears in posts and comments

Word	Frequency	Sats
bitcoin	5,743	30,857
abs	5,654	936
sats	1,951	8,992
ai	1,940	11,871
money	1,397	8,345
world	1,086	6,909
comments	945	3,898
lightning	940	6,618
real	915	5,322
august	832	2,124

By Sats

Each word is allocated sats from its item based on its relative frequency of appearance in the item

Word	Frequency	Sats
bitcoin	5,743	30,857
ai	1,940	11,871
sats	1,951	8,992
money	1,397	8,345
love	620	7,163
stackers	454	7,095
world	1,086	6,909
data	753	6,623
lightning	940	6,618
read	709	6,314

Fiction Month!

As you all know, August 2025 has been a wildly successful Fiction Month here on Stacker News. @Scoresby, @TotallyHumanWriter, and @siggy47 will be hard at work reading through the entries and awarding the winners this week, but in the meantime, let's take a look at some fun statistics about our fiction month entries!

According to my calculations¹, there were a total of 56 Fiction Month entries submitted by 29 stackers, totalling 95,978 words and earning 163,145 sats, for an average of 1.70 sats per word. I was a bit disappointed that FM didn't attract a greater number of sats per word, but that's probably because these posts tend to be a lot wordier than the typical post generating a lot of discussion about bitcoin.

Unsurprisingly, the favorite word among Fiction Month entries was trust, as that was indeed the theme of the contest!

For some superlatives, we have the following:

Congratulations to @8d5ba92c8c for the most zapped FM entry: [FM] "THE AWAKENING. Part One." by AZA_21m, with 18,126 sats! You earned it!
Congratulations to @realBitcoinDog for the most commented FM entry: [FM] Talent Show Shakeup - @realBitcoinDog takes you to high school to cringe 😬, with 95 comments! I suppose bribery pays off!
Congratulations to @n00n for the longest FM entry: [FM] Dawn of the Shimmering City, with 4,231 words! Writing that many words is no mean feat, so congratulations!
Congratulations to @karanjbhatia for the FM entry earning the most sats per word: [FM] The Return Of Satoshi, with 98.12 sats per word! You are the highest paid fiction writer on Stacker.News!

Lastly, I asked ChatGPT to classify the genre of each of the stories, from a list of genres I gave it. Here are the results:

Dystopian Science Fiction:
Utopian Science Fiction:
Historical or Political Fiction:
- [FM] The Zone of Obscurity by @bitcoingraffiti
- [FM] Sagas of the Lincoln County War by @billytheked
Slice of Life:
Mystery, Horror, Suspense, or Thriller:
Comedy:
- [FM] The Neo-Hellenistic Secessionist (Dec 19, 2176) by @bitcoingraffiti
- [FM] Star Crackin' — Flash fiction w/ your favorite characters from outer space by @bitcoingraffiti
Fantasy:
- [FM] Talent Show Shakeup - @realBitcoinDog takes you to high school to cringe 😬 by @realBitcoinDog
- [FM] A Simple Limitless Universal Trust by @n00n
- [FM] The Flower That Refused to Die by @dot
Other:

Do you agree with ChatGPT's classifications? Or is Chat just trippin'?

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this edition of Stacker News Monthly! Remember, stay humble and stack sats.

I counted only 56 entries, likely due to a time zone difference in my API selection script. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to fix the issue, so I apologize to whoever's entry I left out of the stats! ↩

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @GreaterthanFiction 2 Sep

Great summary of what’s been happening! Would have been good to see stats on FM of the one account who contributed the most stories/words.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 2 Sep

Fantastic work! My fellow stacker!

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep

Very well done! Yes I agree with my classification. Very smart from ChatGPT, it could have got easily confused from my permanent mention of utopian elements yet it grasped the concept. I'm impressed.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 2 Sep

I'm going for sci-fi/mystery, maybe it's too short to get a sense at the moment.

49 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 2 Sep

i detected the mystery, for the record

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 2 Sep

It's pretty imperfect, and most stories are mixed genres. Mine could've been any of Dystopian, Utopian, Political Fiction, and Slice of Life, depending on which way you look at it.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 2 Sep

These posts are amazing. Eventually, we need to add a bunch of functionality to the analytics page so we can each dink around on this stuff.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 2 Sep

My shoestring spaghetti code I use to put these together is probably too sloppy for k00b et al haha.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 2 Sep

lol. the neo-hellenistic secessionist is comedy? I guess it is. It's more like mytho-scifi, but okay, i'm happy it's not in the 'other' box. 🤣

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 2 Sep

comedy in the greek sense maybe? Haha. But given the podcast voice, I can see how it would be interpreted as comedy.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 2 Sep

yes indeed, it's neo-greco comedy. you're absolutely right

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 2 Sep

Historical ~~or Political~~ Fiction:

can confirm

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker 2 Sep

Awesome! I love how you pulled all the stats together.

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 3 Sep

Abs will be THE MOST FREQUENTLY DISCUSSED WORD on Stacker News!!

Haha we’ll see if bribery literally pays off, but the contest is judged by zap rank not comments

The word limit for the contest was 4k so it’s a bad thing to go over that

Clearly my high school body swap drama is everyone’s fantasy!

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 3 Sep

abs was my top word this month too

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @realBitcoinDog 4 Sep

We will proudly discuss our abs

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 4 Sep

Yo, abs bro

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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @karanjbhatia 4 Sep

"FM entry earning the most sats per word: [FM] The Return Of Satoshi, with 98.12 sats per word! You are the highest paid fiction writer on Stacker.News!"

FeelsGoodMan.jpg It feels nice to read about your work when put it in THIS way, haha, thank you, but statistics lie and I know for a fact that I'm not that good of a writer. Maybe because of the screenplay format, my entry had fewer words. But it's nice to get some focus on the entry, howsoever, just before the final judging.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @8d5ba92c8c 12 Sep

Cool! Thanks the summary :))) Full of valuable info.

I'm also incredibly happy to see that my story was so well-received by the Stacker News users. Yaaay!!! A few more (still in drafts) are waiting to be published ;)

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