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Stacker News Monthly August 2025 - FM Edition!
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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
StackerSatsPostsCommentsFavorite Word
@Scoresby164,024157731bitcoin
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist161,0863468bitcoin
@siggy4799,127133419bitcoin
@Coinsreporter82,904187473runs
@k00b79,61170415sats
Congratulations to @Scoresby for stacking the most sats in August!

Most Active

Measured by total number of items posted
StackerItemsPostsCommentsSatsFavorite Word
@grayruby1,0395298768,35849ers
@Undisciplined9505789361,212thread
@BlokchainB93311481950,766ai
@Scoresby888157731164,024bitcoin
@Coinsreporter66018747382,904runs
Congratulations to @grayruby for being the most active stacker in August!

Highest Signal

Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)
StackerSats/PostPost SatsPostsFavorite Word
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist4,717160,36434bitcoin
@SimpleStacker2,87034,44312abs
@plebpoet2,46932,09913professor
@028559d2182,31413,8846bitcoin
@GreaterthanFiction2,04812,2916bitcoin
Congratulations to @Jimmyhoneyalchemist for delivering the highest signal commentary in August!

Wordiest

Measured by number of words written
StackerWordsPostsItemsSatsFavorite Word
@Scoresby78,934157888164,024bitcoin
@Rothbardian_fanatic54,7745618810,437state
@BlokchainB48,33911493350,766ai
@optimism41,9142558358,660ai
@realBitcoinDog40,4396835741,407abs
Congratulations to @Scoresby for being the wordiest stacker in August!

Most Laconic

Measured by number of sats per word (minimum 100 words)
StackerSats/WordSatsWordsFavorite Word
@jb55578,045141cln
@BitcoinNews365,805161bitcoin
@Jimmyhoneyalchemist23161,0866,931bitcoin
@theariard2014,546725bitcoin
@itsTomekK168,510534000
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
StackerSatsPostsCommentsFavorite Word
~bitcoin373,2835642,770bitcoin
~Stacker_Sports256,3753762,692runs
~BooksAndArticles254,921134705bitcoin
~the_stacker_muse175,64649155life
~AI160,6033071,087ai
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)
StackerSats/PostPost SatsPostsFavorite Word
~the_stacker_muse3,489170,94849life
~BooksAndArticles1,510202,364134bitcoin
~meta99383,42684comments
~Travel81810,63713bitcoin
~privacy81811,45514tools
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)
StackerComments/PostPostsCommentsSatsFavorite Word
~oracle10.91213112,882sats
~AskSN10.81241,338102,139bitcoin
~privacy7.91411021,229tools
~meta7.484623131,805comments
~Stacker_Sports7.23762,694256,375runs
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
WordFrequencySats
bitcoin5,74330,857
abs5,654936
sats1,9518,992
ai1,94011,871
money1,3978,345
world1,0866,909
comments9453,898
lightning9406,618
real9155,322
august8322,124

By Sats

Each word is allocated sats from its item based on its relative frequency of appearance in the item
WordFrequencySats
bitcoin5,74330,857
ai1,94011,871
sats1,9518,992
money1,3978,345
love6207,163
stackers4547,095
world1,0866,909
data7536,623
lightning9406,618
read7096,314

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:
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:
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.

Footnotes

  1. 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! ↩
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1h
Fantastic work! My fellow stacker!
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 3h
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.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 5h
I'm going for sci-fi/mystery, maybe it's too short to get a sense at the moment.
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49 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 1h
i detected the mystery, for the record
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 5h
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.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 6h
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.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 5h
My shoestring spaghetti code I use to put these together is probably too sloppy for k00b et al haha.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 6h
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. 🤣
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 6h
comedy in the greek sense maybe? Haha. But given the podcast voice, I can see how it would be interpreted as comedy.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 6h
yes indeed, it's neo-greco comedy. you're absolutely right
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 6h
Historical or Political Fiction:
can confirm
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker 6h
Awesome! I love how you pulled all the stats together.
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