Stacker News Monthly: August 2025Stacker 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
• Top Territories
• Top Words
• Fiction Month!

Top StackersTop Stackers

Here were the top stackers for the month of August:

Top EarnerTop Earner

Measured by total sats across all items

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

Most ActiveMost Active

Measured by total number of items posted

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

Highest SignalHighest Signal

Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)

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

WordiestWordiest

Measured by number of words written

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

Most LaconicMost Laconic

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

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

Top TerritoriesTop Territories

Here were the top territories for the month of August:

Top EarningTop Earning

Measured by total sats earned on both posts and comments

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

Highest SignalHighest Signal

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

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

Hottest DiscussionHottest Discussion

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

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

Top WordsTop Words

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

By FrequencyBy Frequency

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

By SatsBy Sats

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

Fiction Month!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 calculations^[1], 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:
  • [FM] OpenAIDS 10 by @k00b
  • [FM] Parallels by @SimpleStacker
  • [FM] VR boys (1118 words) by @plebpoet
  • [FM] Trust Fallout by @daolin
  • [FM] Harbinger City by @Ktmorley
  • [FM] Remember to take your infomins by @cleophas
  • [FM] - The Bitcoin Spiderverse by @MaaliMKen
  • [FM] - EEE from Scrap Silicon Valley by @MaaliMKen
  • [FM] - In Hodlers We Trust by @MaaliMKen
  • [FM] They called themselves the Stackers by @grayruby
  • [FM] The Ask by @TheFictionFactory
  • [FM] Die a Friend or Live a Foe by @didiplaywell
  • [FM] "THE AWAKENING. Part One." by AZA_21m by @8d5ba92c8c
  • [FM] The Halving: Block 1,260,000 by @GreaterthanFiction
  • [FM] The Price We Deserve (~1,000 Word Standalone) by @daolin
  • [FM] Memetic Trade & Finance (from your favorite Professor) by @bitcoingraffiti
  • It Takes Two by @Ktmorley
  • [FM] Trust Fallout - Part 2 by @daolin
  • [FM] Low Tide by @TheFictionFactory
  • [FM] Bad Iron - Pilot by @daolin
  • [FM] Not One Satoshi by @GreaterthanFiction
  • [FM] Rigged (The Convergence Tales – Digicoin) ~2,000 Words by @daolin
  • [FM] The Last Miner by @GreaterthanFiction
  • [FM] -- 3D Chess by @MaaliMKen
  • [FM] Ninety Days Of The Unexpected by @hasherstacker
• Utopian Science Fiction:
  • [FM] "2223" (A “The Citadel” story by Eduardo Próspero) by @eduardopro
  • [FM] Power Line by @GreaterthanFiction
  • [FM] Hardware Robot - HR by @MaaliMKen
  • [FM] The Saga of the 210 Stackers of the Meshfire by @hasherstacker
  • [FM] Dawn of the Shimmering City by @n00n
• Historical or Political Fiction:
  • [FM] The Zone of Obscurity by @bitcoingraffiti
  • [FM] Sagas of the Lincoln County War by @billytheked
• Slice of Life:
  • [FM] - Saudade (980 words) by @TotallyHumanWriter
  • [FM] ✨ What if there was a new myth to believe in? ✨ (849 words) by @plebpoet
  • [FM] The end of an age, the beginning of some other (389 words) by @plebpoet
  • [FM] Steve Roach, Mint Salesman by @Scoresby
  • [FM] Different Roads Same Moon by @GreaterthanFiction
  • [FM] Sick of Circles (Epilogue) by @daolin
• Mystery, Horror, Suspense, or Thriller:
  • [FM] - The Message by @guerratotal
  • [FM] TRUST by @DuneMessias
  • The Seed Poem by SymbolSatoshi by @SymbolSatoshi
  • [FM] The Return Of Satoshi by @karanjbhatia
  • [FM] The Magnificent Diary of Mary Elizabeth Melville,Esq by @voxmagdalenea
  • [FM} - The window by @guerratotal
  • The Legend of The Hunter by @hasherstacker
• 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:
  • [FM] Arrival by @OneOneSeven
  • [FM] The Trust Museum by @jbschirtzinger
  • [FM] The Composite Man — An introductory letter from ur favy market manipulator by @bitcoingraffiti
  • [FM] The Convergence Tales (123,456,789.987654321) by @daolin
  • [FM] A young man, his unidentified feeling, and an emergent idea (708 words) by @plebpoet
  • FM Good Morning Badger Batalion by @Marc26z

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.

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! ↩