Two year ago, @mo released the ~AGORA P2P Marketplace—a new way to promote, share, and trade peer-to-peer over SN. Our goal was to create a single destination for our community to discover the goods and services needed without intermediaries and paying with Bitcoin, Lighting, and now the build in Cowboy Credits. We launched with a simple idea to replicate the dynamics of the place where people exchanged the social and political^[1] order of the polis (city/community), the center of the athletic, artistic, business, social, spiritual, and political life in, in our case, the Wild West Web of Stacker News.

Two year already since its inception, last year review feels like last month, the AGORA territory has continued being powered by a thriving community, tenacious sellers and many brave ₿usinesses and Merchants. We talk (private) ₿usiness, we growth an economy arund bitcoin and most importat, we continue educating and learning about trading good and services peer to peer, withouth intermediaries, with trust and honor.

2025 Highlights2025 Highlights

Over the past year, the AGORA territory has seen significant activity, with numerous posts, comments, and transactions. Here are the highlights:

📜 Top 3 posts by zaprank📜 Top 3 posts by zaprank

Discover the most engaging posts based on stackers interactions. You can see them all here!

🥇 https://stacker.news/~AGORA/top/posts/year My New Project by @siggy47
🥈 #1299312 Hows & Whys Navigating Business in Commerce with Honor & Integrity by @mo
🥉 #878224 [MAYBE BUY] The Times 03/Jan/2009 by @ek

📜 Top 3 posts by comments📜 Top 3 posts by comments

Sparking the most out of the discussion. You can see them all here!

🥇 #837469 [BUY] 100 cowboy credits for one satoshi by @ek
🥈Add RSS feed for my guides page by @DarthCoin
🥉#1329607 Stacker News Cowboy Credits Market Depth by @AGORA

📜 Top 3 posts by sats📜 Top 3 posts by sats

Yes! Those that have earned the most sats from the community. You can see them all here (excluding internals)!

🥇 [⚖️ SELL] Strike is selling Silk Road merch and all profit goes to Ross by @k00b
🥈 #1235512 [SELL] SNZ Issue 27 #Classifieds, 1 block = 1k sats by @plebpoet
🥉 #837351 PlebBook 📖 - (Update: Jan 2025 - Earn Sats in AGORA) by @PlebLab

📜 Top 3 Boosts📜 Top 3 Boosts

Learn about the posts that have gained significant attention supporting the territory.

🥇 #1333912 WAGMI Holiday Gift Basket - An All-Bitcoin & All-Nostr Gift Set by @lowtimer
🥈 #1050123 WhatsMiner M50(S) - 118Th/s - Free Shipping by @freecritter
🥉 #920555 Easy self-hosting of a basic ecommerce store that accepts bitcoin? by @k00b

📜 Top 3 internal posts📜 Top 3 internal posts

You can see all the ~AGORA highlights in our territory pinned post #942038

🥇 #1349267 ↯ Stacker.News CC/SAT Exchange Order Book 📔 v0.2
🥈 #1248555 AGORA's Escrow Service
🥉 #1277903 TM7: SN Force is Stronger with more services and P2P deals for & from stackers

⚖️ Top 3 SELLERS⚖️ Top 3 SELLERS

Recognize the most successful sellers in the community.

🥇 #903776 [SELL] Your Tombstone, 1k sats by @jasonb
🥈 #931308 [SELL] SNZ serialized inaugural issue, 3k sats (shipping to US) by @plebpoet
🥉 #1303411 [Sell] "Better Study Bitcoin!" Coasters - starting at 10,000 sats by @jasonb

🖇 Top 3 OFFERS🖇 Top 3 OFFERS

Explore the best service and product offers.

🥇 [OFFER][120k–6M sats] Fixed-scope BTC installs: custody, LN, privacy by @327c19b153
🥈 #1197267 [OFFER] [60k sats/hr] Custom Graphic Design - Posters, Album Art & Podcasts by @PictureRoom
🥉 #911884 [OFFER] BOLT12 Day: 12K sats for an item from the “Bullish X Alby” collection by @thebullishbitcoiner

🤠 Top 3 Contributors🤠 Top 3 Contributors

Let's acknowledge the stackers who have contributed the most to the territory.

🥇 @midnightshipper with 24 Ad-posts
🥈 @beejay with https://stacker.news/search/r/AGORA?amount=&q=~AGORA+%beejay&what=posts
🥉 @DarthCoin with https://stacker.news/search/r/AGORA?amount=&q=~AGORA+%DarthCoin&what=posts

🤠 Top 3 SN Posts about Business🤠 Top 3 SN Posts about Business

Outside of the AGORA, we know people was talking about business and markets. Here the most interesting ones:

🥇 #1223737 SN Themed Business cards by @deSign_r
🥈 #889350 Just set up Zaprite for my business by @denlillaapan
🥉 #1256230 I found a business that accepts Bitcoin in Venezuela by @bief57

Special kudos to, like last year, @OPAGO_PAY for onboarding so many new businesses into #bitcoin and @BTCLNAT for doing the same with much harder conditions in Cuba. Hat off to you man.

In SummaryIn Summary

A total of 📜 386 posts _(-53.09%)
with a total of 💬 2433 comments _(+4.69%)
stackers spent 🔫 298.2k sats _(-28.91%)
we stacked 🐎 118.6k sats _(-35.19%)
and a revenue of 🏆 118.6k sats _(-12.98%)

Overall, positioning the ~AGORA at:

#35/56 by spent _{(-6 positions)}
#36/56 by stacking _{(-6 positions)}
#30/56 by revenue _{(-8 positions)}

So why keep going at a loss?
We are driven by a desire to create something meaningful and useful for a community that aligns with our interests and values, which for us, is a fulfilling and motivating factor itself. Operating the AGORA provides me and @AG an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, share ideas, and learn from others. The sense of community and the potential for personal and professional growth is our second strong motivator. Moreover, Stacker News is continually improving and expanding with new features that keep us even mre motivated to create new initiative like those that follow:

AGORA initiativesAGORA initiatives

During this year, we have played, experimented and had much fun launching several initiatives to support and enhance the AGORA territory, some of them have work, others need some more work, but overall we are really proud of the progress done until now. Check out our gems:

We rebranded the SN merrch shop to SWAG now available at https://SWAG.btc.pub, with plenty of new and uique SN branded clothing, accessories, extra gadgets and posters
#1248555 We finally launched an exxclusive Escrow service, you can learn more here
#1225577 The first (of hopefully many more to come) SN giveaway [FREE] raffle
#1199616 Initiative to better support merchants and businesses providng products and services to stackers

Try the ~AGORATry the ~AGORA

If you are still new in the AGORA, we suggest reading our Tutorials, Guidelines and Tips, browse the community latest items or, why not, share an Ad-post for products and services you may have to offer?
Click any of the links below to get started:

[⚖️ SELL] your stuff (learn how)
[🛒 BUY] stuff for sats
[🧑‍💻 HIRE] some stuff or skills
[🖇 OFFER] something (learn how)
[🧑‍⚖️ AUCTION] anything (learn how)
[🤝 SWAP] Peer to Peer
You could also give it for [🆓 FREE]
Learn how to create your own [SHOPFRONT] or simply...
[⭐ REVIEW] anything (learn how

A Heartfelt Thank YouA Heartfelt Thank You

We are grateful to @mo for initiating this territory, @AG for the amazing work done keeping an eye on the territory, running our weekly 🏷️ Spending Sunday!, the latest 🤝 SN Sellers & ₿usiness Club and The Magnificent Seven newsletter, and @k00b, @ek (man, whish you all teh best for your next venture), new entry @sox and @Scoresby and all @SN contributors for building and maintaining Stacker News the way the community want and need. Your contributions have enabled us to add to our words and actions real value!
Thank you.

Your Feedback MattersYour Feedback Matters

If you have suggestions or ideas on how we can improve or expand the AGORA territory, do leave your feedback in the comments below or DM us on #Nostr:
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Thank you, stackers, for making this second year another incredible journey. We hope you enjoyed the ɅGOᏒɅ 🌵🏜️ experience and look forward to see many more successful and joyful done-deals around here.

MAY EVERY DEAL ₿RING JOY TO YOUR ~AGORA AD-VENTURES!MAY EVERY DEAL ₿RING JOY TO YOUR ~AGORA AD-VENTURES!

No, not the politics we understand as it today. ↩