Stacker News Monthly: January 2026Stacker News Monthly: January 2026
Welcome to this month's edition of Stacker News Monthly! Today we're going to take a look back at the month of January 2026!
This month, 531 stackers wrote 1,306,876 words across 3,929 posts and 18,713 comments, earning a total of 2,411,635 sats, for an average of 1.85 sats per word, and 2.17 sats per word on posts.
Let's take a look at how things performed in January! It's gonna be an interesting month, because crossposting was released on January 4th. The territory statistics are gonna get weird!
Top StackersTop Stackers
Here were the top stackers for the month of January:
Top ZappedTop Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps across all items
| Stacker | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word |
| @Scoresby | 177,312 | 142 | 498 | bitcoin |
| @denlillaapan | 135,067 | 61 | 450 | bitcoin |
| @SimpleStacker | 125,379 | 17 | 740 | bitcoin |
| @Undisciplined | 98,656 | 65 | 1,458 | point |
| @0xbitcoiner | 92,560 | 248 | 369 | ai |
Congratulations to @Scoresby for stacking the most sats in January! The official janitor of SN is (still) cleaning up!
Most ActiveMost Active
Measured by total number of items posted
| Stacker | Items | Posts | Comments | Sats | Favorite Word |
| @Undisciplined | 1,523 | 65 | 1,458 | 98,656 | point |
| @BlokchainB | 1,174 | 154 | 1,020 | 77,723 | company |
| @grayruby | 1,112 | 59 | 1,053 | 75,201 | 49ers |
| @Bell_curve | 805 | 18 | 787 | 27,329 | state |
| @SimpleStacker | 757 | 17 | 740 | 125,379 | bitcoin |
Congratulations to @Undisciplined for being the most active stacker in January! I'm also noticing that his favorite word varies a lot month to month!
Highest SignalHighest Signal
Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)
| Stacker | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word |
| @SimpleStacker | 3,926 | 66,742 | 17 | bitcoin |
| @plebpoet | 3,222 | 35,440 | 11 | snz |
| @denlillaapan | 1,840 | 112,245 | 61 | bitcoin |
| @anon | 1,551 | 23,272 | 15 | bitcoin |
| @jasonb | 1,132 | 14,715 | 13 | game |
Congratulations to @SimpleStacker for delivering the highest signal commentary in January!
Most ProlificMost Prolific
Measured by number of words
| Stacker | Words | Sats | Sats/Word | Favorite Word |
| @Scoresby | 84,118 | 177,312 | 2.11 | bitcoin |
| @BlokchainB | 60,983 | 77,723 | 1.27 | company |
| @0xbitcoiner | 54,216 | 92,560 | 1.71 | ai |
| @Yermin | 52,563 | 10,640 | 0.20 | federal |
| @denlillaapan | 41,895 | 135,067 | 3.22 | bitcoin |
NEW CATEGORY! In honor of Stacker News's literary heritage, congratulations to @Scoresby for being the most prolific wordsmith on Stacker News in January!
Top TerritoriesTop Territories
Here were the top territories for the month of January:
Top ZappedTop Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps in both posts and comments
| Territory | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 499,254 | 650 | 2,543 | bitcoin |
| ~econ | 370,128 | 310 | 2,027 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 304,063 | 308 | 3,542 | game |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 244,938 | 416 | 2,395 | trump |
| ~BooksAndArticles | 173,952 | 99 | 696 | book |
Congratulations to ~bitcoin territory for stacking the most sats in January, and ~econ for being the runner up! ~bitcoin and ~econ have been #1 and #2 for two months running.
Highest SignalHighest Signal
Measured by the highest number of sats per post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)
| Territory | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word |
| ~BooksAndArticles | 1,463 | 144,799 | 99 | book |
| ~Travel | 1,331 | 31,952 | 24 | bitcoin |
| ~devs | 1,063 | 40,408 | 38 | sats |
| ~the_stacker_muse | 1,047 | 65,974 | 63 | book |
| ~bitcoinplusplus | 1,039 | 50,904 | 49 | bitcoin |
Congratulations to ~BooksAndArticles territory for delivering the highest signal in January!
Hottest DiscussionHottest Discussion
Measured by total number of comments in territory
| Territory | Comments | Posts | Comments/Post | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 3,542 | 308 | 11.4 | 304,063 | game |
| ~bitcoin | 2,543 | 650 | 3.9 | 499,254 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 2,395 | 416 | 5.8 | 244,938 | trump |
| ~econ | 2,027 | 310 | 6.5 | 370,128 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Stocks | 854 | 318 | 2.7 | 125,612 | bitcoin |
Congratulations to ~Stacker_Sports territory for generating the most discussion in January (by far)! Will the fiat sportsball territory ever be dethroned as the King of Commentary?
Most CrosspostedMost Crossposted
Measured by number of posts with more than one territory
| Territory | Crossposts | Posts | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 171 | 650 | 499,254 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 147 | 416 | 244,938 | trump |
| ~econ | 135 | 310 | 370,128 | bitcoin |
| ~AI | 88 | 267 | 144,362 | ai |
| ~bitcoin_beginners | 64 | 102 | 65,400 | bitcoin |
NEW CATEGORY! Which territory tends to get added on as a tag more than any other? Unsurprisingly, it's ~bitcoin! But it's unclear whether ~bitcoin is the main category or the add-on. ~Politics_And_Law is the runner-up. Do you think that tends to be the add-on or the main category?
Top WordsTop Words
And finally, here were the top words for the month of January:
By FrequencyBy Frequency
Measured by the total number of times the term appears in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| bitcoin | 6,330 | 31,860 |
| sats | 2,009 | 7,311 |
| market | 1,418 | 4,831 |
| ai | 1,364 | 8,227 |
| money | 1,289 | 6,074 |
| world | 1,265 | 5,356 |
| real | 1,193 | 4,032 |
| state | 1,128 | 3,223 |
| lightning | 1,053 | 6,894 |
| trump | 1,013 | 2,943 |
abs has finally fallen off the top charts. But perhaps someone should start a Predyx market on when it will regain its place as #1?
By SatsBy Sats
Each word is allocated sats from zaps based on its relative frequency of appearance in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| bitcoin | 6,330 | 31,860 |
| ai | 1,364 | 8,227 |
| bob | 67 | 7,991 |
| murphy | 9 | 7,651 |
| sats | 2,009 | 7,311 |
| lightning | 1,053 | 6,894 |
| money | 1,289 | 6,074 |
| world | 1,265 | 5,356 |
| yah | 5 | 5,065 |
| market | 1,418 | 4,831 |
No surprises here, but bob and murphy showing up was a bit of a loop. I think I know why though: #1413649
Crosspost CorrelationsCrosspost Correlations
Now that crossposting is live, have you wondered which territories tend to get crossposted together the most? Wonder no more: below is a chart showing the likelihood of one territory being crossposted with another. The table is not symmetric: it shows the percentage of crossposts containing territory A that also contain territory B.
The chart shows that bitcoin is a popular territory to include alongside others. Moreover, a lot of the smaller territories are getting added to crossposts, so crossposting looks like it might be a boon to the smaller territories that may not attract many posts as the main topic, but are worthy of inclusion as a secondary topic.
Unsurprisingly, ~econ and ~Politics_And_Law are frequently crossposted together, as is ~Stacker_Sports and ~HealthAndFitness.
Notice that there is basically zero crossposting between ~Stacker_Sports and ~bitcoin, confirming my hypothesis that sports is so fiat.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this edition of Stacker News Monthly! Remember, stay humble and stack sats.
fun with charts and tables
or how boys are measuring their dicks
who spent 1k on that wtf
darth made a very good point
I strongly disagree. It’s not even like that. how do you expect people to be? how is this coming off arrogant to you? Is arrogant the wrong word? I can’t even grasp at that. It’s literally charts and tables.
See? You were triggered by the word "dicks" he used.
But he could easily said "toys", referring to charts and tables.
You are too judgemental...
yeah the word dicks really hurts me please don’t use it
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dick
and
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/dick-measuring_n
and
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dick-measuring_contest
sometimes you have too see and listen beyond darth"s simple and punitive words
K but you’re putting a number value to those words so what is that
the funnest part was showing incontrovertible evidence that sports is so fiat
We (you) could test which territories are primary vs tacked-on, by looking at how territory revenues and post counts changed after crossposting went live.
I don't get paid enough for this
And yet, you often do it anyway
I'm already a chump for being a prof, might as well keep chumping
here are some (worthless, deteriorating, fake-)sats, go along and do it!
thanks for the 5 cents!
soon to be 4 cents. And after that, probs 3-2-1-0. Have fun
(psst... it wasn't even real sats. Soz.)
Tether IV (#1410689) was really long. Tether V will hopefully be shorter.
But when I get around to writing the prose story based on all these posts, I don't know what I'll do.
This is awesome to saw! 🎉 The sheer amount of words, posts, and sats earned is wild — feels like the community really show up this month. Loving how ~bitcoin and them other territories is still huge, and the stats makes me want to go write more just to stack a few of those skills myself 😄. Big props to everyone who contributed, especially the most active ones— but everyone else. This kind of energy is what making SN feel like a real home for thoughtful discussion and actual value. Let’s keeps it rolling into February! ⚡
we can't do anything about sats received, at some level that's others validating our ideas/words... but that I lose to Scoresby in number of words by 2x... that's just insane. Inexcusable. Totally under my control
Nice crosspost correlations chart!
Making charts is so much easier in the age of AI.