As a reminder to folks, here you can change your default tip: https://stacker.news/settings

nout

It might be like the bitcoin tx fee market. 

So if I can tip 10 sats and it ends up on the front page, why would I tip 50?  But once a small tip doesn't move the needle, a bidding war essentially erupts for your tip to help the ranking.

Or maybe there's some other reason, who knows.

cointastical

yup, kind of fun to keep an eye on the rewards pool growing 

Could this be related?

*89264 sats to be rewarded today*
https://stacker.news/rewards

cryptocoin

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saloon

the tips on stacker news are really picking up lately… all the top posts today have at least 500 sats, and lots have over 1,000 sats.

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