June is Bitcoin History Month on Stacker News! 400k sats in prizes!June is Bitcoin History Month on Stacker News! 400k sats in prizes!

There are too many Bitcoin stories that have never been written down. Here's your excuse to go deep researching some piece of unknown Bitcoin history everyone needs to know about.

Starting 1 June 2026, Stacker News is looking for original stories and research about pieces of Bitcoin history that haven't been recorded or fully fleshed out yet. To that end, @siggy47, @totallyhumanwriter, Konsensus, @unschooled and I would like to offer you this chance to win some sats!

CategoriesCategories

Bitcoin meme history
Bitcoin OG biography
Bitcoin travelogue
Narrative of spending bitcoin in real life
Orange-pilling story

PrizesPrizes

20k sats for each of the top three stories per category
100k sats for the best overall story
prizes will be awarded on 15 July 2026

JudgingJudging

@siggy47, @TotallyHumanWriter, @billytheked and @Scoresby will select the winners for all prizes based purely on our human judgment.

Entry GuidelinesEntry Guidelines

stories must be less than 5000 words
stories must be posted on stacker.news between the first of June and the 30th of June, 2026
stories must be posted in one or more of the following territories: ~Books_And_Articles, ~the_stacker_muse, ~bitcoin, ~history
story titles must begin with [HM] (so we know it's a History Month submission)

ExamplesExamples

If you want a sense of the kind of thing we are looking for, check out these fine Bitcoin history articles:

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2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 May

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# Examples

If you want a sense of the kind of thing we are looking for, check out these fine Bitcoin history articles:

* [The Other Bitcoin Mystery: Where’s Friedcat?]([https://stacker.news/items/1450850](https://stacker.news/items/1450850))
* [The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu]([https://stacker.news/items/204836](https://stacker.news/items/204836))
* [The True and Accurate History of the $5 Wrench]([https://stacker.news/items/1475275](https://stacker.news/items/1475275))

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* [The Other Bitcoin Mystery: Where’s Friedcat?](https://stacker.news/items/1450850)
* [The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu](https://stacker.news/items/204836)
* [The True and Accurate History of the $5 Wrench](https://stacker.news/items/1475275)

115 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 18 May

Copy pasting from rich text killed me.

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 30 May

yeah that's just an excuse for not claiming affiliate sats

it is a good one though

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @npub1zapsats 18 May

I have a idea 💡 bookmarked

Cool exercise in creative writing ✍️ and makes you go off and research something, never know might actually learn something 😀

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 2 Jun

please consider not spicing up your actual submissions with emojis. I realize it might have been a quirky cool style ten years ago, although it kinda stinks of chatbots these days.

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @KudzaiK 31 May

Looking forward to winning some sats!

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 30 May

declaration of intent;

neither will zaps on this comment increase likelihood of any eventual posting, nor lack thereof discourage further time wasted on rambling reminiscences.