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I certainly am confused about @Aardvark's stacking stats:

(This is just for today)

since afaict he's no longer a territory owner and isn't really participating. where is he getting all these sats?

not that i'm jealous or anything, I just wonder if there's a reporting bug

33 sats \ 19 replies \ @k00b 1 Oct

Probably rewards. Yesterday was yuge. https://stacker.news/rewards/2026-10-01

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No rewards today?

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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct

it ran at midnight

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what's the bug that's causing it to not run consistently at midnight?

seems like it's causing confusion where some people were asking why it didn't run at midnight, and now other users asking why it didn't run because they were not expecting to get it the next morning.

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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct

Lock contention. We have other jobs that run at midnight and lock the db rows and the rewards job gets starved waiting to take its own lock.

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But how would he get lots of rewards with so few sats spent? I think I saw one screenshot where he stacked tens of thousands, with 0 spent and 0 items.

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73 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 1 Oct

Assuming this isn't a bug (it could be), he could be the referrer of a or several rewards whales.

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Aren't referrals a pretty small share of the total? Were there even enough referral sats for that?

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112 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 1 Oct

As a referrer you get 10% of the award winners award. So if he were the referrer of everyone awarded yesterday, he would've earned 73,065 sats.

Given the rewards power-ish law, if he referred one of the top 1 or 2 people, 26k is possible.

I haven't looked at the data though so I'm just speculating.

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Oh, ok. I forgot how high the referral share was. I was thinking it was like 2%.

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Damn I need to refer some higher quality stackers. (I think I shot myself in the foot and now most of my referrals are bots)

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115 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 1 Oct

I've been meaning to give people the option to set their referrer. Right now it's super opaque and makes it less of a game.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 2 Oct -100 sats

No way these are referral rewards.

Rewards are 100% broken or something is a given.

https://m.stacker.news/159763

https://m.stacker.news/159765

I was sharing the screenshots before as well, but didn't get replies like this did...🫪

#1584825

#1578647

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huge because of downzappers?

btw i love downzapping

does downzapping violate the non aggression principle? please say yes

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On 441 spent, though?

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Zaps count as participating.

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participate moar, ya big anteater!

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38 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 2 Oct

Lol, I never have really good bitcoin related things to talk about. It doesn't change that often.

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then talk about other stuff. people seem to like slice of life stuff here too

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