Stacker News Monthly: September 2026
Welcome to this month's edition of Stacker News Monthly! Today we're going to take a look back at the month of September 2026!
This month, 498 stackers wrote 1,058,090 words across 2,917 posts and 19,152 comments, earning a total of 4,985,238 sats, for an average of 4.71 sats per word, and 7.00 sats per word on posts.
In addition, there were 7,499,826 sats in boosts and 6,437,532 sats in downzaps. Wow, that's a lot of boosts and downzaps!
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Top Stackers
Here were the top stackers for the month of September:
Top Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps across all items
| Stacker | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @Undisciplined | 360,834 | 72 | 1,223 | accountability | Stacker_Sports |
| @denlillaapan | 352,924 | 77 | 589 | money | econ |
| @Scoresby | 235,883 | 77 | 605 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @SimpleStacker | 199,887 | 24 | 747 | bitcoin | econ |
| @0xbitcoiner | 180,616 | 236 | 373 | read | econ |
Most Active
Measured by total number of items posted
| Stacker | Items | Posts | Comments | Sats | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @Undisciplined | 1,295 | 72 | 1,223 | 360,834 | accountability | Stacker_Sports |
| @grayruby | 1,189 | 81 | 1,108 | 152,041 | game | Stacker_Sports |
| @BlokchainB | 1,084 | 94 | 990 | 119,105 | btc | Stacker_Stocks |
| @optimism | 983 | 6 | 977 | 152,259 | sats | AI |
| @SimpleStacker | 771 | 24 | 747 | 199,887 | bitcoin | econ |
Highest Signal
Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)
| Stacker | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @anon | 10,143 | 152,140 | 15 | amboss | bitcoin |
| @revhodl21 | 7,315 | 95,100 | 13 | bitcoin | Permaculture |
| @Natalia | 5,328 | 31,967 | 6 | stackers | AskSN |
| @SimpleStacker | 5,255 | 126,122 | 24 | bitcoin | econ |
| @optimism | 4,276 | 25,656 | 6 | sats | AI |
Most Prolific
Measured by number of words
| Stacker | Words | Sats | Sats/Word | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @optimism | 57,666 | 152,259 | 2.64 | sats | AI |
| @denlillaapan | 56,522 | 352,924 | 6.24 | money | econ |
| @Scoresby | 55,228 | 235,883 | 4.27 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @BlokchainB | 44,994 | 119,105 | 2.65 | btc | Stacker_Stocks |
| @0xbitcoiner | 43,587 | 180,616 | 4.14 | read | econ |
Most Controversial
Controversy = sqrt(sats x downsats)
| Stacker | Controversy | Sats | Downsats | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @dendehomie | 254,353 | 10,928 | 5,920,136 | nah | bitcoin |
| @denlillaapan | 220,429 | 352,924 | 137,675 | money | econ |
| @Undisciplined | 191,898 | 360,834 | 102,055 | accountability | Stacker_Sports |
| @anon | 75,098 | 175,407 | 32,152 | amboss | bitcoin |
| @BlokchainB | 47,083 | 119,105 | 18,612 | btc | Stacker_Stocks |
Top Territories
Here were the top territories for the month of September:
Top Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps in both posts and comments
| Territory | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 978,530 | 448 | 2,923 | bitcoin |
| ~econ | 871,173 | 286 | 1,642 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 610,121 | 376 | 3,609 | putt |
| ~AskSN | 589,090 | 212 | 2,547 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 474,803 | 345 | 1,741 | trump |
Highest Signal
Measured by the highest number of sats per post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)
| Territory | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word |
| ~events | 6,153 | 123,059 | 20 | bitcoin |
| ~Permaculture | 5,702 | 57,025 | 10 | oil |
| ~meta | 5,394 | 350,617 | 65 | september |
| ~BooksAndArticles | 2,655 | 273,484 | 103 | book |
| ~econ | 2,569 | 734,714 | 286 | bitcoin |
Hottest Discussion
Measured by total number of comments in territory
| Territory | Comments | Posts | Comments/Post | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 3,609 | 376 | 9.1 | 610,121 | putt |
| ~bitcoin | 2,923 | 448 | 6.1 | 978,530 | bitcoin |
| ~AskSN | 2,547 | 212 | 11.9 | 589,090 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 1,741 | 345 | 4.8 | 474,803 | trump |
| ~econ | 1,642 | 286 | 6.0 | 871,173 | bitcoin |
Most Crossposted
Measured by number of posts with more than one territory
| Territory | Crossposts | Posts | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 295 | 448 | 978,530 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 276 | 345 | 474,803 | trump |
| ~econ | 246 | 286 | 871,173 | bitcoin |
| ~news | 180 | 216 | 134,155 | trump |
| ~AI | 176 | 242 | 231,698 | ai |
Top Words
And finally, here were the top words for the month of September:
By Frequency
Measured by the total number of times the term appears in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| bitcoin | 3,613 | 71,157 |
| abs | 3,183 | 2,451 |
| sats | 2,027 | 23,198 |
| ai | 1,274 | 14,656 |
| lightning | 1,058 | 11,283 |
| money | 1,051 | 12,252 |
| world | 1,032 | 9,823 |
| september | 817 | 2,341 |
| read | 784 | 9,945 |
| btc | 781 | 24,596 |
By Sats
Each word is allocated sats from zaps based on its relative frequency of appearance in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| bitcoin | 3,613 | 71,157 |
| btc | 781 | 24,596 |
| putt | 413 | 24,132 |
| sats | 2,027 | 23,198 |
| albatross | 239 | 18,403 |
| swan | 3 | 18,269 |
| sn | 734 | 16,248 |
| happens | 154 | 15,740 |
| conference | 48 | 15,491 |
| nordic | 90 | 15,366 |
By DownSats
Each word is allocated downsats from downzaps based on its relative frequency of appearance in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | DownSats |
| nah | 243 | 105,036 |
| trillion | 138 | 102,910 |
| asset | 131 | 95,618 |
| sat | 319 | 82,962 |
| quadrillion | 41 | 76,203 |
| satoshi | 119 | 74,317 |
| cognitive | 59 | 74,271 |
| network | 522 | 70,706 |
| bitcoin | 3,613 | 60,367 |
| fiat | 342 | 57,430 |
Zaps, Boosts, Downzaps, and Controversy
Here are the top 10 most zapped, boosted, downzapped, and controversial posts for the month of September. Controversy score is calculated as the geometric mean of sats and downsats (excluding boosts).
Top Zapped
Not including boosts or downzaps
- Reflecting a bit on The Zap Wars by @Undisciplined (Zaps: 212,736 sats)
- BTC HEL 2026 – The Nordic Bitcoin Conference - Happens again in two weeks! by @anon (Zaps: 102,428 sats)
- My hot water mines Bitcoin and cooks food, with canola oil by @revhodl21 (Zaps: 37,818 sats)
- [Book Review] Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by @SimpleStacker (Zaps: 33,089 sats)
- BOOK on BOOKS: "Principles of Bitcoin" (2025) by Vijay Selvam by @denlillaapan (Zaps: 28,035 sats)
- Does Residential Real Estate Have an Investment Future? (FT, James Pickford) by @denlillaapan (Zaps: 25,993 sats)
- Invalid Bitcoin blocks: full PoW, consensus invalid by @deadmanoz (Zaps: 25,343 sats)
- Should we want to grow Stacker News? If so, how? by @magnolia_mayhem (Zaps: 23,405 sats)
- Research in Public #20: Stacker News paper accepted at WISE 2026 by @SimpleStacker (Zaps: 22,662 sats)
- stacker.FAILS - 40% of poll respondants claimed to know fictional people by @anon (Zaps: 21,692 sats)
Top Boosted
- Why Sat-Digital-Gold can't win without Nah•Sovereign•Diamond by @dendehomie (Boost: 3,407,809 sats)
- Why Bitcoin's 2 Quadrillion Sats is Failing the Macro Marshmallow Experiment by @dendehomie (Boost: 3,404,023 sats)
- The Only Way to Make Your Bitcoin Truly Private - Sovereign Sessions Tutorial by @Kruw (Boost: 19,800 sats)
- Episode 278: Coder Commands Codex & Claude by @AtlantisPleb (Boost: 19,491 sats)
- Handles on Mainnet! by @buffrr (Boost: 19,000 sats)
- Episode 277: Coder Terminal by @AtlantisPleb (Boost: 17,853 sats)
- Reflecting a bit on The Zap Wars by @Undisciplined (Boost: 16,060 sats)
- Episode 279: Raiding Claude Code by @AtlantisPleb (Boost: 14,222 sats)
- Episode 280: CoderOS by @AtlantisPleb (Boost: 11,111 sats)
- Episode 281: Coder Mobile by @AtlantisPleb (Boost: 11,111 sats)
Top Downzapped
- Why Sat-Digital-Gold can't win without Nah•Sovereign•Diamond by @dendehomie (Downzaps: 3,405,763 sats)
- Why Bitcoin's 2 Quadrillion Sats is Failing the Macro Marshmallow Experiment by @dendehomie (Downzaps: 2,506,607 sats)
- Reflecting a bit on The Zap Wars by @Undisciplined (Downzaps: 100,002 sats)
- stacker.FAILS - 40% of poll respondants claimed to know fictional people by @anon (Downzaps: 24,000 sats)
- BOOK on BOOKS: "Principles of Bitcoin" (2025) by Vijay Selvam by @denlillaapan (Downzaps: 22,218 sats)
- Handles on Mainnet! by @buffrr (Downzaps: 15,000 sats)
- Revolut's Nik Storonsky on a Bank with Zero Risk (FT, Patrick Jenkins Interview) by @denlillaapan (Downzaps: 14,000 sats)
- Episode 278: Coder Commands Codex & Claude by @AtlantisPleb (Downzaps: 14,000 sats)
- Silent Upgrade • Haleen by @haleen (Downzaps: 13,466 sats)
- Episode 279: Raiding Claude Code by @AtlantisPleb (Downzaps: 13,000 sats)
Most Controversial
Controversy = sqrt(sats x downsats)
- Reflecting a bit on The Zap Wars by @Undisciplined (Controversy: 145,856)
- Why Sat-Digital-Gold can't win without Nah•Sovereign•Diamond by @dendehomie (Controversy: 103,659)
- Why Bitcoin's 2 Quadrillion Sats is Failing the Macro Marshmallow Experiment by @dendehomie (Controversy: 95,873)
- BOOK on BOOKS: "Principles of Bitcoin" (2025) by Vijay Selvam by @denlillaapan (Controversy: 24,958)
- stacker.FAILS - 40% of poll respondants claimed to know fictional people by @anon (Controversy: 22,817)
- Silent Upgrade • Haleen by @haleen (Controversy: 17,006)
- Does Residential Real Estate Have an Investment Future? (FT, James Pickford) by @denlillaapan (Controversy: 14,902)
- Revolut's Nik Storonsky on a Bank with Zero Risk (FT, Patrick Jenkins Interview) by @denlillaapan (Controversy: 14,337)
- Handles on Mainnet! by @buffrr (Controversy: 12,540)
- Can You Safely Launder Bitcoin? And How Much? by @denlillaapan (Controversy: 9,636)
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this edition of Stacker News Monthly! Remember, stay humble and stack sats.
Interesting that @Undisciplined ’s post generates almost as many downzaps as zaps
These are interesting times
Me being #1 prolific means that @Scoresby, @denlillaapan and @BlokchainB have all been slacking through September. Hup hup! Next month beat me please.
Lies I never slack
you're copying and pasting a lot of code and terminal output though so I dunno if it should count! 😆
If you want to uncount that, also uncount everything quoted.
Fair. @denlillaapan gets away with posting a lot of other peoples' words!
what, MEEE?!
what are you even talking about
Dunno, I think he means the guy whose yank-bastardized nickname is an article, or perhaps,
thearticle.I am deeply ashamed. forgiveness, please.
We juuuust behind you, silly
Yeah... that means you're performing at about 50% your usual volume.
lol...
Nah, I'm hovering remarkably consistent at 55k-ish words
~Permaculture coming in the hot! Let's keep that signal flowing over there!
Of course! Thanks for bringing this territory to SN, you're doing an incredible job here and literally made my wish come true, look at this #341553 I hope I'll have enough time this week to share some of my experiences from all these years I've spent living away from civilization, trying to learn from nature. Thanks again!
Funny that the guy named @Undisciplined's favourite word is accountability. Type it into existence.
You can just say things!
I don't understand why anyone would downzap a band that shares what they love, which is making music... no, I really don't get it. Long live music, and long live love!
I don't know who's downzapping them either. I was surprised by that one.
I don't know who downzaps at all... what do you thing this is, the frontpage of the New York Times?!
There's like two dozen anons here, and we all route around your silly downzap obstacles anyway
Ouh, narrowly beating out Scoresby in number of words... makes a Den a happy 😁!!
...and 6.24 sats per word is FUCKING SEXY!
Question:
means zaps only (CCs and sats, yes?) and donations/rewards arrive separately?
zaps (both sats and ccs, not including boosts and downzaps)
also, only for items that were posted that month. doesn't include zaps you received from items posted in earlier months
Interesting... the SN stars are in this table.