TL;DR
TL;DR: If you're on Stacker News to try to stack sats instead of stack friends, you're gonna have a bad time.
My latest referral @alex_boast asked for some tips for Stacker News, so now I'm writing this guide. I'm timing myself too, because I just had a baby and I can only pretend to be using the toilet for so long.
You might stack sats, but know why you're spending time on Stacker News
In the end, this post took two hours to write, and my guess is that the post itself is only going to net me 2100 sats, a number I've only hit three times. Don't forget the 30% sybil fee, so I'm only pocketing 1,470 sats. So even if we're generous and saying that right now a sucker will trade you 1,470 sats for a single govt greenback, you're only making $0.50/hr. Pathetic. I really hope @k00b gets some more VC funding so we can stay in business. Honestly, we're gonna have to figure out a way for not just the code to be FOSS, but a decentralized way for the most dedicated stackers to help host the servers to run this site, and w/o the liability that comes from being a money transmitter, but I digress...
Top Stackers
There's only 1,100 active monthly stackers on SN who aren't @anon, so it's a freakin' small world. So while that's magical, it means this isn't a good place for BS, cRyPtO, or web3 shenanigans. They'll eat you alive. And it's not hard to know who the top stackers are, there's a leaderboard
- @k00b - be nice to this guy. SN might be decentralized, but he's God Emperor
- @grayruby - the guy who referred me. Boy, I wonder what he's thinking right about now xD
- @Undisciplined
- @0xbitcoiner
- @ek - be nice to him too. He's @k00b #2
- @IamSINGLE
- @OneOneSeven
- @realBitcoinDog - I am DEVASTATED to be this low.
- @SimpleStacker
- @TheMorningStar
- @south_korea_ln
- @Cje95 - get easy sats from this guy if you dunk on @DarthCoin
- @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- @DesertDave
- @Rsync25
- @Public_N_M_E
- @OT
- @cryotosensei
- @21futures - subscribe to this guy's posts. I referred him xD
- @TheWildHustle
How to game your content
See what I did there? I "mentioned" the top 20 stackers. You see, what people are really craving on Stacker News is connection so if you can show you thought of someone and included them, that's an easy way to stack sats. But you're a n00b if you think you can just copy this list and append it to the end of all your posts to stack sats. You need to actually earn their trust. Otherwise you'll get downzapped and your post outlawed, like mine.
Now what's the pro move? To sus out who's not there:
They are the "stacker is hidden." You see, the best way to actually get value from your posts in Stacker News is to give value. Give original value. Something you can't get from just clicking the FAQ link or leaderboard link. Write the post here on SN, and use markdown.
I'm too lazy to write interesting, original work.
- Donate 1000 sats every day to rewards.. It's easy money when a scammer comes in and boosts a post for 100k sats.
- Get new stackers through an invite link. You get 10% of that stackers sats forever.
- Click the three dots (...) and hit "Copy Link" instead of copying a URL at the top of your browser. This will append /r/realBitcoinDog to any SN link for you to make it a ref link to @realBitcoinDog, meaning I get sats when they click the link. Don't leave free sats on the table when you refer things within SN!
- While zapping new posts that are going to go viral will give you more rewards, I ultimately think the slow bleed in sats isn't actually helping you, but again, the point isn't to stack sats.
I did write original work, and I want to maximize my sats exposure
Well you've come to the right place, pardner.
@Natalia put all the best guides here but @davidw wrote the killer post
- posting on Wednesdays, Thursdays & Sundays is a great way to get an additional boost of sats when sharing engaging content on the site.
- posting between 9am and noon Eastern Time is CLEARLY optimal
- Stacker News is becoming the source of bitcoiner content, not just a news aggregator no more. Comments are drastically higher on posts with no links (22.1) vs those with (8.1). So again if you want more sats and engagement, take the time to write something original.
Omg this is way more than I asked for. Just give me the settings to change
- Make two ways to login, so you don't lose your account
- Change your default zapped sats to double digit sats. 10 sats = 1 vote. I encourage you to be zap heavy and often w/o thinking. Then, hold the lightning bolt when you really want to vote more for something you really liked. 100 sats = 2 votes. 1000 sats = 3 votes, etc. I love it when I find something worthy of 1000 sats. I get a blue lightning bolt and man do they really appreciate it.
My two sats - Don't take Stacker News too seriously
We're about to go through a major upheaval with the move to "attached Bitcoin wallets" and "cowboy credits." As @Darthcoin reminds me all the time that these are real sats real bitcoin I've essentially treated them like they're cowboy credits. I've never withdrawn them from the site, and like @grayruby does, I've always spent em as soon as I've earned em. So my bio might say I've stacked 46k sats, but my wallet only has 4k sats left in it. It'll be a sea change if everybody's SN wallet really does say "0 sats" and you're draining from your "real attached wallet" every time you want to actually zap someone. So we'll see if it makes people a lot more stingy with their sats once they "remember Darth's words" that IT'S REAL!
We're here for connection. As soon as the FIRST person actually reads my first book The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the C++ Source Code or my second book Bitcoin Girl: Save the World and actually tells me they liked it. Then man, that's when it'll have all been worth it. Real human connection. To have poured myself into my books for hours and hours, and for someone to have not only bought it, but read it, and liked it. That's the best compliment a Bitcoiner can give me. Even better if they passed the book onto a nocoiner, and it was so good, it inspired them to get off of zero.
autowithdraws, and sometimes multiple ones for the same satoshis tranche, very confusing!