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There is a bet on Predyx about SN reaching 1.4M items in 2025 or not:
@denlillaapan is creating regular posts about how bad this bet is going for me:
This is the latest chart:
I agree, it doesn't look good. But It's So Early, right?!
But it won't be so early forever. Therefore, I have decided that I can't sit back anymore and pretend like I don't feel like this:
But on the other hand, I haven't even started to do something about it. But today we will reclaim our homeworld like in this opening cinematic of Legacy of the Void:
Let's make @denlillaapan cry and the next chart look like this!

But @ek, you have just posted a bunch of memes and haven't explained at all what the bounty is about???
You are right! I got carried away. But the title already explains most of it:
  • whoever has the most comments in this post wins
  • deadline is on Monday, April 28, 0:00 UTC (timezone converter)
But wait! This isn't a winner takes all:
🥇 1st place gets 25k sats 🥈 2nd place gets 12.5k sats 🥉 3rd place gets 7.5k sats 4th place gets 5k sats 5th place gets 2.5k sats
everyone above 100 comments gets 1k sats
btw, we're also engaged since today, see #948336.
25,000 sats bounty
ADDENDUM
  • Freebie comments don't count
  • New accounts that look like bots that have been created to only win this bounty also don't count so save your sats
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What about bot posts by real users 👀
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 4h
If you use your API key and your comments are marked as bot, it won't count
I'm going to create a bot that's named "notabot" think that will fool you?
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 3h
only if every post and comments ends with this:
this post or comment was created by a human
390 sats \ 51 replies \ @grayruby 4h
This is a rigged game.
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40 sats \ 43 replies \ @ek OP 4h
Mhh, good point, but let's see.
Our API is not that easy to understand and they still need to pay for each comment. If it's a really naive bot, it's going to run into spam fees and/or comment way more than needed.
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100 comments for 1 sat each guarantees 900 sats profit
30 sats \ 6 replies \ @Aardvark 3h
Rigged games are the most fun games there are.
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131 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 3h
If they are rigged in your favour.
33 sats \ 29 replies \ @Aardvark 3h
Holy shit, this is going to be wild.
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Yeah, buckle up buttercup. We're taken for a riiiiiide
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20 sats \ 27 replies \ @Aardvark 3h
So... how's the weather? It's pretty nice here. Like mid 50s and breezy.
I think I also wagered in favor of SN breaking 1.4M items in 2025
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13 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 4h
I was originally on YES but moved over to NO after seeing @denlillaapan's doom posting.
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leeeeesgooooe, we die together
Weak! I wagered on Stacker News breaking 1.5M.
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I think I wagered on 1.4 before 1.5 was available lol
HAHAHAHA what a cheap(!) way to turn the tides of an honest bet. Ah, man. Resorting not just to shit posting, but bribing the stackers to shitpost on your behalf.
well played, sir; weeeell played.
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I warned you that @ek is fully capable of determining the outcome of that event.
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I know, I know. Just never thought he actually would/there would come much from it
7 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 4h
I at least don't feel good about it haha. I have lost the battle but I haven't lost the war so far!
And we need to keep the bet interesting!
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True. It got boring for me to report a steady run towards inevitable victory
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82 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 2h
@BlokchainB are you watching the Knicks game?
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Nah am I missing anything? 👀
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Good game. Close. Knicks down by 3 with 8 to go.
100 sats \ 9 replies \ @Roll 4h
What a challenge...100 posts in 8 days.. so 10 per day at least let s see how far i go
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Roll 4h
so i ve to talk to myself to make it counts quiet weird but why not ..ahaahha
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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 4h
the things we do for love sats
7 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 4h
let's go, you're my man!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3h
but though job you are going to have with all the messages you are going to receive... how will you manage it ?
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120 sats \ 6 replies \ @supratic 4h
How you gonna count comments for each user under this post?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3h
with a
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 4h
I wanted to mention that everybody should reply exclusively to their own replies so SN will count them for me (and if somebody else replies in their thread, it counts as a reply for them), but I will probably just use the API or read the database.
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I want to reply to everything.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 3h
I was waiting for someone to mention how valuable making a lot of comments could be in the context of the bet...
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Well, not really. I'll do some numbers in the morning, but ek has to keep up this charade (and more!) not for a day or a week like now, but for 260 goddamn days.
Phat chance
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my god, that comment count is making me nervous
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 4h
I'm scared too!
I already have to pay out at least 52.5k sats for the top 5.
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plus the value at risk in the bet itself... oooh lord, what have we gotten ourselves into?!
Can we get a leaderboard?
I'm sure you don't have enough real work to do.
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No leaderboard. No Rewards. No bounty. No zapping. No comments. No posts. No, Nothing, Noone except I.
— Darth, the influencer.
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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 2h
You have not read my guides!
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He's going to have a fun time counting.
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Or we will, since there's no other way to know he counted correctly.
21 sats \ 9 replies \ @jasonb 3h
Is that thing @ken started still going? That’s gotta pad your stats a bit. I keep forgetting about it, but still have high hopes I’ll win it in the end.
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51 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek OP 3h
Yes, #661571 is still going
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb 3h
…and now I’m back in the running over there!
So just so I understand your bounty properly, does your comment on my comment apply towards my total?
I keep forgetting about that thing.
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This sounds like fun
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 4h
I decided to let out my inner Darth. Maybe because I own a lot of NO shares.
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This is what market makers feel like every day
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3h
let s rock it :p
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Oh well, Stackers.
I just gotta snatch third place here to have ek bail out my 7.5k sats placed on the bet.
Thanks for covering my buy-in, pal!
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29 sats \ 2 replies \ @supratic 4h
Does not sound this will provide much quality contents or constructive conversations
@remindme in 15151515 seconds
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3h
it depends of you ;) too
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true effing dat.
kind of proves my point with the very negative/aggressive tone in the many bet posts (#900000, etc)
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There is a bet on Predyx about SN reaching 1.4M items in 2025 or not:
There is one more: 1.5M items on SN in 2025. I have been saying that both of these will be "Yes". Now you believe me? CC: @denlillaapan
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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 4h
lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3h
xcellent :)
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LOOOOOL My god, life is too funny
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 2h
@ek are you keeping track?
This is 69
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 2h
Nice.
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Should I have pizza for dinner or something healthy? I had a salad with roasted chicken last night.
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20 sats \ 26 replies \ @Aardvark 2h
I just ate BBQ chicken pizza. Was really good.
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21 sats \ 25 replies \ @grayruby 2h
Tasty. This is 4 meat. I am not sure what the 4th meat is. Looks like pepperoni, ham and beef to me but maybe some of the ham is bacon.
Crap! I'm a half hour behind.
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36 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek OP 4h
just skip some sleep
every hour you skip you can post 6 comments for 1 sat!
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That's for vertical posting. I can reply way more than that horizontally.
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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek OP 3h
you should start preparing a speech
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Comment #1 this is rigged. Comment #2 my dog just pissed in the house.
Haha
🚨Spoiler Alert🚨 1st place: @grayruby 2nd place: @Aardvark 3rd place: ? 4th place: @denlillaapan 5th place: ?
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Anyone watching WrestleMania??
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@k00b can I get an api key? 👀
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Don't worry, I got this. 🔑
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@ek what's this post about?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 1h
It’s about posting your seed words so we can verify they are secure
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Hunter2
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Who wants to talk about poop habits? I go in the morning after my coffee and that's it. I'm one and done for the day.
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Will it work? No body knows
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This is blatant market manipulation. Ahah
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Haha. @ek is a whale and we are minnows.
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Hahahaha... seen what you lot have done to the rewards pool?? (Thanks for the extra reward funds, frenz!)
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@ek will finish first today.
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We’re over 100 now
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R U winning, son??
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Sure, just like the @denlillaapan
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I don't know. What do you think?
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Also, this gonna be the coolest portrait anyone has ever made of me.
Dude kinda looks like me, too: flashy, hip, overconfident. Nice role model for my unborn, non-existent kids
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 3h
thank you, I even sheared the SN logo so it aligns with the tombstone
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