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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 9h
If you use your API key and your comments are marked as bot, it won't count
Challenge accepted
I’m not here to fuck spiders
390 sats \ 65 replies \ @grayruby 10h
This is a rigged game.
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40 sats \ 47 replies \ @ek OP 10h
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 \ 12 replies \ @Aardvark 8h
Rigged games are the most fun games there are.
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131 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 8h
If they are rigged in your favour.
How did you say It’s so Early! and mention @Car podcast and not mine?! You TROLLING
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 2h
haven’t seen @ek in two days and I see this post like…
SHAMELESS
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 57m
PLUG
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I think I also wagered in favor of SN breaking 1.4M items in 2025
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Weak! I wagered on Stacker News breaking 1.5M.
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28 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 9h
We will get there by next week.
13 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 10h
I was originally on YES but moved over to NO after seeing @denlillaapan's doom posting.
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leeeeesgooooe, we die together
33 sats \ 32 replies \ @Aardvark 8h
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 8h
So... how's the weather? It's pretty nice here. Like mid 50s and breezy.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 56m
Always.
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24 sats \ 36 replies \ @grayruby 8h
Should I have pizza for dinner or something healthy? I had a salad with roasted chicken last night.
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20 sats \ 28 replies \ @Aardvark 7h
I just ate BBQ chicken pizza. Was really good.
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21 sats \ 26 replies \ @grayruby 7h
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.
The real question is, pineapple toppings yay or nay
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I don't eat pineapple on pizza but my wife and daughter love it.
120 sats \ 36 replies \ @supratic 10h
How you gonna count comments for each user under this post?
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0 sats \ 29 replies \ @ek OP 10h
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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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 9h
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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100 sats \ 16 replies \ @Roll 9h
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 \ 8 replies \ @Roll 9h
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 9h
the things we do for love sats
7 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek OP 9h
let's go, you're my man!
my god, that comment count is making me nervous
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek OP 9h
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?!
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82 sats \ 11 replies \ @grayruby 8h
@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.
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33 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 8h
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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🚨Spoiler Alert🚨 1st place: @grayruby 2nd place: @Aardvark 3rd place: ? 4th place: @denlillaapan 5th place: ?
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I was hoping to get to 100 before recording this week's podcast but didn't quite make it. Things really slowed down in the thread.
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I've decided to reply all of your comments so as to see myself on the winners' list. Haha
I got this, bro. No worries
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21 sats \ 16 replies \ @jasonb 9h
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 \ 8 replies \ @ek OP 9h
Yes, #661571 is still going
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb 8h
…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.
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 \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 7h
You have not read my guides!
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.
Crap! I'm a half hour behind.
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36 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek OP 9h
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.
This is what happens when you are building your media empire
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Anyone watching WrestleMania??
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 4h
We were recording the pod. I watched a bit of it earlier. I want to watch the main event.
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This sounds like fun
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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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We need 1800ish comments per day to reach 1.4M by 31 Dec 2025.
It's not looking achievable even with this because we've been constantly falling short of daily target by 800 to 1000 items.
Undoubtedly this competition will increase the daily comments counts but I'm not so sure that it'll help break even 1800 items/day.
We need more people and more stackers and more engaging content to see it happen.
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I heard you call Sensei
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We really need you. I need you for moral support. @grayruby has @realBitcoinDog to talk to for no reason. I have many reminisce of our PPP talks and it's time we can do that again. For some happy sats...
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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 \ 5 replies \ @supratic 9h
Does not sound this will provide much quality contents or constructive conversations
@remindme in 15151515 seconds
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Roll 9h
it depends of you ;) too
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Wait you’re encouraging me to post? I’m paid to post??
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And exchange good vibes with Sensei
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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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No, actually still not. This lil stunt is funny, but work last
Do you see me selling my shares? diamond hands, bitch
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7 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek OP 9h
lol
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Roll 9h
xcellent :)
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We need to start quote replying.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 4h
No
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Post
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@ek are you keeping track?
This is 69
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 7h
Nice.
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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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I kinda like how you go against 🖕the Humility ethos
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That is my life ethos
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Shit
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rbd, my dude, two peeps can play this game
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Stop flexing 😡
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40 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek OP 9h
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
Man, I didn't even see that creepy David vs Goliath-style meme until now. Yeah, that's totally me.
bring it on, sucker!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 58m
Ok
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 1h
530
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LOL another crap MSM? Why?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @j7hB75 1h
Why not?
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Create spam and useless comments. Are you new here. I've seen that before and was a disaster.
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Don't forget to add this one
Hope it helps 🫡
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 59m
Helps me.
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What did you learn today?
TIL that it’s not so much the gamification that hooks hapless teens into addiction, but the uncertainty of rewards. Hence, keeping the dopamine rush fresh
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 59m
That’s the stuff.
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me too , i like emptyness
Seems like all saloon's posts moved here
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for 8 days for sur :P
@k00b can I get an api key? 👀
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Truly.
I got owned
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@ek what's this post about?
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about what you desire ... :P
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 7h
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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try and you will know ;P
This is blatant market manipulation. Ahah
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are we ? haahahaha
Hahahaha... seen what you lot have done to the rewards pool?? (Thanks for the extra reward funds, frenz!)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 8h
@ek will finish first today.
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We’re over 100 now
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R U winning, son??
I don't know. What do you think?
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try and you will see :)