Stacker News Monthly: July 2026
Welcome to this month's edition of Stacker News Monthly! Today we're going to take a look back at the month of July 2026!
This month, 464 stackers wrote 830,748 words across 1,982 posts and 14,846 comments, earning a total of 4,664,429 sats, for an average of 5.61 sats per word, and 8.66 sats per word on posts.
Top Stackers
Here were the top stackers for the month of July:
Top Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps across all items
| Stacker | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @Murch | 1,136,104 | 3 | 73 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @denlillaapan | 232,067 | 95 | 719 | bitcoin | econ |
| @Scoresby | 229,278 | 120 | 668 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @Malos_10 | 131,569 | 21 | 28 | photos | Photography |
| @Undisciplined | 128,548 | 72 | 1,039 | accountability | Stacker_Sports |
@Murch coming out on top thanks to #1536238. The ColdCard drain started being reported on July 30th, just in time to meet this month's cutoff date!
Most Active
Measured by total number of items posted
| Stacker | Items | Posts | Comments | Sats | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @BlokchainB | 1,483 | 86 | 1,397 | 95,441 | bitcoin | Stacker_Stocks |
| @Undisciplined | 1,111 | 72 | 1,039 | 128,548 | accountability | Stacker_Sports |
| @grayruby | 954 | 60 | 894 | 111,146 | game | Stacker_Sports |
| @denlillaapan | 814 | 95 | 719 | 232,067 | bitcoin | econ |
| @Scoresby | 788 | 120 | 668 | 229,278 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
Highest Signal
Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)
| Stacker | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears | 8,373 | 92,105 | 11 | man | movies |
| @Malos_10 | 6,221 | 130,646 | 21 | photos | Photography |
| @schmidty | 5,002 | 60,029 | 12 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @wackster | 4,313 | 43,128 | 10 | bitcoin | AMA |
| @SimpleStacker | 3,499 | 48,983 | 14 | bitcoin | econ |
Good to see some not-primarily bitcoin related discussion attracting sats this month!
Most Prolific
Measured by number of words
| Stacker | Words | Sats | Sats/Word | Favorite Word | Favorite Territory |
| @Scoresby | 65,143 | 229,278 | 3.52 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @denlillaapan | 64,841 | 232,067 | 3.58 | bitcoin | econ |
| @BlokchainB | 58,947 | 95,441 | 1.62 | bitcoin | Stacker_Stocks |
| @optimism | 35,998 | 59,411 | 1.65 | bitcoin | bitcoin |
| @daily_btc_lore | 29,440 | 45,237 | 1.54 | bitcoin | history |
Top Territories
Here were the top territories for the month of July:
Top Zapped
Measured by total sats earned on zaps in both posts and comments
| Territory | Sats | Posts | Comments | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 2,279,504 | 395 | 3,040 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 452,343 | 301 | 3,135 | putt |
| ~econ | 353,911 | 175 | 1,035 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Stocks | 255,241 | 121 | 1,163 | market |
| ~bitcoin_beginners | 238,745 | 124 | 535 | bitcoin |
Highest Signal
Measured by the highest number of sats per post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)
| Territory | Sats/Post | Post Sats | Posts | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 4,986 | 1,969,520 | 395 | bitcoin |
| ~Coinjoins | 4,193 | 67,084 | 16 | bitcoin |
| ~movies | 3,562 | 92,600 | 26 | movie |
| ~security | 2,553 | 51,053 | 20 | bitcoin |
| ~Photography | 2,499 | 154,931 | 62 | photos |
Hottest Discussion
Measured by total number of comments in territory
| Territory | Comments | Posts | Comments/Post | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~Stacker_Sports | 3,135 | 301 | 9.2 | 452,343 | putt |
| ~bitcoin | 3,040 | 395 | 7.1 | 2,279,504 | bitcoin |
| ~Stacker_Stocks | 1,163 | 121 | 7.5 | 255,241 | market |
| ~econ | 1,035 | 175 | 6.2 | 353,911 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 983 | 179 | 5.4 | 230,506 | state |
Most Crossposted
Measured by number of posts with more than one territory
| Territory | Crossposts | Posts | Sats | Favorite Word |
| ~bitcoin | 241 | 395 | 2,279,504 | bitcoin |
| ~econ | 146 | 175 | 353,911 | bitcoin |
| ~Politics_And_Law | 133 | 179 | 230,506 | state |
| ~bitcoin_beginners | 110 | 124 | 238,745 | bitcoin |
| ~AI | 96 | 126 | 128,783 | ai |
Top Words
And finally, here were the top words for the month of July:
By Frequency
Measured by the total number of times the term appears in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| bitcoin | 4,480 | 73,466 |
| abs | 1,722 | 738 |
| sats | 1,568 | 10,281 |
| july | 1,001 | 3,433 |
| ai | 928 | 10,634 |
| world | 891 | 8,213 |
| wallet | 850 | 85,353 |
| lightning | 843 | 15,430 |
| money | 728 | 5,295 |
| node | 675 | 6,997 |
abs is slowly creeping its way back to the top )+(
By Sats
Each word is allocated sats from zaps based on its relative frequency of appearance in posts and comments
| Word | Frequency | Sats |
| wallet | 850 | 85,353 |
| coldcard | 138 | 79,183 |
| bitcoin | 4,480 | 73,466 |
| case | 355 | 40,980 |
| thread | 154 | 40,053 |
| second | 251 | 40,038 |
| user | 234 | 39,733 |
| happened | 174 | 39,415 |
| address | 252 | 39,282 |
| heard | 120 | 39,132 |
These are words coming almost entirely from the top post of the month #1536238, which on its own attracted over 1 million sats!
Most Boosted / Downzapped
There have been some allegations of front-page manipulation via the use of boosts and downzaps. So here I wanted to list the top 10 most boosted / most downzapped items for the month. Let's see if any patterns emerge. I present the information without comment. I don't know why these posts were boosted or downzapped.
Top Boosted
- Wasabi Wallet - Privacy by Default by @Kruw (Boost: 184,031 sats)
- Wasabi v2.8.1 - Stable release, receive Taproot by default by @Kruw (Boost: 53,149 sats)
- THE BLACK HOLE by @Kruw (Boost: 49,524 sats)
- Chainalysis is built into Spark by @Kruw (Boost: 45,664 sats)
- [500k BOUNTY] DeWhirlpooler visualizer by @Kruw (Boost: 42,260 sats)
- BTCDash — free live Bitcoin dashboard: 70+ metrics by @BTCDash21 (Boost: 20,000 sats)
- My Local Bar is Closing: On Schelling Points and the Decline of Third Spaces by @ihatevake (Boost: 20,000 sats)
- The Four Horsemen by @Kruw (Boost: 15,171 sats)
- [Zcash edition] | | Bitcoin is the shitcoin killer by @Kruw (Boost: 14,210 sats)
- Will you quit Bitcoin if your side of the fork isn't the heaviest chain? by @Kruw (Boost: 11,420 sats)
Top Downzapped
- Emily Wilson on The Odyssey by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears (Downzaps: 70,840 sats)
- A Deep Dive into Strategy Returns and Financial Wizardry by @denlillaapan (Downzaps: 15,701 sats)
- Financialization is a Force for... Bad (FT, Gillian Tett) by @denlillaapan (Downzaps: 10,420 sats)
- THE BLACK HOLE by @Kruw (Downzaps: 7,021 sats)
- What is Satoshi's Favor? And how can I win 21,000 sats? by @NEEDcreations (Downzaps: 6,800 sats)
- I work on Bitcoin Quest every single day. We are looking for more team members by @NEEDcreations (Downzaps: 6,600 sats)
- Wasabi Wallet is unstoppable by @lontivero (Downzaps: 6,000 sats)
- 10k sats after delivery: one README or landing-page teardown today by @FieldNote (Downzaps: 5,000 sats)
- STRIKE DOWN DAC8, THE MASS SURVEILLANCE OF BITCOIN USERS by @BullBitcoin_ (Downzaps: 5,000 sats)
- Clams v1: Local-First Accounting for Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid by @Scoresby (Downzaps: 4,042 sats)
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this edition of Stacker News Monthly! Remember, stay humble and stack sats.
Let's go. We have a new favourite word in the territory thanks to @BlokchainB. Putt has supplanted game.
Wow!!
There's no beating the Murch this month, obviously... but VERY happy I could narrowly win out over Scoresby!
Also, at 3.58 sats/word I think the remuneration is on a downward trend now. Used to be above 4!!
dammit
I'm slightly less efficient per combined (post+comments) activity...
WE NEED MORE SHITPOSTING
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The downzaps are intriguing.
Maybe it’s time to look at most controversial. That could be something like the absolute value of the ratio of the sum of up and down zaps to their difference. Maybe the sum should be squared too.
I've done controversial before. I think I did sqrt(zaps*downzaps). standard cobb douglas
One way or the other, it seems like something of interest.
Movies taking highest signal is pretty cool! The stackers love the controversy, be it soft forks or epic poetry!
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