Starting tomorrow, Stacker News is running a new rewards experiment called Million Sat Madness.
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How Million Sat Madness Works

Stacker News is giving away millions of sats to the top 64 SN contributors in March. One stacker is guaranteed a grand prize of 1 million sats + bonuses, and the rest of the top 64 are guaranteed a percentage share of another 2 million sats + bonuses.
The bonuses are funds that would otherwise be sent to the daily rewards pool. Instead of being paid each day, they will be added to the Million Sat Madness bonus pool and be paid at the end of March on top of the 3 million guaranteed sats.
To be clear, Million Sat Madness is a replacement (not a complement) to daily rewards this month.
The bonus pool is paid proportionally to your guaranteed sats, so the more you earn from guaranteed sats, the more youโ€™ll earn from the bonus pool.
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How To Participate in Million Sat Madness

Everyone on SN can participate simply by creating and zapping great content. Tomorrow morning, the rewards page will display a leaderboard (updated hourly) of stackers in position to earn rewards as part of Million Sat Madness.
An "estimated rewards" number will also be added to the leaderboard to give stackers a better idea of the rewards for each one of the top 64 positions.
Just like with all our past rewards experiments, Million Sat Madness rewards people who bring value to Stacker News. That means:
  • creating great posts and comments
  • zapping great posts and comments
The rewards algorithm Stacker News uses is still the same, the only difference is that your score accumulates over the entire month of March instead of resetting each day.
This also means you donโ€™t have to be active every single day to earn rewards, however your score is cumulative so frequent participation on Stacker News is a better strategy.
If you prefer to hide your username from the Million Sat Madness leaderboard, you can toggle your profile's visibility in your settings.
If you have any questions, leave them below.
Yeehaw! ๐Ÿค 
716 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 29 Feb
This is fucking wild guys, SN is going to be hammered.
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That's a big prize. I predict it's about to get post apocalyptic.
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I'm just making predictions, not giving advice. We'll see where the month takes us.
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Gotta say Darth, you are not an easy guy to like, but I love this meme. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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227 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 29 Feb
great show
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 29 Feb
... Wow.
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to the post zappers, the sats farmers, the news informers, the cowboys, the plebs. i salute you and wish you luck. may your posts' quality, like your name on the leader board, be high. the gauntlet has been thrown. lfg!
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @co574 1 Mar
Post-Zapper here, ready to launch! ๐Ÿซก
M Sats Madness Month! Exciting initiative.
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Bugle is going for it
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 29 Feb
godspeed, sir ๐Ÿซก
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Stackers, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now, you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking almost certainly all my spare time.
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Nice. Let me whip up something...
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๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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403 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 29 Feb
Tasty!
I'm going to have to write harder....
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523 sats \ 0 replies \ @fred 29 Feb
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365 sats \ 3 replies \ @davidw 29 Feb
Let the dopamine begin.
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356 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 29 Feb
You misspelled "anxiety"
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Stacker dopamine hits different
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My dopamine is ready...
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119 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 1 Mar
may the best @anon win!
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This place is gonna be a bit mad for a whileโ€ฆ. Iโ€™ll be in the Saloon when everyone calms down
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And howโ€™s that for a slice of fried gold?
To The Winchester!
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I'll get the first round in ๐Ÿป
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98 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 1 Mar
3 Million Sats just got added to rewards. https://stacker.news/rewards
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sn OP 1 Mar
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293 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 29 Feb
Wow this is nifty.
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293 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jetty 29 Feb
Yes! Let's gooooooooo!!! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Letโ€™s go cowboys & cowgirls!
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Lol cowgirls
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Wow... Well, if somebody wants, you can read my creations. I try to bring positive news to SN. Will try to keep the pace in March.
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This is awesome. Promote this aggressively on bitcoin twitter and nostr and you should get a lot of new accounts created.
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Welp there goes my rewards. Yโ€™all can catch me zapping!
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254 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 1 Mar
You donโ€™t think youโ€™re worthy boogie?
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Helll nawwwwww lol
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Where is the cowboy hat in all this madness?
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146 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 29 Feb
Perhaps the top 3 should get Stacker News baseball caps. Would be pretty cool to have something physical to represent March madness.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 29 Feb
They should get a damn gun for Satoshi's sake!
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due to too much madness, it got forgotten. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Stacker News is giving away millions of sats to the top 64 SN contributors in March. One stacker is guaranteed a grand prize of 1 million sats + bonuses, and the rest of the top 64 are guaranteed a percentage share of another 2 million sats + bonuses.
I can sense many good content are on the way. ๐Ÿ‘€ and why 64?
To be clear, Million Sat Madness is a replacement (not a complement) to daily rewards this month.
This also means you donโ€™t have to be active every single day to earn rewards, however your score is cumulative so frequent participation on Stacker News is a better strategy.
oh, so no more daily rewards, and don't need to work daily, hmmmm, fun experiment.
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199 sats \ 4 replies \ @kr 29 Feb
why 64?
iโ€™ve always wanted to ask the NCAA that same question ๐Ÿ€
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4 brackets of 16= 64. I guess they could have had 4 brackets of 8 but that would just be a tournament and not madness.
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If I understand correctly, only 64 stackers will receive rewards at the end of the month, right? I think it should be 128 :)
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 29 Feb
yes, 1 + 63 - why 128?
and I guess the majority of the lucky ones are the daily customers of the @saloon ๐Ÿ˜‚
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simple: 2^6
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Just to be clear, the sats we contribute to the daily rewards pool is not part of the contest award?
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all the sats that would otherwise go to daily rewards, instead go to the Million Sat Madness bonus pool this month
Are you planning any external advertising to take advantage of this attractive prize pool? @sn
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 1 Mar
Tomorrow morning, the rewards page will display a leaderboard (updated hourly) of stackers in position to earn rewards as part of Million Sat Madness.
I am not seeing a leaderboard. Is there possibly an update issue where the reward page didn't get changed over?
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This is so much fun!
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I'm a Satillionaire at last. Thank you SN for this.
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I'm a satillionholic
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I'm curious to see how the ranking would stand in February. Any chance you can show that?
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Why am I not surprised about the fact that you wanna scrutinise the data to put yourself in the best position? ๐Ÿ˜‹๐Ÿ˜œ
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I was wondering if my performance in the sn was good enough to make it into the top 64 :)
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Sat madness is better than cash madness
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you sayin' I ain't winning sh*t :-) SN making millionaires this month!! Bravo! :)
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Sweet! love it here! ๐Ÿ˜
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Haha nice.. **..
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I need those sats. I have FIVE kids to feed! LMAO
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Seems legit. Stack sats, people.
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Is there a way to see where am I in the ranking?
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the top 64 are shown here but if you have "hide me from top stackers" toggled on in your profile settings, you'll appear as "stacker is in hiding" on the leaderboard
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I'm not hidden and not in the table - that's why I'm asking if it's possible to see where I am and how much action I need to do to qualify...
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sn OP 5 Mar
will work on getting the full leaderboard displayed so people can see beyond the top 64
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77 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 5 Mar
Great ๐Ÿ™
Please tag me when available
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Just Wow!!!
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As if SN wasn't already full of random low-quality posts just to get a few sats. This way you attract a lot of new over-excited community members that will start to share random stuff, or incentivize the usual suspects to keep posting, because it's almost granted that the prize will be won by a big zapper. I don't know, I don't quite like this little experiment. I hope it's just a one-off.
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You guys should start thinking about the 4 letters
SNWS?
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That is a great news. It means I have gotten a job - full paid employment for the month of March at stacker news. I didn't even go for an interview for this to happen. Great news.
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It is morning here and I don't see the leaderboard. Where do you live?
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1M sats! This is awesome. Let's go!
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Good for the wallets. ๐Ÿ˜
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@sn, after announcing the Million Sat Madness on SN, be like...
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@ek can we have an ~oracle post as well about the winner of this one million sats, with all proceeds used to support a cause? I wonโ€™t shamelessly bet on myself to win ofc
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 Mar
Not sure I understand. You want to have a post in ~oracle where we bet who wins?
You don't need me or my permission to create posts in ~oracle, so I am a bit confused what my role is in this ๐Ÿค”
Also, you probably know better what you are after, so go ahead, sounds interesting!
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Todays million sat grand prize is yesterdays 25 BitCoin 5-8th place.
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Yesterday I became millionaire - #443743
This month we'll have one more over here. Many thanks for this opportunity to change someone's life
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Amazing ๐Ÿ‘
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Whoa! This will take SN madness to ultra zapping. I'm ready, ๐Ÿ‘‰ Are you?
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Yippie ki-yay! ๐Ÿค 
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Sounds like the Squid Games actually. Only, there are 64 winners ๐Ÿ…
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bots bots bots bots bots.. bots
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I'm quite new to this platform, is this the first time you are doing this 'Million Sat Madness'?
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Yes.
But the SN team does like to experiment with the rewards system from time to time. Usually changing how the rewards are cacluated.
I think this is the first time they have change the time period. (From day to month)
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I like it!
New experiment, new experience!
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Very interesting experiment, Iโ€™m in. Kudos to @sn for always trying new things. ๐Ÿค™
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What's weird is we give away this many sats every month but because it's not a lump sum you all just think it's whatever.
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Yeah, for the top 64 it's no different except they'll get everyone elses rewards, but for the rest, 65 and over you'll get fk all earnings. This is the kind of corporate crap I don't miss. Let the hunger games begin
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Yeah, I'm not into these fiat style competitions either. Definitely reminds me of job bonus schemes that have all the workers competing with each other for that bonus pot at the end of the quarter/year and only a select few will get a share. Of course they train us as kids at school for this, starting with gold star sticker charts.
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So is tomorrow morning the last day for receiving "regular" rewards then? (Until April of course)
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 29 Feb
yes
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thanks for clarifying
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Cโ€™est gรฉnial, hรขte de voir la suite
Hello guys, first post on stacker.news Logged in via Nostr extension. Happy to be here ๐Ÿ˜Ž
I am new to you site , but this sounds like a interesting project
Predicted post will be 30 mins or less gap in every teritory.. its goin' to be a flood.
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Cheers to those richest
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Awesome experiment! Letยดs hope for the best and the new wave of stackers arriving here can bring quality + quantity at the same time. Boat is gonna be overcrowded soon! ;)
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
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yes
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