This is a PSA for stackers who want to spread the word about SN at Bitcoin meetups and stack some extra sats along the way.
Stacker News invite links are a great way to help someone you know get started on SN.
Invite links differ from referral links in that you can pre-load some sats on the link for another user, which makes onboarding new stackers much more fun for both of you.
The downside with these links is that if you publicly share the link on Twitter or some other social platform, bots may snatch up the sats you allocated to onboarding new stackers.
For that reason, we recommend only sharing invite links with people you know, rather than publicly sharing them online (if you do happen to share your invite links publicly, can revoke them at any time).
The cool thing about Bitcoin meetups is that there are lots of Bitcoiners who love to stack sats, and may not have tried Stacker News yet. Since these meetups are in person, they are also a perfect venue for using invite links.
Using SN invite links, one can individually allocate each attendee of a Bitcoin meetup with a set number of sats, and be sure that all the invite links are being claimed by humans that actually care about Bitcoin.
This is something we will be testing ourselves, but we also wanted to share this strategy publicly in case other stackers want to test it out too.
PS. Invite links work just like referral links, where you earn sats when your referee either earns sats themselves or boosts something.