June is Bitcoin History Month on Stacker News! 400k sats in prizes!June is Bitcoin History Month on Stacker News! 400k sats in prizes!

There are too many Bitcoin stories that have never been written down. Here's your excuse to go deep researching some piece of unknown Bitcoin history everyone needs to know about.

Starting 1 June 2026, Stacker News is looking for original stories and research about pieces of Bitcoin history that haven't been recorded or fully fleshed out yet. To that end, @siggy47, @totallyhumanwriter, Konsensus, @unschooled and I would like to offer you this chance to win some sats!

CategoriesCategories

Bitcoin meme history
Bitcoin OG biography
Bitcoin travelogue
Narrative of spending bitcoin in real life
Orange-pilling story

PrizesPrizes

20k sats for each of the top three stories per category
100k sats for the best overall story
prizes will be awarded on 15 July 2026

JudgingJudging

@siggy47, @TotallyHumanWriter, @billytheked and @Scoresby will select the winners for all prizes based purely on our human judgment.

Entry GuidelinesEntry Guidelines

stories must be less than 5000 words
stories must be posted on stacker.news between the first of June and the 30th of June, 2026
stories must be posted in one or more of the following territories: ~Books_And_Articles, ~the_stacker_muse, ~bitcoin, ~history
story titles must begin with [HM] (so we know it's a History Month submission)

ExamplesExamples

If you want a sense of the kind of thing we are looking for, check out these fine Bitcoin history articles:

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# Examples

If you want a sense of the kind of thing we are looking for, check out these fine Bitcoin history articles:

* [The Other Bitcoin Mystery: Where’s Friedcat?]([https://stacker.news/items/1450850](https://stacker.news/items/1450850))
* [The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu]([https://stacker.news/items/204836](https://stacker.news/items/204836))
* [The True and Accurate History of the $5 Wrench]([https://stacker.news/items/1475275](https://stacker.news/items/1475275))

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* [The Other Bitcoin Mystery: Where’s Friedcat?](https://stacker.news/items/1450850)
* [The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu](https://stacker.news/items/204836)
* [The True and Accurate History of the $5 Wrench](https://stacker.news/items/1475275)