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Stacker News Monthly: April 2026 - Return of the Abs )+(
3492 sats \ 16 comments \ @SimpleStacker 18 May meta

Stacker News Monthly: April 2026 - Return of the Abs )+(Stacker News Monthly: April 2026 - Return of the Abs )+(

Welcome to this month's edition of Stacker News Monthly! Today we're going to take a look back at the month of April 2026!

This month, 478 stackers wrote 785,576 words across 2,061 posts and 14,504 comments, earning a total of 2,741,302 sats, for an average of 3.49 sats per word, and 5.48 sats per word on posts.

Top StackersTop Stackers

Here were the top stackers for the month of April:

Top ZappedTop Zapped

Measured by total sats earned on zaps across all items

StackerSatsPostsCommentsFavorite WordFavorite Territory
@denlillaapan236,98764623moneyecon
@petertodd181,671329ukrainebitcoin
@Scoresby175,007121529bitcoinbitcoin
@0xbitcoiner142,515184349readecon
@SimpleStacker118,27127474bitcoinecon

Most ActiveMost Active

Measured by total number of items posted

StackerItemsPostsCommentsSatsFavorite WordFavorite Territory
@Undisciplined1,122381,08479,922gameStacker_Sports
@grayruby1,0426198185,339draftStacker_Sports
@BlokchainB9549585973,193plundaStacker_Stocks
@denlillaapan68764623236,987moneyecon
@Scoresby650121529175,007bitcoinbitcoin

Highest SignalHighest Signal

Measured by sats per post (minimum 5)

StackerSats/PostPost SatsPostsFavorite WordFavorite Territory
@Aardvark3,21416,0715bitcoinlightning
@denlillaapan3,063196,04364moneyecon
@Signal3122,98638,81813warmeta
@SimpleStacker2,92078,84527bitcoinecon
@Jon_Hodl2,27011,3495bitcoinbitcoin

Most ProlificMost Prolific

Measured by number of words

StackerWordsSatsSats/WordFavorite WordFavorite Territory
@Scoresby64,600175,0072.71bitcoinbitcoin
@denlillaapan54,171236,9874.37moneyecon
@Solomonsatoshi46,05427,2820.59warPolitics_And_Law
@0xbitcoiner38,336142,5153.72readecon
@BlokchainB30,90073,1932.37plundaStacker_Stocks

Top TerritoriesTop Territories

Here were the top territories for the month of April:

Top ZappedTop Zapped

Measured by total sats earned on zaps in both posts and comments

TerritorySatsPostsCommentsFavorite Word
~bitcoin861,4643872,537bitcoin
~econ379,1852011,452money
~Stacker_Sports255,7792742,779game
~Politics_And_Law214,2001981,437iran
~Travel189,5761078river

Highest SignalHighest Signal

Measured by the highest number of sats per post (minimum 10; AMA excluded)

TerritorySats/PostPost SatsPostsFavorite Word
~Travel18,356183,56410river
~Christianity2,33230,31313god
~bitcoin1,824705,861387bitcoin
~bitcoin_Mining1,50440,60527mining
~math1,47154,42737block

Hottest DiscussionHottest Discussion

Measured by total number of comments in territory

TerritoryCommentsPostsComments/PostSatsFavorite Word
~Stacker_Sports2,77927410.1255,779game
~bitcoin2,5373876.2861,464bitcoin
~econ1,4522017.2379,185money
~Politics_And_Law1,4371986.7214,200iran
~lightning8031047.1157,161lightning

Most CrosspostedMost Crossposted

Measured by number of posts with more than one territory

TerritoryCrosspostsPostsSatsFavorite Word
~bitcoin224387861,464bitcoin
~econ139201379,185money
~Politics_And_Law111198214,200iran
~AI95166140,481ai
~bitcoin_beginners88108138,327bitcoin

Top WordsTop Words

And finally, here were the top words for the month of April:

By FrequencyBy Frequency

Measured by the total number of times the term appears in posts and comments

WordFrequencySats
bitcoin3,30746,908
sats1,51112,664
abs1,4161,151
money8256,087
world8025,585
ai7397,808
april7013,416
war6964,945
read6145,569
lightning6105,929

Oh, look what word is creeping its way back up the leaderboard!

By SatsBy Sats

Each word is allocated sats from zaps based on its relative frequency of appearance in posts and comments

WordFrequencySats
bitcoin3,30746,908
sats1,51112,664
quantum5248,546
ai7397,808
uh317,544
hu67,210
money8256,087
iran6096,049
lightning6105,929
world8025,585

Quantum had a bit of a moment in the sun this month.

What are the most unequal territories?What are the most unequal territories?

In #1482920, I wondered which territories had the most unequal distribution of sats earnings. @Undisciplined said that I'm the only one who'd ever bother to calculate such a thing... and I'm ashamed to say that he's right.

Well, here it is, for the month of April: Distribution of post-zaps earned by posters within a territory, for territories with at least 20 unique posters. ~econ was the most unequal territory, with the top 20% of posters taking 84.2% of the post-zaps. Out of all the territories with at least 20 unique posters, ~nostr was the most equal, with the top 20% taking 56.7% of the post-zaps.

For the record, all the territories are still less equal than the income distribution of the USA, where the top 20% of earners took home 52.2% of the pay.

This is only for the month of April, so the numbers might change and be more stable if averaged over multiple months. Unfortunately, I don't have the right data to do that comparison properly right now, so maybe some other time.

TerritoryTop 20%20%-40%40%-60%60%-80%Bottom 20%Num Posters
~econ84.2%9.6%4.4%1.4%0.4%34
~Politics_And_Law81.8%10.7%4.6%2.2%0.7%41
~bitcoin78.8%12.1%5.7%2.6%0.8%123
~BooksAndArticles77.0%13.1%5.9%3.2%0.8%24
~Music75.8%12.4%7.4%2.5%1.9%22
~bitcoin_beginners73.9%12.9%8.6%3.4%1.1%32
~Stacker_Stocks73.6%12.8%7.2%4.5%1.9%24
~history72.6%14.9%7.4%3.5%1.7%20
~AI71.3%15.7%7.0%3.9%2.1%53
~lightning68.1%15.6%9.9%4.6%1.8%37
~news66.8%15.3%9.5%5.0%3.3%27
~Photography66.8%16.5%9.1%5.8%1.8%20
~AskSN64.6%18.5%8.6%5.6%2.6%24
~tech63.3%18.6%10.0%5.7%2.5%35
~Stacker_Sports58.6%26.4%9.8%3.9%1.4%29
~nostr56.7%18.9%10.9%7.6%5.9%21
~USA52.2%22.5%14.0%8.2%3.1%340 million

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this edition of Stacker News Monthly! Remember, stay humble and stack sats.

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170 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 18 May

My sats/word count is out of this world! amazing

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68 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 18 May

These reports make me smile.

I also fear that if growth were to 10x from here my brain would explode.

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91 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 18 May
I also fear that if growth were to 10x from here my brain would explode.

Why?

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90 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 18 May

I can barely keep up with all the posts and comments now.

10x the people means a firehose of content

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147 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 18 May

Territories will be even more important if that happens

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 18 May

Yeah that is true

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190 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 18 May

The income distribution is a nice addition.

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107 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 May

You’re achieving your goal of more communism it seems

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58 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 18 May

I think that’s an indication that there are probably only 10 people posting and commenting in the territory.

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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 18 May

The ~Stacker_Sports data was calculated from 29 unique posters in the territory in the month of April. Not a bad number for this kind of statistic.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 18 May

29 not bad.

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170 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 18 May

I for one am happy that you calculated the zap distribution! Thank you! You're still the only one to calculate it I guess, but know that someone appreciates it! (Not sure about calling it "income" and comparing to US income distribution, though, because these aren't jobs / contracted services. Maybe it's better to compare with gratuity distribution?)

I'm also wondering: is it possible that the top 20% zappees has a large overlap with the top 20% zappers? Some in-/out-crowd effect?

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68 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 May

What’s this?

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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 18 May

Income distribution of the United States in 2024

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 18 May

murica!!

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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker 18 May

Good job! Keep it up

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