Stacker News is a Bitcoin and Lightning Network-powered community forum that uses monetary incentives to rank and moderate content, founded by Keyan Kousha. Stacker News's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #35,349 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Stacker News operates as an open forum where users send Lightning Network micropayments, known as zaps, to surface and moderate content rather than relying on traditional voting or algorithmic curation. The platform is fully open-source under the MIT License and pays Bitcoin to contributors who improve its codebase. In July 2022, Stacker News raised a $1.25M seed round at a $25M post-money valuation, per public reporting at the time.
Stacker News was backed by Hivemind Capital Partners, Caffeinated Capital and its Collective Fund, Max Webster, Ross Stevens, Raymond Tonsing, Mishti Sharma, and Steve Lee. Stacker News has published 15,498 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 101 accounts a total of 383 times.
Who follows Stacker News on X?
The accounts that follow Stacker News include 144 founders, 14 angel investors, 82 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Udi Wertheimer, Lyn Alden, TO, Alex Gladstein, Blockstream and The Bitcoin Conference.