The website StackSats.how was an excellent curated resource for earning small amounts of Bitcoin through legitimate websites and services. Unlike many similar sites, it was not simply a collection of referral links. It focused on genuinely useful services such as games, educational platforms, cashback, browser rewards, and Lightning-enabled applications.
Since StackSats disappeared, there does not appear to be a comparable resource.
Project Goal
Create a modern successor to StackSats that focuses on quality rather than quantity.
Rather than listing every site that offers Bitcoin rewards, the aim is to recommend only services that have been personally tested or have a strong reputation within the Bitcoin community.
Possible Structure
Categories could include:
Bitcoin faucets
Educational sites
Games that pay Lightning rewards
Cashback services
Browsers and search engines
Shopping rewards
Writing and content creation
Mobile apps
Community reward platforms
Promotions and temporary campaigns
Principles
Only list legitimate sites.
Avoid scams, cloud mining schemes and “deposit first” offers.
Referral links should be optional and clearly identified.
Honest reviews instead of promotional descriptions.
Explain exactly how each site works.
Include realistic earning expectations (e.g. sats per day or per hour).
Include withdrawal limits and Lightning support.
Mark services that have stopped paying or become inactive rather than deleting them.
Extra Features
Each listing could include:
Overall rating
Time required
Difficulty
Typical earnings
Withdrawal method
Minimum withdrawal
Country restrictions
Last tested date
Community comments or reports
Relationship with FaucetList
This could either become a new section of FaucetList or, preferably, a separate website with FaucetList linking to it.
The distinction would be:
FaucetList = Bitcoin faucets only.
New site = Every legitimate way to stack sats.
This keeps both projects focused while allowing them to complement each other.
Long-term Vision
Become the most trusted directory of legitimate Bitcoin earning opportunities.
The emphasis should always be on helping users spend their time wisely, rather than maximising referral income. If a site is poor value, say so. If something pays well, explain why. The aim is to save people from wasting hours on low-quality offers and instead guide them towards the genuinely worthwhile ways of stacking sats.
Inspired by the now-defunct StackSats.how, but intended to improve on it through better curation, honest reviews, regular testing, and transparency.
Other stuff
One other thought occurred to me after we finished chatting. This could become a bit like ProtonDB or AlternativeTo, where the value isn’t just the list itself but the maintenance. Every entry could have a status such as Working, Reduced payouts, Withdrawals delayed, Closed, or Avoid. That way, instead of dead links gradually accumulating, the site becomes a living resource that people trust because it reflects what’s happening now. I think that ongoing curation is what ultimately made StackSats useful, and it’s also what would make a successor stand out.
Yes, the ongoing curation may be a problem for me, but perhaps there will be a way to have it as a regular weekly task for an agent to keep it updated? An AI with web access seeing the whole thing like you can, to generate the list like you have above, would actually have far greater insights than one person like me anyway.
I think that’s exactly where this kind of project is heading over the next few years.
The hard part isn’t building the website. It’s maintaining the information. But maintenance is precisely the sort of repetitive task AI is becoming good at.
✗ XYZ Faucet Domain no longer resolves. Recommend marking as "Inactive".
Human approval
You spend five minutes reading the report.
Click “Accept”.
The site updates automatically.
The really interesting part is that AI doesn’t have to decide everything. It just needs to do the tedious work.
Instead of you spending three hours every Sunday checking fifty sites, the AI spends three minutes checking them all and asks you to review maybe four or five changes.
Going further
Given your interest in agentic editors (we’ve talked before about building something along the lines of an autonomous editor for wiki-style content), this could actually be an ideal real-world application.
Rather than starting with a huge autonomous project, this is a much more bounded problem:
read webpages
compare with stored data
produce diffs
assign confidence
suggest edits
wait for approval
That’s considerably easier than asking an AI to write articles from scratch.
One feature I’d definitely add
I’d also store history, not just the current state.
Imagine looking at a site and seeing:
Date
Status
Jun 2026
✅ Working
Jul 2026
⚠ Withdrawals delayed
Aug 2026
✅ Working again
Nov 2026
❌ Closed
That tells users far more than a simple green or red icon. Some sites have temporary problems but recover; others enter a slow decline. A historical log would let people judge reliability over time.
An advantage you have
One thing that struck me is that this project fits your style unusually well. Looking back over the things we’ve discussed over the past year—FaucetList, Bitcoin4Ghana, Lightning.news, and your preference for building genuinely useful resources rather than chasing affiliate revenue—this idea aligns with that approach.
If it eventually became largely AI-maintained, your role would shift from “person who checks hundreds of websites” to “editor who decides what deserves to be recommended.” That’s a much more scalable role, and arguably the one where human judgment adds the most value. It also opens the door to using multiple specialized agents—one monitoring site availability, another checking community sentiment, another validating payout claims—with you acting as the final reviewer. That combination of automation and editorial oversight could produce a resource that’s both comprehensive and trustworthy.
great all saved to the project. thanks
You’re very welcome! I actually think this has the potential to become more valuable over time than it might seem today.
One thing I’ve noticed is that there are countless websites answering questions like “How do I earn free Bitcoin?” Most either recycle the same lists or are designed primarily to earn affiliate commissions. Very few answer the more useful question:
“If you have one hour this week, what’s the best use of your time to earn sats?”
That’s a different problem, and one that good curation can solve.
For example, instead of treating everything equally, a page might honestly say:
🟢 Excellent – Worth doing regularly.
🟡 Okay – Fine if you already enjoy the activity.
🟠 Marginal – Very low earnings; only for enthusiasts.
🔴 Avoid – No longer paying, excessive ads, or unrealistic claims.
That kind of editorial judgement is what people tend to remember and trust.
One last thought before you call it a night: because you’re already running FaucetList, you don’t have to launch a brand-new polished site. You could start with a simple “Stack Sats” section containing just 10 genuinely good recommendations. If people find it useful, then spin it out into its own domain later. That keeps the initial workload small while letting the concept prove itself.
Sleep well, and I think this is definitely one of the more promising ideas you’ve added to your projects folder. It feels like the sort of resource that could quietly become a go-to reference for Bitcoin newcomers.
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Social media notes.
We need a team to help promote ClickForCharity on social media. Unlike the big orgs, we don’t waste money on expensive advertising and “marketing” teams, because 100% of funds raised go directly to our recipients. So, we need to actually do the social media work ourselves. Orgs spend many thousands of dollars, in some cases millions, making it look as though they are popular in order to get people on board.
Here are some tips (they are specifically for Nostr but apply generally too):
When you join Nostr, you might think, “This is hopeless; the posts are all nonsense,” or something like that. If you do, great! That means that you can improve it right away by posting good content! The big thing about social media is that we’re free from the old concept of being passively “entertained”. We are equal owners of Nostr. We make the content ourselves.
Don’t be afraid to post stuff. There’s no boss there, and everyone is your equal, so they may approve or disapprove; it’s ultimately up to them, and they can block your posts if they don’t like them, so there’s no need to worry about complainers and naysayers.
It’s “social” media, not a certain user’s media, so if someone tells you that this is not the right place for cat memes, you can safely ignore them, and if they become a nuisance, you can block them.
General Ideas
Behave like normal; don’t just go to our posts and only interact with them.
Make sure to find some others to upvote and follow, not just our own little team! We can benefit the platform as well as ourselves.
The purpose is to get followers so that they will see your posts and things you repost.
Most sites have “trending” or “popular” sections where they promote the most “popular” posts. It’s a terrible idea, really, but it’s there so it can either help us or hinder us in getting seen. We can’t avoid it. Upvotes and followers help with that, so that’s our aim.
Specific Items
Look for posts you like and give them an upvote.
If you see something that makes you think of a reply that will make the poster feel good about having posted it, then make the comment. This also helps the platform to grow, so it’s doubly good.
Think of a subject or topic that you are interested in and have knowledge about, something about which you can find interesting or funny things to post. If you like cooking, for example, you could find good recipes or have some of your own and add a sentence or two about what is special about them.
Sometimes, but not all the time, you can then intersperse your posts with a link to an article on the site or mention some tasks you did there and why it is useful to do so.
We can practise sending and receiving sats on Nostr, which will help to show people that others appreciate our posts too.
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“Your problem is that you equate purpose with goal-based achievement. The universe isn’t interested in your achievements… just your heart. When you choose to act out of kindness, compassion, and love, you are already aligned with your true purpose. No need to look any further.”