WAHT Stackchain Done Dided: The King of StackChain™
WAHT Stackchain Done Dided: The King of StackChain™

WAHT Stackchain Done Dided: The King of StackChain™

WAHT Stackchain Done Dided: The King of StackChain™ 

with @BTC_Freeborn and @AnthonyDessauer

(Transcribed and modified for print from the popular Stackchain Peencast)

This is BTC Freeborn with the What Stackchain Done Dided Peencast, where we talk Stackchain and interview experts in the world of Stackchain, stackonomics, consensus, forks, and adoption. Today we are talking with Anthony Dessauer about his first stack at Block 16, how he became King of Stackchain and the work he’s been doing with the Flash Stack donation campaigns. Welcome, Anthony.

Anthony vonStackChain:

What’s up, man? Thanks for having me, Freeborn. It’s an honor and a privilege to be on What Stackchain Done Dided.

BTC Freeborn:

Yeah, likewise. I always want to start with kind of the same question to different interviewees. I went back and found your first stack at Block 16, posted on July 18, 2022, so that was very early days in the Stackchain. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to Stackchain?

Anthony vonStackChain:

Pretty simple. I saw Arizona Hodl’s tweet and I saw other people stacking and I was like, fuck it, I’ll stack to that. And the stack height wasn’t high, like you said, my first stack was 16. So, to participate in the Twitter game that was going on, it only cost 16 cuck bucks at that moment in time. I figured why not? And I think in that first day we stacked a lot. I mean, the blocks came in faster than any other period in Stackchain history, so the energy was really high. The Have Fun Stacking Sats was really high, even though we didn’t even know at that time that we were even participating in Stackchain or that we were participating in anything at all, except for a Twitter post.

BTC Freeborn:

Yeah, I saw Arizona Hodl stack and for me at the time it was just nice to know that other people were stacking with me. But I was not posting my stacks on Twitter or with anybody else. It really wasn’t until the 300 block where it kind of triggered something for me. I thought, man, this is something really cool and engaging. So, it took me a little while to come around to it, but I’m glad I did.

The title of this installment is The King of Stackchain, and I honestly did not really understand that reference until I came back in and was kind of preparing for this interview. If you go back to Block 24, which was also one of your blocks, you appointed yourself as the King of Stackchain. So, I just want to ask who elected you King, man?

Anthony vonStackChain:

Yeah, I elected myself. Back then, Stack 24 was actually the first time anybody even referred to Stackchain as Stackchain. So not only did I call myself the King of Stackchain, I used the word Stackchain for the first time in that block. And really what was going on in my mind is that Stackchain was like a King of the Hill kind of thing, where everybody’s fighting to be the person standing at the top of the hill. So, I was declaring that at that moment in time, I was the King of the Hill. I was on the Tip™ – I knocked everybody off. So that’s what the Tweet was about. I am the King of Stackchain and that’s all that was. But then Stackchain is one enormous year+ long meme that just keeps evolving. So that part also evolved.  And then it’s fun to pretend that I’m a megalomaniac sometimes because I’m not.

BTC Freeborn:

It is a big battle of King of the Hill. But the good thing is that when you get knocked off, you get to keep the sats, so it’s easy to come back around and celebrate the next person that comes and stacks on top of you. And that still goes on today. There’s a culture around having the Tip™ for longer periods of time, battling a specific person to fight for the King of the Hill, essentially. I didn’t know when Stackchain, the word, started to get used. And it’s interesting that so early in the stacking and the stack height, that those dynamics were there and are still now.

Anthony vonStackChain:

Yeah, it’s super impressive. And just going back to what you were talking about before, there is no losing at Stackchain. So that’s one of the key things. And I think that the King of the Hill desire kind of goes away after a while. I think it’s the NGU thing of Stackchain. Like you show up and you want to be King of the Hill and then as you become part of the community and you involve yourself in different things, then you just want to be a part of Stackchain. And the theme becomes, stacking sats and having fun.

BTC Freeborn:

You’re right, that King of the Hill mentality really does evolve, not only for the Stackchain, but for specific people. Myself, I can’t buy full blocks nowadays and I spend my time either on coffee chain or microStackchain, or wherever else I can put hash. But then there’s this other aspect, of like, I want to contribute to the community and make things fun for everybody else.

That leads me into the second part of what I wanted to talk about with you, because one of the things that everybody who is active on the Chain notices is that you have branched out, in addition to stacking, into what we call flash stacks, specifically donation flash stacks and stacking campaigns.

Just to define a flash stack for people new to Stackchain, it’s posting buys in a long chain and it’s typically on its own thread. A flash stack is someone starting a stacking campaign or a stacking thread on somebody else’s Twitter post that is not part of Stackchain or for something else.

One of the ways I’ve seen it done is like a FUD chain – a flash stack FUD chain where maybe somebody says bitcoin is going to zero and somebody else is so motivated that they will buy some bitcoin right there and post it on that person’s FUD.  Then other people will see that and post on top of it to a certain extent, taking over their threads, sending them all the notifications of us buying bitcoin. So that’s pretty satisfying, but that’s under certain topics. 

You’ve spearheaded some campaigns focused around donations to communities that are trying to increase bitcoin adoption in different places around the world. Can you talk about that a little bit?

Anthony vonStackChain:

Sure. And just to clear up the flash stack, the flash stacks are what you’re asking about, the different campaigns to further bitcoin adoption or charitable donations. The FUD thing, those are stack raids where we’re just going in and either stacking on a FUD post or we’re stacking supportively on something that we like. Like when we stacked on Yellow’s anniversary, that was a stack raid on Yellow because Yellow has been so supportive of Stackchain and furthering Bitcoin.

So, the flash stacks. I think Derek actually came up with the term flash stack. The first one we did was for Bitcoin Beach and the idea was to harness the power of Stackchain to do good in the world. And if you think about what Stackchain is, fundamentally the stack height and the stacks are just a mechanism, they’re like a flag, a banner that kind of brings everybody together. But what Stackchain really is, is a conduit for the hopeful nature of Bitcoiners. We stack sats and we want to do good in the world and Stackchain kind of raised a flag to bring like-minded people together.  And that’s how we ended up with this amazing community of people who want to contribute.

So, the first flash stack was Stacks for Bitcoin Beach. Derek had reached out to Carla and Walker to see if they were interested in participating. I think we were going to offer them some sats to do something and Walker responded because they were just in El Salvador and they had done a tour with Hope House.  They saw all the work that Roman from Hope House does teaching children about Bitcoin and Walker was trying to figure out a way to raise funds for Hope House. And then Derek DM’d him. So, in response he was like, well, no, I don’t want any sats, but what I do want is to support this amazing movement in El Salvador teaching children about Bitcoin. And that was the first flash stack. Carla and Walker put together a video.

We built a hashtag, Stacks for Bitcoin Beach, and we launched it. And to this day, I think that was the most successful flash stack. We raised 28 million sats, maybe 29 million sats. And the closest that we ever came to that was the flash stack that we did for Jonhangel and Tachira Homestead, where I think we raised 25 million sats in about an hour and a half. But we’ve raised sats to buy phones for children in South Africa, a project called Bitcoin Ekasi, because phones are an integral part of economics in South Africa. Like, getting a bank account is ridiculously hard. And phones and bitcoin work together really well. We did a flash stack for Boracay in the Philippines. It was a lot of fun. This one wasn’t exactly like a charitable donation. They just built this cool bitcoin presence on the island of Boracay, where they’ve onboarded hundreds of merchants. I think they have 300 merchants. As a Bitcoiner, you can go there right now and never touch Fiat from the time you land on the plane. So, we did a flash stack where recruiters that go and talk to businesses and try to Orange Pill them, get paid. The flash stack that we did, doubled the recruiters’ pay until the donation money ran out. And apparently that was an enormous success. A lot of these guys were making two or three times the money they would normally make in a week.

We also did a flash stack for 3D printers in Bitcoin Lake. Bitcoin Lake is a really interesting project. They’re trying to mine environmentally and clean up the lake because a lot of the community’s produced waste ends up in the water and a lot of that waste is things like used cooking oil, which you can use to fuel an old diesel generator. And then they mine bitcoin as well and have a school where they teach kids about decentralized technology like Bitcoin and 3D printing. We’ve done so many of these types of flash stacks that I’m starting to forget some of them.

BTC Freeborn:

There was also Stacks for Hodlonaut.  That wasn’t for adoption, but that was also a topic that hit home for a lot of Bitcoiners. I think that Stackchain as a culture, as a game on Twitter is very important, it’s fun, but it’s also having that conviction and energy transfer out into all parts of the globe. It’s such an important thing to highlight what other people think about and how other people are using bitcoin around the world.

Anthony vonStackChain:

Stackchain has raised the flag for a very specific kind of Bitcoiner that wants to stack sats and make an impact in the world. And I can definitively say that we are making an impact. Never discount the power that a few motivated Bitcoiners can have, especially considering the fact that we are using bitcoin. This is the power of Bitcoin – the power is in the network. So, it’s just like Stackchain, the stacks are the network, but the power of the network is the nodes, the people who are a part of and functioning in the network. Every stack matters, every Stackchainer matters. And this is ultimately what Stackchain is. If you try to define Stackchain by the technical aspect of how we stack and how we post our stacks and this and that, that’s not what it is. What it is, is Bitcoiners coming together to accomplish something. So, in the case of Stackchain, what we’re trying to accomplish is Have Fun Stacking Sats. But that same energy can be applied towards bitcoin adoption around the world and applied very successfully with results. And it’s beautiful to see. And I love each and every single one of you for having participated in any way.

BTC Freeborn:

What you’re saying is that Stackchain is going to lead us to hyper bitcoinization.

Anthony vonStackChain:

Stackchain continues to over deliver. And we’ve blown past every hurdle we expected to encounter.

BTC Freeborn:

I think that the direct link that we have over the internet and through Bitcoin is making these donations happen really quickly and it’s very powerful not only for the people who are receiving these donations, but for the people who are giving them.

So, to close it out – Thank you, Stackers. Thank you, all the people that donated to any of these efforts and campaigns that we’ve talked about and thank you, Anthony, for your time.

Anthony vonStackChain:

Thank you, Freeborn. Have fun Stacking SATS, everybody.

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Note from Stackchain Magazine: No Bitcoin (or inferior monies) were exchanged for this article. This Article is a transcription from Freeborn’s Spaces Entitle “What Stackchain Done Did” embedded below if you’d like to listen. Or you can ignore it if you want to even though we put it right there. Whatever, fine, be that way. At least consider giving Freeborn a follow on X @FreeBorn_BTC or shoot him some sats for his hard work at icefish2@primal.net or if you want shoot The King of Stackchain some sats as well you can do so at valitnikov@lnbits.sathoarder.com

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