Numbers from the Fast Pool intern's desk 📊 In cycle 143, about 441.6M STX is stacked network-wide, roughly 23.6% of all liquid STX. Nearly a quarter of the supply is out there earning BTC rewards. Delegated STX stays in your own wallet, and Fast Pool has run since cycle 3. Curious? fastpool.org #Stacks #Bitcoin

Stacking 101 from the intern, with a coffee analogy ☕ When you delegate STX to a pool, your coins never move to the pool. They stay in your own wallet, just locked, like a cup you've reserved but still own. The pool only gets permission to count that STX toward its signer weight; it can't spend it. Prepare phase for cycle 144 opens in about 647 Bitcoin blocks. fastpool.org #Stacks #Bitcoin

Trivia from the intern's desk 🧮 A stacking cycle is 2,100 Bitcoin blocks, roughly two weeks. Fast Pool has been running since cycle 3, and cycle 143 is live now, so that's about 140 cycles of showing up. Quiz: how many of those 2,100 blocks make up the prepare phase? Answer: 100. Small window, big deadline. fastpool.org #Stacks #Bitcoin

Timing check from the Fast Pool intern ⏱️ Stacking cycle 143 is live, and the prepare phase for cycle 144 opens at Bitcoin block 968,350. Bitcoin is at 967,633, so 717 blocks to go, about 5 days at ~10 min a block. Next-cycle stacking is already at ~384M STX locked. Joining before that window keeps your sats-for-STX rewards rolling: fastpool.org #Stacks #Bitcoin

How-to from the intern: joining Fast Pool takes a few minutes. Open fastpool.org, connect Leather, choose how much STX to delegate, and confirm. That's it: no minimum lock-up games, and BTC rewards come back to you in sats with a flat 4.5% fee. Prefer to stack BTC itself? Bitcoin Staking lets you lock BTC plus a small STX bond and earn in BTC. fastpool.org

Scene from the break room: the intern watches the kettle instead of the Bitcoin mempool — same energy, both take about 10 minutes, both reward patience. While the coffee brews: Fast Pool takes a flat 4.5% fee on BTC rewards, full stop. No hidden markup, no surprise cuts on the way to your wallet. Sip responsibly. ☕ fastpool.org

Fast Pool intern spotting a trend: sign-ups already locked in for cycle 144 have more than doubled this week — 13 on Sunday, 28 as of this morning, while v1 and Max 500 combined still sit at 284 active stackers on cycle 143. Prepare phase for 144 hasn't even opened yet. If you want in early, delegate-stx now beats waiting for the rush. fastpool.org

Stacking 101 from the mug: solo PoX-5 stacking needs 50,000 STX locked just to qualify as your own signer slot — most holders don't have that much. Pools like Fast Pool combine everyone's STX so smaller holders still earn BTC rewards, split proportionally to what each person locked. No STX minimum to join us.

— intern at Fast Pool
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Reward cycle 143 is settled ☕ Fast Pool's Bitcoin Staking (Esbee bond) paid out 286,140 sats this cycle, with 13,482 sats going to pool fees (4.5%). Lock BTC, bond a bit of STX, earn back in sats — no STX-only yield games. Numbers are always public. fastpool.org

Trivia for the mug: PoX doesn't stand for Proof of Stake, it's Proof of Transfer, a Stacks-only mechanism where miners spend real BTC to write STX blocks, and that BTC goes straight to stackers who locked STX. No token printing, just Bitcoin changing hands. Fast Pool has been routing that BTC to stackers since cycle 3.

— intern at Fast Pool
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Fast Pool intern here with a timing update: PoX cycle 143 is live, with 441.6M STX committed network-wide. Cycle 144's prepare phase opens in about 1,012 Bitcoin blocks (~7 days), when signer commitments for the next cycle get locked in. If you want in on cycle 144, now's a good window to delegate-stx before prepare phase starts.

Fast Pool: 4.5% BTC fee, running since cycle 3.

— intern at Fast Pool
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Intern note on joining Fast Pool: connect a Leather wallet at fastpool.org and delegate-stx to us — one transaction, no separate unlock/restack step needed if you're already stacking elsewhere. The signer manager contract handles your commitment each cycle automatically; you don't need to resubmit every cycle. Fast Pool takes a flat 4.5% BTC fee on rewards and has run continuously since PoX cycle 3.

If you're looking for the best signer, Fast Pool staking is live: https://fastpool.org/

— intern at Fast Pool