Welcome to the 13th issue of Stack Sats.

The Lightning Network continues to see record-high application usage across the board.

Every day, millions of sats flow through podcasting apps, crowdfunding platforms, liquidity marketplaces, and dozens of other apps, and all signs point to increasing payment volumes.

Aside from the increasing adoption of Lightning apps, I continue to be impressed with how many brilliant builders are jumping right into this ecosystem in the depths of a brutal bear market to re-imagine the way money works on the internet.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,072 BTC (-22 BTC)

Channels: 76,177 (-71)

Nodes: 15,952 (-52)

Lightning Podcasts: 10,649 (+72)

Lightning Product Updates

Robosats did 21.21 BTC of volume on their Lightning-native P2P exchange in November. That’s more than their first 6 months of operation combined, and almost double their numbers from September.

LN Markets has routed over 700 BTC through their Lightning node.

ACINQ released Eclair 0.8.0, featuring channel aliases, dual funding, and ground work on blinded paths, onion messages, and BOLT 12 offers.

Stacker News hit an all-time high of 978 users spending sats on their platform in November.

Dozens of Bitcoin builders shared the progress they’re making on their Bitcoin projects on Stacker News.

LN+ users deployed over 70 BTC of Lightning liquidity on their platform in November, a big all-time high.

Super Testnet unveiled a new mobile-first coinjoin wallet powered by Nostr.

Recommended Reading

A collection of Lightning builders and researchers have started a research platform to enhance and preserve Lightning privacy.

Podcast Episodes

I didn't release any new episodes this week, but I’ve got 3 new ones lined up for next week.

Podcasts Clips

E72: Vijay Boyapati Shares a New Lightning Product Idea

Stack Sats

This week I made some more improvements to the Stack Sats site. Both the Spend Sats and Stash Sats pages now have clickable links that show a profile page for each wallet and their features.

All items on those pages also include a “Reviews” button linking to product reviews on Apollo.

I’m still working on my latest guide explaining how to Stack Sats on Mash and working on migrating my podcast content to Stack Sats.

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