Welcome to the 14th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,069 BTC (-3 BTC)
Channels: 75,236 (-941)
Nodes: 15,949 (-3)
Lightning Podcasts: 10,742 (+93)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 65.01 BTC
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 5,321,969
Sats Stacked
Stacker News users stacked 374,900 sats this week
Amboss Magma users have stacked 22,534,534 sats to date
Geyser Fund projects have raised 587,184,656 sats to date
Lightning Product Updates
Strike and Bitnob partnered to bring instant Lightning remittances between the US and Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.
Tweetoshi has done over 200,000 transactions on their Lightning-native Twitter client.
Mash launched a Wix app for helping anyone stack sats on their Wix website.
Wallet of Satoshi is doing over 11,000 Lightning payments per day.
Stacker News has over 1,000 users who have each stacked over 1,000 sats on the platform.
Amboss Magma users deployed 11.23 BTC of liquidity in November, an all-time high.
Cashu is now available on LNBits.
Recommended Reading
River released a 35 page report on the future of Bitcoin mining.
Will Reeves shared an interesting Twitter thread on the Lightning Network and the future of payments.
Podcast Episodes
E84: Alex Busarov on Building Heatbit and How Home Heaters Could Distribute Bitcoin Mining Hashrate
E85: Albert Buu on Building NeutronPay, Payments in Vietnam, and Instant Lightning Remittances
Podcasts Clips
E73: Taro’s Impact on the Lightning Network
E73: Misconceptions About the Lightning Network & Web 3
E85: Why Vietnam is a Sleeping Giant for Bitcoin Adoption
Stack Sats
This week I added one new tool for stacking sats:
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.