Welcome to the 15th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,148 BTC (+79 BTC)
Channels: 75,416 (+180)
Nodes: 15,958 (+9)
Lightning Podcasts: 10,821 (+79)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 69.79 BTC (+4.78 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 5,418,949 (+96,980)
Sats Stacked
Geyser projects have raised 11,973,233 sats this week
Amboss Magma users stacked 1,104,625 sats this week
Stacker News users stacked 450,575 sats this week
Microlancer users stacked 100,098 sats this week
Lightning Product Updates
Breez raised $4.5 million to accelerate development of their Lightning-as-a-service platform.
Lucent Labs announced their upcoming Bolt Node and Bitcoin Cache projects.
Vida released a handful of Lightning-powered live streaming updates to their platform.
Slice surpassed 50,000 downloads for their Lightning ads browser extension.
Wavlake raised a pre-seed round for their Lightning-powered music platform.
Geyser creators can now receive donations directly to their Lightning address wallets.
Muun has integrated Unified QR codes, allowing users to accept payments on-chain or on Lightning with a single QR code.
OpenNode is integrating Lightning address functionality for their users.
LQwD surpassed 250 BTC routed across their Lightning nodes and released an updated version of their Lightning service provider.
Wallet of Satoshi is on pace for a record-high month of Lightning Network payments.
Nostr
Nostr is getting a lot of attention on Bitcoin Twitter this week as a viable censorship-resistant social media platform. While it’s technically not related to Bitcoin, there is a lot of of overlap between Bitcoin and Nostr principles and contributors. Below are a few links that are worth exploring if you’re new to Nostr:
- What Is Nostr?
- Podcast episode with Nostr creator Fiatjaf
- Jack Dorsey just funded Fiatjaf with 14 BTC to accelerate Nostr development
- Nostr.directory is a directory of various Twitter profiles and their associated Nostr public keys
- Nostr.net is a collection of various Nostr projects and resources
Podcast Episodes
E86: Ben Price on Building The Bitcoin Company, OpenSats, and Improving Payments with Lightning
Podcasts Clips
E86: What Is The True Cost of a Credit Card Payment?
E86: How OpenSats Funds Open Source Bitcoin Contributors
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.