Welcome to the 16th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,122 BTC (-26 BTC)
Channels: 75,679 (+263)
Nodes: 15,962 (+4)
Lightning Podcasts: 10,884 (+63)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 71.42 BTC (+1.63 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 5,515,241 (+96,292)
Sats Stacked
Geyser projects have raised 18,677,941 sats this week (+6,704,708 sats)
Amboss Magma users stacked 672,804 sats this week (-431,821 sats)
Stacker News users stacked 509,403 sats this week (+58,828 sats)
Microlancer users stacked 101,954 sats this week (+1,856 sats)
Lightning Product Updates
Stacker News released a new referral program so anyone can stack sats for inviting new users onto the platform.
Mash rolled out a handful of new Lightning monetization features and customizations.
Amboss saw a 25% jump in liquidity deployed on their Magma marketplace in the last 30 days.
Inscriptions, a Bitcoin-native NFT project by Casey Rodarmor, is ready for testing.
Layer 2 Labs raised $3 million to supercharge Bitcoin’s second layer ecosystem.
The Human Rights Foundation awarded $325K in new Bitcoin grants.
An LNURL-auth Wordpress extension was launched this week.
Damus is working on ways to incentivize people to run relays using Lightning tipping.
Recommended Reading
Podcast Episodes
E87: Caitlin Long on Custodia and How Banks Will Interact with Bitcoin, Stablecoins, and Lightning
E88: Will Reeves on Building Fold, Bitcoin Entrepreneurs, and the Lightning Network's Evolution
Podcasts Clips
E87: Hal Finney's Vision for Bitcoin Banks
E87: How Will Banks Use the Lightning Network?
E88: The History of Bitcoin Venture Capital
E88: Why Cheap and Instant Lightning Payments Are Not Enough
Stack 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.
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