Welcome to the 19th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,347 BTC
Channels: 79,871
Nodes: 17,014
Lightning Podcasts: 11,189 (+90)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 78.21 BTC (+2.19 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 5,910,434 (+144,702)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 218,879,000 sats this week (25,610,250,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 51,000,000 sats this week (703,000,000 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 564,154 sats this week (26,386,985 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 353,687 sats this week (30,825,495 sats to date)
Microlancer users stacked 132,767 sats this week (41,467,972 sats to date)
Lightning Product Updates
Fountain released v0.6.0 of their podcasting app. This release introduces a new activity feed, the ability to fund your account with a bank card, and a handful of UX/UI upgrades.
Stacker News now allows users to delete their posts, alongside a few other product upgrades.
Lightning.Movie was announced on Stacker News this week, though some users had a hard time viewing movies.
LNCal introduced a number of new improvements to their Lightning calendar booking app.
Bisq released v1.9.9 of their P2P Bitcoin exchange.
LN Capital released Torq v0.16.3, a new update to their Lightning capital management software.
Shakepay users shook their phones 45,000,000 times in 2022, earning billions of sats along the way.
Tweetoshi released a new Explore page for their Lightning-native Twitter client.
Recommended Reading
Max Webster wrote a blog post called “Why I’m Betting Big on Nostr”
Podcast Episodes
E91: Calle on Open Source Software, Lightning Development, LNBits, Cashu, & More
Podcasts Clips
E75: Can Validity Rollups Help Scale Bitcoin?
E75: Are Validity Rollups & The Lightning Network Complementary?
E89: Cypherpunks, Cash, and Privacy on the Lightning Network
Stack Sats
This week I migrated all my podcast content over to Stack Sats. You can now explore episodes, transcripts, and highlights. I’ve also added real-time search to the apps, podcast, and clips section of the site.
I’m also still working on my latest guide explaining how to Stack Sats on Mash.