Welcome to the 20th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,336 BTC (-11 BTC)
Channels: 79,847 (-24)
Nodes: 17,016 (+2)
Lightning Podcasts: 11,285 (+96)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 80.47 BTC (+2.26 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 6,049,975 (+139,541)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 222,369,000 sats this week (25,832,619,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 43,000,000 sats this week (746,000,000 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 704,551 sats this week (27,091,536 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 332,643 sats this week (31,158,138 sats to date)
Microlancer users stacked 98,830 sats this week (41,566,802 sats to date)
Lightning Product Updates
Satlantis built a Minecraft server with a full bitcoin economy including ASICs, lightning withdraws/deposits, and hashrate pooling with your clan.
Wavlake released a new player and studio for their Lightning-powered music platform.
Jack Dorsey has offered a 120,000,000 sat bounty for the best Nostr-based GitHub replacement.
Emon released a Lightning-powered encrypted messaging platform on Nostr.
Blixt Wallet v0.6.2 was released this week.
Cash App released their full Lightning Network experience to their customers.
Fold announced their API offering to let anyone integrate Bitcoin rewards within their app.
Faerie AI launched a modified version of ChatGPT with Lightning payments built in.
Nutstash launched a Cashu wallet for your browser that lets you connect to multiple Cashu mints.
Recommended Reading
Casey Rodarmor’s Bitcoin-native NFTs (called Inscriptions) are ready for Bitcoin mainnet.
Podcast Episodes
E92: John Carvalho on Synonym, Blocktank, Bitkit, Pear Credit, Slashtags, and Hyper-Bitcoinization
E93: Paul Sztorc on Drivechain (BIP 300/301), Bitcoin Sidechains, and Building Layer Two Labs
Maikuro built an AI-powered search engine specifically for my show. It scans the audio of every episode of the Kevin Rooke Show and presents results based on your search input.
Podcasts Clips
E92: Combatting Regulations on the Lightning Network
Stack Sats
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