Welcome to the 21st issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,417 BTC (+81 BTC)
Channels: 80,076 (+229)
Nodes: 17,055 (+39)
Lightning Podcasts: 11,417 (+132)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 81.94 BTC (+1.47 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 6,169,054 (+119,019)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 212,499,000 sats this week (26,045,118,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 13,000,000 sats this week (759,000,000 sats to date)
Microlancer users stacked 4,186,428 sats this week (45,753,230 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 498,971 sats this week (27,590,507 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 429,928 sats this week (31,588,066 sats to date)
Lightning Product Updates
Strike is now integrated with Fiserv, and has launched their public pilot with Clover PoS terminals.
Stacker News released Bounties, enabling anyone to create a sats-denominated bounty directly on their platform.
Bitfinex is averaging 10,000 LN deposits and withdrawals each month, with an average size of 2 million sats.
Kollider shared their vision for making a wallet that is simple, seamless, and incredibly easy to use.
Edward Snowden has set up a Nostr account.
Blockstream raised $125 million to expand their institutional Bitcoin mining services.
Stacker News users shared dozens of Bitcoin and Lightning projects that they’re working on.
Recommended Reading
Calle (from Episode 91) shared the story of how he built a Lightning payments app for over 10,000 users with two Raspberry Pis in his bedroom.
Podcast Episodes
E94: Morgen Rochard on Building Origin, Bitcoin Financial Planning, and Payment Regulations
Podcasts Clips
E93: Drivechain and the Side Effects of Bitcoin's Blocksize War
Stack Sats
I’m still working on my latest guide explaining how to Stack Sats on Mash.