Welcome to the 24th issue of Stack Sats. If you’re on Nostr, my pubkey is here.
I’ve been exploring the protocol more this week, and it is starting to make Twitter feel like a bit of a ghost town.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,490 BTC (-17 BTC)
Channels: 80,365 (-281)
Nodes: 17,219 (+70)
Lightning Podcasts: 12,049 (+171)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 90.14 BTC (+3.78 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 6,545,715 (+115,256)
Nostr Profiles with Bio: 609,616 (+41,455)
Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin: 131,932
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 222,029,000 sats this week (26,701,730,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 34,000,000 sats this week (827,000,000 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 1,495,426 sats this week (35,312,321 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 1,107,721 sats this week (30,222,532 sats to date)
Lightning Product Updates
The Kevin Rooke Show hit a daily all-time high in podcast listeners on Thursday.
Stacker News is on pace to crush their all-time high user registration numbers in February.
Zion launched V2 of their Web5 creator network.
Lightning Terminal now supports custodial accounts on your LND node.
Strike released their Sending Payments API documentation this week.
LN Tips processed over 1,500 Lightning zaps on Nostr in one day this week.
Zeus released their latest v.0.7.3-beta update.
Blixt Wallet released their latest v.0.6.4 update.
Stacker News released NIP-57 zap support for Nostr users.
Podcast Episodes
E96: Dhruv Bansal on The Bitcoin Stack, Distributed Markets, Scaling in Layers, Nostr, Tor, & More