Welcome to the 25th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,560 BTC (+70 BTC)
Channels: 80,718 (+353)
Nodes: 17,291 (+72)
Lightning Podcasts: 12,204 (+155)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 91.79 BTC (+1.65 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 6,695,967 (+150,252)
Nostr Profiles with Bio: 732,368 (+122,752)
Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin: 173,096 (+41,164)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 212,122,000 sats this week (26,913,852,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 13,000,000 sats this week (840,000,000 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 605,878 sats this week (35,918,199 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 344,857 sats this week (30,567,389 sats to date)
Lightning Product Updates
The Kevin Rooke Show hit another daily all-time high in podcast listeners today.
Voltage released Flow 2.0, a new Lightning Service Provider focused on Just-In-Time liquidity.
Blockstream has formalized their research team, which is focused on “advancing the platforms at the core of the Bitcoin ecosystem, tackling complex problems, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible”.
Impervious is working on combining P2P private group chats and a Nostr social feed in their Imp Chat mobile app.
Nostrica has a guest list of over 1,000 people for their upcoming Nostr event.
River has routed 1,500,000 Lightning payments through their Lightning nodes, up from 1,000,000 in October 2022.
LNMarkets hit a new all-time high in trading volume during February on their Lightning derivatives exchange.
Fountain has added NIP-05 Nostr support to their latest beta app build.
Mavensb0t, the original Bitcoin Wizard artist earned 668,500,000 sats from selling 1,337 Ordinal variations of their work via Lightning payments.
Dual funded channels on Lightning are almost ready. The Eclair and CLN implementations are doing cross-compatibility testing.
Keyan Kousha released Booger, a Nostr relay that can scale horizontally with minimal operational requirements.
Podcast Episodes
E97: David King on Google & Nostr’s Early Days, The Role of Lightning on Nostr, and Angel Investing
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