Welcome to the 28th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,549 BTC (+30 BTC)
Channels: 79,945 (-54)
Nodes: 17,483 (+57)
Lightning Podcasts: 12,541 (+103)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 97.82 BTC (+2.30 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 7,291,236 (+204,313)
Nostr Daily Active Users: 8,191 (-700)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 216,280,000 sats this week (27,570,629,000 sats to date)
Geyser projects have raised 1,000,000,000 sats to date
Stacker News users stacked 937,854 sats this week (38,281,240 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 611,494 sats this week (32,508,834 sats to date)
Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 7,671,635 sats this week
Lightning Product Updates
Ben Arc from LNBits built a DIY Nostr signing device.
Bitcoin Miner, a mobile game built by Fumb Games, surpassed 1,000,000 downloads to date.
Taproot Wizards “Wizards School” donated $20,000 to the Human Rights Foundation via 5,800 Lightning Network payments.
Kollider launched Kollider Relay, the first subscription-based paid Nostr relay.
Casey Rodarmor’s Ordinals inscription explorer is now live on the Umbrel App Store.
Wolf has accepted 8 teams into their first-ever Lightning accelerator cohort.
Block has decided on “Bitkey” as the name for their upcoming Bitcoin signing device.
Nodeless launched a Lightning Address, NIP-05 Identifier and Paywalled Email in one address.
Recommended Reading
Gigi wrote a blog post on Lightning Network payment splits titled “Lightning Prisms”.
Podcast Episodes
E100: Oscar Merry on Fountain's Evolution, Nostr, Value 4 Value, and Creator Monetization
E101: Andrew Begin on Building Galoy, Bitcoin Communities, and Enterprise Lightning Adoption
E102: Nick Slaney on Building C= and Block’s Focus on Growing Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Podcasts Clips
E98: How Big Is Nostr's Addressable Market?