Welcome to the 29th issue of Stack Sats.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,591 BTC (+42 BTC)

Channels: 79,883 (-62)

Nodes: 17,523 (+40)

Lightning Podcasts: 12,647 (+106)

Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 98.7 BTC (+0.88 BTC)

Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 7,487,749 (+196,513)

Nostr Daily Active Users: 8,244 (+53)

Sats Stacked

Fold users stacked 212,736,000 sats this week (27,783,365,000 sats to date)

Stacker News users stacked 1,424,296 sats this week (39,705,536 sats to date)

Amboss Magma users stacked 361,045 sats this week (32,869,879 sats to date)

Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 8,353,828 sats this week

Geyser projects have raised 1,000,000,000 sats to date

Lightning Product Updates

Ben Carman did a Nostr zap analysis and found that 95% of zaps and 91% of zap volume went to custodial LN wallets, with Wallet of Satoshi representing 50% of all payments and 67.5% of all volume.

Voltage has begun rolling out Surge to beta users, which is their latest product that offers better insights and alerts for node operators.

Fountain released v0.6.6 of their Lightning podcasting app on iOS and Android.

Kollider released their Kollider wallet, the first browser-based Lightning wallet with synthetic stablecoins.

LN Capital released Torq v19.1 with improvements to the dashboards and automation workflows on their Lightning node management software.

Nostrica (the first Nostr “Unconference”) was held in Uvita, Costa Rica this week and this thread recaps some of the highlights.

PlebBin launched a classifieds service for Bitcoiners without ads or KYC.

Podcast Episodes

No new episodes this week, but I’m working on a new content series this weekend.

Podcasts Clips

E102: Why Is Block Investing Their Bitcoin on the Lightning Network?

E102: What Role Will Hobbyist Node Operators Play on the Lightning Network?

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