Welcome to the 30th issue of Stack Sats.
Lightning Network Metrics
Public Capacity: 5,544 BTC (-47 BTC)
Channels: 79,512 (-371)
Nodes: 17,575 (+52)
Lightning Podcasts: 12,750 (+103)
Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 100.25 BTC (+1.55 BTC)
Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments: 7,701,574 (+213,825)
Nostr Daily Active Users: 6,386 (-1,858)
Sats Stacked
Fold users stacked 205,716,000 sats this week (27,989,081,000 sats to date)
Stacker News users stacked 568,235 sats this week (40,273,771 sats to date)
Amboss Magma users stacked 643,900 sats this week (33,513,779 sats to date)
Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 7,859,064 sats this week
Lightning Product Updates
Route blinding, a significant privacy improvement, has been added to the Lightning Network specification.
Stacker News announced plans to build a new Nostr client called Outer Space.
Robosats has hit a new all-time high in trading volume during March.
THNDR Games processed 300,000+ LN payments in March, up 50% from their all-time high of 201,000 in February.
Nodeless announced the beta launch of their Bitcoin merchant software.
Lotes launched a prototype of their “physical Lightning cash” project.
Lightning Bridge has integrated WebLN support for Alby and Kollider wallets.
Brian Hoffman released the Rust implementation of OpenBazaar 3.0.
BTC++ launched a website to highlight their upcoming Bitcoin conference focused on Layer-2 development in Austin, TX.
Fountain is the 2nd most popular podcasting app for Marty Bent’s show listeners, ahead of Spotify.
Recommended Reading
Tony Giorgio wrote a blog post titled “Embracing Nostr: My Journey from Skeptic to Advocate”.
A Stacker News user wrote a great beginners guide to using Robosats.
Podcast Episodes
This week I launched the first episode of a new content series called Stacking Sats.
SS1: How Joe Martin Stacked 800,000+ Sats on Fountain, Wavlake, Voltage, BTCPayServer, and Alby
I also released another episode from my show focused on Bitcoin builders.
E103: Pablo F7Z on Building Nostr Projects, Why Open Networks Win, and The Economics of Nostr
Podcasts Clips
No new podcast clips this week, I’ve got a big backlog of clips to create next week.