Stack Sats #34

Welcome to the 34th issue of Stack Sats.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,539 BTC (-8 BTC)

Channels: 78,699 (-161)

Nodes: 17,674 (+48)

Lightning Podcasts: 13,147 (+105)

Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 104.7 BTC (+0.93 BTC)

Wallet of Satoshi LN Payments: 8,496,845 (+162,089)

Nostr Daily Active Users: 7,545 (-95)

Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 7,960,671 sats this week (6,729,726 sats last week)

Stacker News users stacked 749,498 sats this week (751,440 sats last week)

Amboss Magma users stacked 359,968 sats this week (717,006 sats last week)

THNDR Games users received 66,257 LN payments this week (70,146 last week)

Mash launched sats-based polls and races. I set one up here, enabling anyone to vote on their favorite sat-stacking apps.

Lightning Labs released LND v0.16.1 with a handful of new features and improvements.

Amboss raised $4M USD to optimize the Lightning Network as the financial system of the future.

Atomic Finance released their open beta this week.

The Bitcoin Company is considering building a KYC-free BTC onramp to complement their offramp.

Lightning Labs released a new version of litd, with automated fee management and custodial accounts.

Fold’s Bill Pay integration with PayPal is back, allowing Spin+ subscribers to get 1% of Bitcoin back on all their bills.

Super Testnet released Swap Service, a nostr orderbook for submarine swaps and earning yield on bitcoin.

THNDR Games now offers users the ability to stack sats to their self-custodial Phoenix Android wallet.

Lightning Bridge has integrated WebLN to enable smoother Bitcoin swaps in their product.

Orange Pill App plans to allow users to sell tickets to events on the Lightning Network.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said that paying for AI services with sats is the most obvious Lightning Network use case.

No new episodes this week.

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