Stack Sats #35

Welcome to the 35th issue of Stack Sats.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,545 BTC (+6 BTC)

Channels: 78,429 (-270)

Nodes: 17,746 (+72)

Lightning Podcasts: 13,226 (+79)

Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 106.2 BTC (+1.5 BTC)

Wallet of Satoshi LN Payments: 8,667,188 (+170,343)

Nostr Daily Active Users: 7,181 (-364)

Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 6,788,224 sats this week (7,960,671 sats last week)

Stacker News users stacked 610,027 sats this week (749,498 sats last week)

Amboss Magma users stacked 671,401 sats this week (359,968 sats last week)

THNDR Games users received 67,598 LN payments this week (66,257 last week)

Fedi raised a $17 million Series A round to build a new “federated operating system”.

Stacker News launched a Nostr sub for users to discuss the latest Nostr developments.

Voltage integrated Lightning Terminal into their platform, enabling direct access to Loop, Pool, Faraday, LNC, and future Lightning Labs products.

Burak announced a proposal for a privacy-preserving L2 protocol as a complement to the Lightning Network during the BTC++ conference.

Atomic Finance crossed 21 BTC ($600k+ USD) invested in their DLCs.

Geyser hit another all-time high in fundraising during April, their 4th consecutive monthly ATH.

Lightning Labs released a new version of Lightning Terminal featuring “automagic fee management”.

OpenSats raised $10 million in funding to support open source Bitcoin and Nostr projects.

MicroStrategy announced a Lightning Rewards program for enterprise clients to reward employees with sats.

Bisq is working on a Lightning Network integration for their P2P Bitcoin exchange.

The Bitcoin Company launched the beta release of their web app.

River is working on building an Android app.

No new episodes this week.

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