Welcome to the 38th issue of Stack Sats.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,515 BTC (+65 BTC)

Channels: 76,894 (+50)

Nodes: 17,959 (+98)

Lightning Podcasts: 13,475 (+91)

Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 108.8 BTC (+1.26 BTC)

Wallet of Satoshi LN Payments: 9,093,107 (+147,296)

Nostr Daily Active Users: 7,035 (-16)

Sats Stacked

Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 9,223,143 sats this week (10,010,700 sats last week)

Stacker News users stacked 574,721 sats this week (750,187 sats last week)

Amboss Magma users stacked 904,305 sats this week (875,809 sats last week)

THNDR Games users received 62,281 LN payments this week (58,314 last week)

Bitcoin Product Updates

Fedi’s alpha release is now available for testing.

Mutiny launched the signet version of their Lightning node in a browser.

Bull Bitcoin is seeing Lightning payment success rates between 95% to 100%, which is up from 75% in October 2022.

Umbrel has begun teasing a “next chapter” of their business, without much additional context.

Impervious is planning an early summer release of Imp Chat on mobile as a P2P WhatsApp competitor built on Nostr.

River implemented LNURL support for their mobile wallet.

Bitrefill integrated Lightning Login to their app this week.

Recommended Reading

Burak wrote a blog post introducing Ark, a second-layer protocol for making cheap, anonymous, off-chain Bitcoin payments.

BitMEX Research wrote a blog post titled “Lightning Payments – When Are They Too Small To Secure?”.

Podcast Episodes

E108: Maxim Orlovsky on Building RGB, Standards for BTC & LN, and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

Podcasts Clips

E108: What Is The RGB Protocol?

E108: Why Are Standards Important for Bitcoin & Lightning?

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