Welcome to the 39th issue of Stack Sats.

Lightning Network Metrics

Public Capacity: 5,493 BTC (-22 BTC)

Channels: 76,663 (-231)

Nodes: 17,994 (+35)

Lightning Podcasts: 13,556 (+81)

Amboss Magma Liquidity Deployed: 109.95 BTC (+1.15 BTC)

Wallet of Satoshi LN Payments: 9,251,067 (+157,960)

Nostr Daily Active Users: 6,651 (-384)

Sats Stacked

Value 4 Value podcasts stacked 11,261,569 sats this week (9,223,143 sats last week)

Stacker News users stacked 1,631,764 sats this week (574,721 sats last week)

Amboss Magma users stacked 855,938 sats this week (904,305 sats last week)

THNDR Games users received 47,327 LN payments this week (62,281 last week)

Bitcoin Product Updates

Fountain released v0.7.0 of their Lightning podcasting app with improvements to their podcast library, transcription offerings, and other performance upgrades.

Stacker News released a standalone PWA along with the ability to subscribe to individual posts and comments.

Umbrel introduced Umbrel Home, a home server that puts your data back in your control.

Satimoto enables anyone to fund a wallet and start charging their electric vehicle in 60 seconds without giving up any personal information or credit cards.

Bitrefill now lists the Lightning Network as their first payment option, previously it was their second option.

Coinfinity is opening access to their Lightning beta, allowing users to make Bitcoin purchases via LN.

River has launched the ability to auto-withdraw funds to self-custody on their Bitcoin exchange app.

Pnkfrg Studios teased the launch of their upcoming Lightning-powered game, which will go live on June 5th.

Recommended Reading

Voltage is partnering with Google Cloud to expand their hosting providers and locations. This article may be one of the first mentions of the Lightning Network by a major tech company.

Podcast Episodes

No podcast episodes this week, got a few lined up for next week.