Bitcoin Lightning Network Continues To Grow
Current Lightning Network public channel capacity is at 3,539 bitcoin, and it continues to grow over 30% annualized.The below is from a recent edition of the Deep Dive, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now.“Bitcoin itself cannot scale to have every single financial transaction in the world be broadcast to everyone and included in the block chain. There needs to be a secondary level of payment systems which is lighter weight and more efficient.” - Hal....
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The Bitcoin second layer payment protocol Lightning Network has been exponentially increasing its capacity during the past years. Since it was launched in 2018, the network’s capacity has gone from under 1,000 BTC to 1,800 BTC. The Lightning Network was first proposed in 2015 and operates with payment channels to allow users to send and […]
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The capacity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network has short-circuited over the last three months to circa 3,400 BTC capacity, after surging throughout 2021, according to Arcane Research. Following an exponential climb in capacity over 2022, the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network made a lackluster start to the new year. According to a report by Arcane Research, growth in the Lightning Network capacity, or the number of BTC locked up in channels, has stuttered. The Lightning Network surged from 1,000 to 3,000 BTC in just 8 months in 2021, striking the 3,000 BTC mark in mid-October. While the....