In May 2022, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
6,982 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In April 2022, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
6,483 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
Pierre Rochard announced three metrics related to Kraken's Lightning Integration on Twitter. In the first 3 weeks after launch:
5,343 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In March 2022, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that their wallet has now supported over 3,000,000 Lightning Network payments.
Moon's Founder and CEO Ken Kruger said on Episode 27 of The Kevin Rooke Show that 90% of Moon's payment volume occurs on the Lightning Network.
Moon offers users the ability to pay using either Coinbase or the Lightning Network, and is planning to launcj on-chain Bitcoin payments soon.
On Episode 26 of The Kevin Rooke Show, Zion CEO Justin Rezvani mentioned that Zion has processed over 120,000 transactions between creators and their fans since the platform launched in August 2021.
Justin also predicted that Zion would hit 1,000,000+ transactions processed by August 2022.
LN Markets announced on Twitter that their node has routed a record high 37 BTC worth of payments in February.
At the time of the tweet, the LN Markets node had a public capacity of 24.23 BTC, meaning that LN Markets is consistently routing more payment volume every month than their public routing capacity.
4,820 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In February 2022, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
LQwD published a press release announcing that their Lightning Network routing nodes have routed 10 BTC of payment volume since their first node was deployed 3 months ago, in late November 2021.
In addition, LQwD said their nodes are now connected to 127 other nodes through 130 payment channels.
CoinCorner's Technical Lead Zakk announced on Twitter that CoinCorner has processed 1,500 Lightning transactions in the last 30 days at an average send size of $50.
This means the value of all Lightning transaction made on CoinCorner this month is roughly $75,000, or nearly 2 BTC when the tweet was published.
LN Markets announced on Twitter that their Lightning Network node has routed over 300 BTC since inception, which represents $13.5M USD of Lightning payments using current prices.
This time last year, their node had routed less than 100 BTC of payment volume.
Fountain announced their January 2022 growth metrics in a blog post, which included:
In January 2022, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
On Episode 16 of The Kevin Rooke Show, Kevin mentioned a CoinDesk article citing 50,000 monthly active users and Jack clarified that since that article's publishing date (December 15, 2021), THNDR Games has grown by 10-20%.
On Episode 15 of The Kevin Rooke Show, CoinCorner CEO Danny Scott mentioned that 15-20% of CoinCorner's Checkout payments happen over the Lightning Network. Checkout is CoinCorner's product that allows merchants to accept payments in Bitcoin.
Stacker News launched in July 2021, and in 6 months has grown to:
Voltage, the premier provider of Bitcoin and Lightning node infrastructure, has closed a $6 Million seed round.
This funding round was led by Trammell Venture Partners with participation by Craft Ventures, GV, Stillmark, Cavalry Asset Management, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Fulgur Ventures, Tenzing.vc, and others.
A Fountain user tipped 502,377 sats to the Podcasting 2.0 show run by Adam Curry and Dave Jones. 502,377 sats is 1 sat higher than the previous all-time Boost record on Fountain.
Over 4,000 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
3,600 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In December 2021, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
A CoinDesk article mentioned that THNDR Games now has 50,000 monthly active users across their three mobile games.
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that Bitfinex had processed 150 BTC of Lightning deposits and withdrawals in the last 30 days.
This volume came from 5,000 different transactions made by 750 users.
This means the average Lightning transaction size on Bitfinex is roughly 3 million sats, or $1,438 when the tweet was published.
On Episode 3 of The Kevin Rooke Show, LNMarkets co-founder Romain Rouphael said LNMarkets has done over $300M of trading volume since their 2020 launch, and has doubled their userbase in the last 6 months.
On Episode 3 of The Kevin Rooke Show, LNMarkets co-founder Romain Rouphael said LNMarkets has seen 2,000 downloads of the LNMarkets app in its first month as part of the Umbrel App Store.
3,022 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In November 2021, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
2,607 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In October 2021, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
Umbrel raised $3 million in a seed round from OSS Capital, Naval Ravikant, Sahil Lavingia, Slow Ventures, Andreas Antonopoulos, Owen Gunden, Max Webster, Stephen Cole, Fulgur Ventures, Mimesis Capital, Huat Ventures, and other investors.
Umbrel also announced that over 13,000 people are running personal servers in their homes using Umbrel.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 2,000,000 Lightning Network payments.
2,067 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In September 2021, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
1,555 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In August 2021, Stacker News had the following user metrics:
Bitfniex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that 34% of all Bitcoin-related transactions on Bitfinex in the last 30 days were done on the Lightning Network.
In terms of transaction volume, 0.45% of all Bitcoin-related transactions were done on Lightning, while 98% were done on-chain.
990 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
In July 2021, the first month of operation for Stacker News, the site had the following user metrics:
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 1,500,000 Lightning Network payments.
246 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that Bitfinex processed 11 BTC of Lightning deposits in the last 24 hours.
These transactions were spread across 1,000 different transactions, ranging in size from 100 sats to 16.2 million sats.
In the same time frame, Bitfinex processed 2.6 BTC of Lightning withdrawals, making their total Lightning volume 13.7 BTC in the last day.
In the same time frame, Bitfinex also did 4,700 BTC of volume on-chain, and 50 BTC of volume using Liquid.
207 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
173 podcasts have been onboarded to the Lightning Network. These shows can receive instant, nearly-free payments and messages from listeners anywhere in the world through Lightning podcasting apps like Fountain.
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that Bitfinex has processed 10,000 Lightning transactions in the last 30 days.
These deposits and withdrawals had an average transaction size of 0.007 BTC, or 700,000 sats.
Combined, that means Bitfinex processed 70 BTC of transactions on the Lightning Network in 30 days.
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that Bitfinex has earned 230,000 sats, or $120 from routing fees on the Lightning Network.
Bitfinex operates 2 of the world's largest Lightning Network nodes.
In a follow-up tweet, Paolo said Bitfinex has also processed 6,000 deposits and withdrawals over the Lightning Network in the same time frame.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 1,000,000 Lightning payments.
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced on Twitter that Bitfinex has processed 12,500 Lightning transactions in the last 30 days. In addition, he said most of those transactions were Lightning deposits, rather than withdrawals.
In a follow-up tweet, Paolo said the average transaction size was 240,000 sats, meaning Bitfinex's total Lightning transaction volume for the month was 3,000,000,000 sats, or roughly 30 BTC.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 800,000 Lightning payments.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 700,000 Lightning payments.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 200,000 Lightning payments.
Wallet of Satoshi announced on Twitter that they have supported over 100,000 Lightning payments.
Wallet of Satoshi launched the beta version of their app to users all across Australia on the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin network launch.