A Bitcoin Lightning Network képessége 5,000 BTC-t ér el

Bear markets are for constructing out capability on the layer-2 Lightning Network. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and sluggish worth motion, the Lightning Network, the layer-2 funds answer fo Bitcoin (BTC), tovább virágzik.

The Bitcoin Lightning Network reached a milestone capability of 5,000 BTC ($96 million). In impact, increasingly more Bitcoin is being launched to Lightning Network cost channels worldwide, as Bitcoiners proceed to assist the expansion of the community.

The Lightning Network permits customers to ship Bitcoin (or satoshis, the smallest quantity of a Bitcoin) to ship or obtain cash sooner and with decrease charges. The extra capability on the community, the extra liquidity is readily available. As a outcome, customers can expertise sooner cost speeds and probably bigger transaction volumes. 

First created in 2018, the Lighting Network has come underneath hearth not too long ago. Bitcoin influencers comparable to Udi Wertheimer have tárgyalt the community’s “failure,” claiming that nobody használ the community. Nonetheless, the community júniusban elérte a 4,000 BTC kapacitást and over the previous 4 years, it has turn out to be a dependable cost community and is fashionable in El Salvador, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar:

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Nourou, a Bitcoin Szenegál, elmagyarázza, miért the LN is so necessary. He advised Cointelegraph, “In Senegal, we have an economy of 50 FCFA. That is to say that the Senegalese of the working and proletarian class, who represent the majority of the population, buy, for their breakfast, 50 FCFA (0.07€) of milk, sugar, coffee, water, and many other basic products.”

„A mikrotranzakciók a mi gazdasági valóságunk. Ahhoz, hogy a Bitcoin az elkövetkező években szabványtá váljon, és gazdaságainkban a villámhálózatnak elegendő kapacitással kell rendelkeznie ahhoz, hogy támogassa ezeket a mikrotranzakciókat.

Nicolas Burtey, CEO at Galoy, was one of many first to rejoice the 5,000 Bitcoin achievement. Burtey advised Cointelegraph that the adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador was the tipping level for the Lightning Network. This is the place all metrics actually began to take off.” He joked, “The invoice ought to have really been referred to as the Lightning Law!”

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— Nicolas Burtey ⚡️⚡️ (@nicolasburtey) Október 3, 2022

Burtey continued, explaining that whereas the 5,000 BTC metric is necessary, “Payment velocity per channel is growing at an even faster rate. It’s a more meaningful metric, but only node operators can see it, so it’s not so prominent in the media.”

The Lightning Network, as soon as an area for hobbyist Bitcoin fanatics, now appeals to giant companies. MicroStrategy is most felveszünk egy Bitcoin Lightning szoftvermérnököt. MicroStrategy is the biggest holder of Bitcoin amongst publicly traded firms, with 130,000 XNUMX BTC a mérlegében. 

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Elsewhere, Strike, a Bitcoin Lightning firm headed by Jack Mallers, emelt $80 million to “revolutionize payments” for retailers. Mallers and Strike spearheaded El Salvador’s Bitcoin bevezetési tervek 2021-ben.

For Nourou, who’s internet hosting Dakar Bitcoin Days in December, the primary main Bitcoin convention in Senegal, the 5,000 BTC milestone is monumental:  “An increase in BTCs blocked in the network and the number of channels opened in parallel is a further step towards the democratization of Bitcoin transactions in the world.”