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Lightning Network Capacity Now Over 10 BTC
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Lightning Network Capacity Now Over 10 BTC

The Lightning Network (LN) can now accept over 10 bitcoins’ worth of capacity on its mainnet implementation for the first time. Statistics from April 1 show that mainnet Lightning, now has capacity for 10.476 BTC  equivalent to over $70,000.

There have been over 500 new nodes in the last 10 days.

The main news released yesterday was that the Lighting Network on the mainnet passed 10BTC in total capacity.

In terms of service adoption of LN a new widget tool, LightningTip, was released to allow websites to easily accept Lightning payments.

Last week we reported that open source WordPress e-commerce platform wooCommerce also announced it had added LN functionality for both Bitcoin and Litecoin payments.

Lightning mark its debut for mainnet Bitcoin use. The first beta implementation in the form of Lightning Labs’ Lightning Daemon (lnd) was released to considerable acclaim, the startup also announcing a successful $2.5 million funding round, which included Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Now, with over 1500 nodes, of which 1126 are public, the protocol has even surpassed the node count of the altcoin which states its purpose as doing LN’s job: Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

While continuing to tout itself as a cheaper, faster version of Bitcoin, data confirms BCH is now less prevalent than Bitcoin Lightning Network nodes.

At the same time, advances in SegWit adoption for Bitcoin have brought previously high fees down to a fraction of values seen just weeks ago. Many popular consumer wallets, such as Blockchain.info, were suggesting fees of just 2 satoshis per byte at press time April 1.

Meanwhile, advances in usability might be reflected in market sentiment, with BTC/USD staying just above $7,000 at the time of writing.

coinmag

Cryptocurrency investor, researcher and writer

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