⚡️ The Lightning Network is crucial to Bitcoin’s scalability, but traditional metrics like capacity & node count offer an incomplete picture of its true potential. The key to understanding network health? Max Flow.
🔑 Max Flow measures how much value can reliably flow through the network, considering available liquidity. For decades, this concept has optimized industries like telecommunications, logistics, and transportation. Now, it’s doing the same for the Lightning Network.
📊 While traditional metrics focus on nodes or channels, Max Flow highlights payment reliability—the true measure of network performance. As the graphic shows, payment reliability changes with payment size. Lightning is particularly suited for micropayments today.
💡 By focusing on Max Flow, we move beyond capacity metrics and gain deeper insight into how well the network is routing payments. This gives a much clearer view of Lightning’s performance.
💸 One of the most exciting aspects of Max Flow? As Bitcoin’s price rises, the capacity for larger transactions on Lightning increases without any infrastructure changes. A $10K payment when BTC is $100K is just as easy as a $5K payment when BTC was $50K.
🔍 Instead of focusing on how many nodes exist, the question becomes: how well is liquidity being used? Max Flow helps identify where improvements can be made to ensure Bitcoin payments flow efficiently, no matter the size.
🚀 Max Flow isn’t just another metric—it’s the future of Lightning Network optimization. Investors and node operators who adopt this metric now will be well-positioned to scale the network and capitalize on its potential. 🌐
💡 Learn more about how Max Flow is revolutionizing the way we assess the Lightning Network: https://cryptoslate.com/the-metric-that-matters-for-the-lightning-network/
If you're looking for an opportunity work on the cutting edge of the Lightning Network, here's a golden opportunity.
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Fees paid by lightning network operators have drastically decreased over the past year (anomaly notwithstanding).
While force closes tend to get the most attention, channel opens pay more fees to miners in total than all channel closes.
Lightning channels are clearly solving a problem because the urgency to start new lightning channels is greater than the urgency to close them.
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#lightningnetwork #statistics #bitcoin
Probe success or failure to the top 1000 nodes using the different pathfinding algorithms from different source nodes.
Outside of that, execution time and path cost.
Thanks for sharing!! We hadn't seen this before
Payment reliability is the most important metric for the Lightning Network as a payment system.
We teamed up with @HelloStillmark to deliver research that leverages machine learning to bring enterprise payment reliability to the Lightning Network.
Our New Research: "Channel Balance Interpolation in the Lightning Network via Machine Learning" decimates the tired and risky approach of probing to find a reliable payment route.
Combining crowdsourced data and machine learning means reliable payments on LN with less spam.
We're applying this methodology to a new pathfinding-as-a-service feature that is showing extremely promising early results.
We're looking for exchanges, rewards programs, or play-to-earn with high outbound payment volume to put our pathfinding service to a real-world test.
To learn more about our research or to join us as part of our payment operations solution, be sure to visit: https://rpo.dev/pathfinding
This research would not be possible without our collaborators:
@HelloStillmark
@vsingh_5
@emaros96
And peer reviewers:
@renepickhardt
Dr. Christian Kummerle
@alexbosworth
Our pathfinding performance research begins today!
Using our machine learning predictions, participants will be able to generate a comparison between their node's default pathfinding and our enhanced pathfinding.
These results will be used to further improve payment reliability on the Lightning Network and deliver more research about decentralized payment channel networks.
If you'd like to participate in our benchmark research and access our advancements in pathfinding and payment reliability, be sure to sign up here:
🚨NEW VIDEO🚨
Lightning Network: The Economics of Bitcoin's Global Payment Rails
Nik Bhatia of The Bitcoin Layer is joined by nostr:nprofile1qqsz4uq7p44arw0mh83agv2h6ezep7e8mnau403g0p99svhp00hms7cprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezu6rpdej8j6n4de4hjtnrdaksz8thwden5te0vakx7cnpdskhyetvv9ujucm9wd3juarjv9jx2qfzwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkzmfdw3jhxapww4czuunpd9k8wcte9eshququcjzc3 founder nostr:nprofile1qqsrjxqeute0zwusetrjp9qeadt5aa7q686wsxr8lsjvg73uuh52yjqt2yvlj to discuss LN contributing to bitcoin as a global monetary network, fascinating statistics about the usage of lightning, and LN's tradeoffs.
Are you looking for a way to bring Bitcoin and Lightning to the world?
Here's the opportunity:
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We've fixed an edge case that was preventing unlocking the vault after login. Thanks for your help identifying the issue!
support@amboss.tech
That's currently the way it works. Each lightning payment uses a swap that the MiBanco user pays.
Your account cannot be recovered if you lose your password!
Are you sure you typed it in correctly?
Be sure to use the Refresh button within the app itself. Creating an automatic update is an important next step for the app, but it's not here yet.
It's a payment detail handler based on Lightning Address.
It can generate a lightning invoice, but it can also do on-chain addresses in multiple currencies (e.g. Liquid, Tether, Bitcoin, etc)
As a self custody wallet, this isn't required.
As we look towards adding more functionality throughout the beta, KYC may be required to access certain functions, but not for the wallet itself.
ICYMI: Yesterday we announced MiBanco.app closed beta, a wallet that's optimized for onboarding.
Features:
-No app download
-No bank required
-Lightning Address
-Self-custodial
First 100 referral code = bitcoin
https://x.com/ambosstech/status/1817220766318084236?t=Sn63IGdnMfZt79mUhZW20g&s=19
Lightning node runners are most active when transaction fees are low, so they can earn a high ROI for each useful channel they create.
We're seeing Magma activity pick up, fixing payment issues with decentralized liquidity and delivering ROI for good node operators.
#lightning #noderunners #plebnet #nodestriches
Lightning Network capacity has shown sustained, aggressive growth since April IN BITCOIN TERMS.
In USD terms, the network has ranged around a capacity of $300M to $360M since April while the Bitcoin price has taken a tumble.
