Lightning isn't just for micro-payments anymore.
It’s becoming the next-gen rails for transactions of all sizes:
- Now routes $10, $100, even $1,000+ (no protocol upgrades needed)
- Businesses will soon move stablecoins at scale, not just sats
- Routing fees often fall below 0.05%—cheaper than Visa
- Payments settle instantly with no chargebacks or fraud windows
The future isn’t slow, fee-heavy, or reversible. It’s Lightning.
Picking Lightning node peers is like shaking hands at a conference.
You can connect with anyone, but some attendees have more valuable networks than others.
Look for these 3 traits that reliable Lightning peers always share:
- Well-connected — They’re linked to high-traffic nodes, not stranded on the edge
- Proven uptime — Their channels stay open and stable
- Historical reliability — Years of performance prove they’re worth trusting
Amboss reveals all of this on the Magma Marketplace—so you don’t have to guess.
You don’t need 100 channels.
You need just a few of the right handshakes. 🤝
#lightningnetwork #amboss
Are you ready to commit BTC to a Lightning routing node? ⚡️
Here’s 4 signs you should consider it:
- You’ve got at least 0.4 BTC (1+ is ideal for solid routing capacity)
- You want yield—but not from risky tokens, staking, or custodians
- You believe in self-custody while your capital still earns
- You want to support the global Bitcoin payment network and get paid for it
Sovereign yield isn’t just possible—it’s how Lightning grows.
#lightningnetwork
Maintain high quality channels with good peers. 👍
March LINER data is in:
Yields on the Lightning Network increased from 1.38% APY in February to 2.11% in March.
Low bitcoin transaction fees (on-chain) are making it easier to earn bitcoin from leasing lightning channels.
This is a special type of yield because it doesn't require sacrificing bitcoin custody...you can earn from the payment utility of bitcoin.
To learn more, read up on the LINER metric:
Bitcoin price dips intensify the need for additional liquidity on the Lightning Network since each payment moves more sats.
If you want to start earning BTC from your stack, create an offer on Magma for liquidity from your (established) Lightning node!
Reflex Customers:
The URL has been updated for the lightning risk management dashboard to
The Lightning Network produces yields as well as rapid payment infrastructure.
All liquidity purchases from the Magma Marketplace are reported within our statistics dashboard, revealing significant yields from Bitcoin held in self custody. To make payments work, there's a market for Bitcoin on Lightning!
#lightning #lightningnetwork
See the historical yields here:
Today we launched our new website, featuring live data from the nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea API.
You can now see the stats for the entire Nodestrich community at a glance, and it’s really impressive — 273 nodes with 6418 channels and 792 BTC total capacity.
This is all the work of individuals around the world empowering themselves by running nodes, opening channels, and building the peer-to-peer #Nostr circular economy.
If you haven’t joined us yet, you can start right now, even if you have no idea what you’re doing. In fact, that’s even better!
Very cool use of the API! Looking forward to its growth!
oh duh, they have APR right on the dash. Hey nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea Are there any good historical metrics on magma?
Yeah check the stats dashboard for Market Metrics.
LINER is what you want to be looking at!
Stablecoins coming to Lightning Network!
Understand a bit more about Lightning as well as the new opportunities.
https://youtu.be/piBqNGjWTpY?si=ZjDCenK_6pIvCU1Z
#lightning
You might be missing something.
What's being evaluated here is the ability to pay from *anywhere* in the decentralized network to *anywhere else* in a $100 amount.
Using a transportation network analogy, you can drive a car on 80% of transportation paths on average, but some are too narrow like bike paths and alleyways and some already have too many cars on them.
Brace yourselves for enterprise-grade decentralized payments!
The entire lightning network is extremely decentralized from hobbyists to Fortune 500s.
LN micropayments are possible universally (impossible for trad payments) while enterprises can instantly settle >$100k.
This simulation uses crowdsourced and randomized data to show how decentralized and performant the lightning is for users from hobbyists to enterprises.
Slices of the top network nodes are based on network nodes public capacity.
To create this max flow report, sources and destinations are selected randomly to perform exhaustive multipath payments.
The resulting performance for the entire network is an extremely conservative metric to motivate highly decentralized and efficient payments.
Learn more about Max Flow and why it's important here:
Your outie runs a lightning node
Your outie DCAs to self-custody
Your outie helps precoiners
The United States has 3.5 million miles of rivers and 25,000 miles are considered "waterways" (i.e. navigable by boat).
That's 0.7% navigability. Because of that statistic, should we say that the US river system has failed?
Keep in mind this is the network average of 14,000+ nodes. There are many nodes whose performance is much higher.
Think of it like a bunch of truck traffic jams throughout the city. At some point we need to build bigger highways to alleviate the congestion. More small roads won't necessarily help the situation and could make it worse.
Adding highways (bigger Bitcoin channels) is likely to help with distribution instead of centralization.
One thing to note is that the largest holders of Bitcoin are still individuals.