Today is a new record in terms of volumes transferred.
The last 24 hours of #LNBIG (2025-12-10):
Amount transactions: 71425
The sum of transfered BTC: 426.12361997
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 44131 sats
Percentile 50%: 123295 sats
Percentile 75%: 340702 sats
Percentile 95%: 2000175 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 8056202 sat (0.08056202 BTC)
#LightningNetwork #Stats
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG (2024-11-09):
Amount transactions: 28872
The sum of transfered BTC: 244.09300409
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 40002 sats
Percentile 50%: 127485 sats
Percentile 75%: 331288 sats
Percentile 95%: 2560102 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 8900349 sat (0.08900349 BTC)
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork #Stats
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG (2025-11-09):
Amount transactions: 14889
The sum of transfered BTC: 157.36706758
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 31670 sats
Percentile 50%: 119119 sats
Percentile 75%: 461294 sats
Percentile 95%: 9501678 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 7211900 sat (0.072119 BTC)
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork #Lightning #Stats
2025-11-05, #LNBiG #Stats
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG:
Amount transactions: 17724
The sum of transfered BTC: 144.77642968
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 20009 sats
Percentile 50%: 97507 sats
Percentile 75%: 320121 sats
Percentile 95%: 2233562 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 6590212 sat (0.06590212 BTC)
#LightningNetwork
Check out this thread of my thoughts on where the main liquidity flows in the Bitcoin Lightning Network and how big earnings come from transaction fees.
Interestingly, if you look at the fees charged by Binance on all other nodes, you’ll see that their outgoing fees are almost zero. With such low fees, it still turns out that all the liquidity flows from me, for example, to them at Binance, and hardly comes back. And if it does, it quickly flows right back to Binance. However, it seems that Binance is becoming the perfect routing node for third-party nodes. It’s advantageous to connect to Binance in order to send payments elsewhere, since the outgoing fees from the Binance node to all channels are zero. (But it should be noted that due to whitelists, Binance has a very limited number of nodes that can open a channel to them.) Thus, it seems that Binance is signaling to all other nodes that they want to offload liquidity in their channels and are willing to send payments further for no fee. Yet, this still isn’t happening. Apparently, all the channels on Binance’s side are filled with liquidity that’s accumulating with them.
In other words, to sum it up, Binance is a huge vacuum cleaner for Lightning Network liquidity among all the Lightning nodes I know of.
There's an interesting situation here. In this scenario, the more liquidity you have, the greater the earnings because you have to take on-chain #Bitcoin and use it to open new channels on Binance. After a short time, a flow of liquidity from other nodes heads into these channels, as I mentioned earlier; it's either private channels or the Boltz service leading the way. This way, liquidity gets pushed into the #Binance and #OKX exchanges, while lower-quality liquidity, like that from private channels, flows in.
Of course, you can write scripts that will close such private channels because it's unlikely the flow will go the other way. The freed-up liquidity can then be used on-chain again to open channels on these two exchanges, again and again. However, if you don't close the channels that injected liquidity to send on to these two exchanges, you'll need to add more on-chain Bitcoin to your nodes and open channels again.
You also need to keep in mind that Binance has #whitelist nodes by default that are allowed to open channels with them. At one point, they added a couple of my nodes, so I can open a channel with them. However, most nodes don’t have the ability to open a channel on Binance, so they have to connect to intermediaries like me and open channels with me to send payments to Binance.
Everything mentioned above is indeed the main reason for the increased volume over the past day and such high earnings on fees.
#LightningNetwork #LN #fees
Claude Code, a console tool, is extremely helpful when it comes to writing processing statistics based on certain criteria, and now all the tedious work can be handed over to it, and it writes everything very well. It might not get it right on the first try, but after a few iterations, it produces very good code. For example, with its help, I wrote and refined the code for setting automatic commissions, which is currently working for me. I also created tools for displaying statistics on the console to track incoming and outgoing flows in order to identify trends. This is primarily needed for myself to understand how to improve commission earnings.
So, it turns out that the main huge flow of funds is going to the exchanges Binance and OKX, and it could also be going to the Kraken exchange, but they have closed the option for opening incoming channels.
Indirectly generating income is the top node Boltz, which is the service for exchanging Bitcoin on-chain to Lightning and Lightning to on-chain.
Also, my share of local balance for private channels has grown significantly. So I can assume the following scenarios for why this is happening.
Someone is opening private channels to me and paying on Binance. This is probably done because Binance by default has whitelists for nodes that can open incoming channels to them, while other nodes in the network cannot open those channels on Binance. They only have the option to work through intermediary nodes, including mine. But that's not the main flow; otherwise, I would see private nodes in the top indirectly generating income. Well, Boltz is at the top.
So it seems the main scenario is that people are funding their accounts on Binance through the Bitcoin Lightning Network, using either wallets integrated with Boltz, where you can pay #Lightning invoices through Bitcoin on-chain, or directly using the #Boltz service since they have a website. They pay Lightning invoices issued by the #Binance exchange, settling with on-chain Bitcoin. Why this is happening, you can guess for yourself. Maybe it's done for privacy because on-chain Bitcoin is easily analyzed, and the Binance exchange can ask various inconvenient questions for every incoming Bitcoin on-chain transaction, while Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions have no connection to Bitcoin on-chain transactions since all payments come only from the nearest channels. And where they came from, there's no information due to the privacy of #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork
#LNBiG #Stats #OKX #privacy #LN
Actually, I understand a bit more about what's happening and why it's happening. Just yesterday, I opened new channels on the Binance and OKX exchanges because all channels on these two nodes get drained really quickly. I even created new console statistics commands using AI tools that allow me to track which nodes are generating income, meaning the nodes that are receiving the financial flow. It's from outgoing payments that I earn through commissions, and I can track the indirect nodes that generate income, meaning where the financial flow is coming from. Incoming payments don't bring direct income, but they do generate income on the exit where they are redirected. So it's also important to consider indirectly incoming nodes that generate income.
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG (2025-11-02):
Amount transactions: 19259
The sum of transfered BTC: 118.86707353
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 11781 sats
Percentile 50%: 78254 sats
Percentile 75%: 231757 sats
Percentile 95%: 1281921 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 2551270 sat (0.0255127 BTC)
#LNBiG #Stats #LightningNetwork #WtF
It turns out this wasn't the best day. Today I'm publishing new statistics for the current day.
The last 24 hours of #LNBiG (2025-10-31):
Amount transactions: 18919
The sum of transfered BTC: 84.75279582
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 5005 sats
Percentile 50%: 40000 sats
Percentile 75%: 160000 sats
Percentile 95%: 1280002 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 2161765 sat (0.02161765 BTC)
#LightningNetwork #LN #Stats
These figures are record-breaking; I don’t recall ever having such a payment volume before. At the moment I have 500 ppm + 1 sat base fee...
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork #Stats
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG (2025-08-27):
Amount transactions: 2921
The sum of transfered BTC: 63.89620476
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 9134 sats
Percentile 50%: 30114 sats
Percentile 75%: 160083 sats
Percentile 95%: 15206188 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 1212933 sat (0.01212933 BTC)
#LNBiG #Stats #LightningNetwork
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG:
Amount transactions: 3187
The sum of transfered BTC: 48.07892988
Percentile 0%: 2 sats
Percentile 25%: 21438 sats
Percentile 50%: 133834 sats
Percentile 75%: 603353 sats
Percentile 95%: 15175629 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 1234123 sat (0.01234123 BTC)
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork
In short, over the past day, I managed to earn approximately 1,500 dollars in satoshis from commissions and 2,500 dollars from selling channels. The sale of channels took about 10-12 bitcoins in liquidity. This is all in the last day. Currently, the amount on the balance of all the lightning channels on my side is 183 BTC.
A few days ago, I reduced the fees on all channels to 500 ppm. Also, in recent days, I've noticed a large number of channels being bought through the web service (for example, in the last two days about 14-15 channels were bought daily, whereas a few weeks ago, on average, 5-6 channels were bought). This might have been influenced by the fact that previously, channel openings could only occur for anchor channels, but I recently removed this restriction, and now Static Remote type channels also work for opening channels.
I also have to add liquidity to the nodes because such active channel purchases almost every day exhaust the funds that I additionally deposit.
Recently, I have been actively closing channels based on the criterion that if they haven't had at least one transaction in either direction in the last seven days. I haven't done this for more than a week, but the funds that were previously freed I moved to cold storage. Now I almost have to fund the nodes every day to meet the demand for opening channels.
Just from the last 14-15 channels that were opened daily, I was able to earn about 2.4 million satoshis, which is roughly equivalent to around 2,500 dollars.
#LNBiG #Stats #LightningNetwork #LN
The last 24 hours of LNBϟG (2025-06-27):
Amount transactions: 7322
The sum of transfered BTC: 63.49162348
Percentile 0%: 2 sats
Percentile 25%: 65108 sats
Percentile 50%: 209711 sats
Percentile 75%: 817444 sats
Percentile 95%: 2578713 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 1442110 sat (0.0144211 BTC)
#LNBiG #Stats