🗞️ Key takeaways from the bitcoin lightning report by Fidelity Digital Assets and nostr:npub15klkdfx9sh3y096a5jf895rcvkmkzvly2fm9dgxq6huqhp9576jsav4m73:
⚡️Businesses are scaling with Lightning. Adoption surged in 2024 and is expected to continue growing in 2025.
⚡️Larger, more efficient payment channels are replacing smaller, outdated ones, improving network reliability.
⚡️Payment success rates are rising with larger channels making Lightning payments more dependable.
⚡️Transaction fees can be as low as 0% and payments settle in less than half a second for optimized users.
⚡️The Lightning Network is delivering on its promise proving to be the most effecient way to transact in crypto.
⚡️ I know I’ve said it before, but the mempool is empty, thus it’s the best time to open and manage bitcoin lightning channels. Check out our liquidity swaps and pool to ensure you get rewarded for opening channels. 💪
Just in case it's a language barrier issue:
🇬🇧 Bitcoin isn't crypto
🇫🇷 Bitcoin n'est pas une crypto
🇩🇪 Bitcoin ist keine Krypto
🇪🇸 Bitcoin no es cripto
🇮🇹 Bitcoin non è una cripto
🇨🇳 比特币不是加密货币
🇷🇺 Биткойн — это не криптовалюта
🇯🇵 ビットコインは暗号通貨ではありません
🇰🇷 비트코인은 암호화폐가 아닙니다
🇮🇳 बिटकॉइन क्रिप्टो नहीं है
🇧🇷 Bitcoin não é uma cripto
🇹🇷 Bitcoin kripto değildir
🇸🇦 بيتكوين ليست عملة مشفرة
🇭🇺 A Bitcoin nem kriptovaluta
🇵🇹 Bitcoin não é uma cripto
🇳🇱 Bitcoin is geen crypto
🇵🇱 Bitcoin to nie jest kryptowaluta
🇳🇴 Bitcoin er ikke krypto
🇸🇪 Bitcoin är inte krypto
🇩🇰 Bitcoin er ikke krypto
🇮🇩 Bitcoin bukan kripto
🇻🇳 Bitcoin không phải là tiền mã hóa
🇵🇭 Ang Bitcoin ay hindi crypto
🇺🇦 Біткойн – це не криптовалюта
🇬🇷 Το Bitcoin δεν είναι κρυπτονόμισμα
🇹🇭 บิตคอยน์ไม่ใช่สกุลเงินดิจิทัล
🇨🇿 Bitcoin není kryptoměna
🇸🇰 Bitcoin nie je kryptomena
🇷🇴 Bitcoin nu este o criptomonedă
🇷🇸 Биткоин није криптовалута
🇲🇾 Bitcoin bukan kripto
🇿🇦 Bitcoin ayikho i-crypto
🇮🇸 Bitcoin er ekki dulritunargjaldmiðill
🇫🇮 Bitcoin ei ole kryptovaluutta
I’m still amazed that individuals in high positions within the financial industry continue to claim that Bitcoin has no value because it doesn’t provide services like a company does.
But what does a bank do? It securely holds your money for savings and capital accumulation, offers investment assets to guard against inflation and grow purchasing power, provides access to networks for sending money to family, business partners, or merchants, and, in some cases, facilitates the issuance of new money under specific rules. Nobody argues that these functions are useless, nor that banks have no value.
Bitcoin, however, provides all these services—often more effectively than any bank. It offers safer storage for savings and capital accumulation, acts as a speculative investment with an unparalleled track record (outperforming any asset offered by banks over the last decade), and enables money transfers to anyone globally at a fraction of traditional banking costs. Furthermore, Bitcoin’s network handles systemic issuance through mining rewards, which are completely predictable and transparent, unlike the ad hoc and often excessive money printing by banks.
So, if banks have value, how can anyone argue that Bitcoin lacks it? In fact, Bitcoin should arguably be valued much higher, given that its services outperform those of banks in all major aspects.
Currently, the combined market capitalization of all banks worldwide is approximately $10 trillion, while Bitcoin’s market cap is around $2 trillion. One could argue that Bitcoin is significantly undervalued and, as adoption grows, it could match or surpass the $10 trillion mark based on the superior services it provides.
Moreover, Bitcoin has the potential to capture market share from other asset classes, such as gold or real estate. Considering this, it’s reasonable to suggest that Bitcoin’s market cap could easily surpass $20 trillion in the long term.
That’s $1M per 1 BTC, which is cent parity with satoshi. This event will likely mark the point of bitcoin singularity, beyond which the valuation of BTC is unpredictable and also loses meaning in fiat terms. We may see a total paradigm shift away from fiat currencies around the world and the start of hyper-bitcoinisation.
⚡️ We're about to reach 10,000 registered and verified users on LN+! Thank you for your amazing work of making #bitcoin #lightning a highly functional, decentralised and reliable network!
Big moves for Bitcoin Lightning in Southeast Asia! 🏮 nostr:npub1mxer84mcfm7xduel6nnfguhmuutw4deafyzstlj8nyexpn7t8lmq6gvjy9 powers Aliniex to bring faster, cheaper BTC transactions to the region. This could spark a new wave of LN adoption:
⚡️ The Lightning Network is a game-changer for Bitcoin, making transactions faster, cheaper, and more private. The Lightning Network is Bitcoin’s supercharged secret weapon: https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/605
🟠 If Bitcoin were to reach $1M by the time it's 20 years old (in 4 years) it would need to appreciate on average ~78% per annum:
End of Year 2025: $178K
End of Year 2026: $316K
End of Year 2027: $563K
End of Year 2028: $1M
The Bitcoin genesis block was mined 16 years ago. 🫡
An interesting and less known fact about the Genesis block of Bitcoin is that the 50 BTC reward from this block is effectively unspendable. This is due to how the transaction is encoded in the block; it uses a non-standard scripting language which does not include spending instructions, making the initial 50 BTC locked and inoperable. Satoshi didn't even want to premine the first bitcoin block.
Another lesser-known fact about the Bitcoin Genesis block is the hidden message embedded within it by Satoshi Nakamoto. In addition to the well-known text from The Times newspaper headline (“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”), the block contains the value 486604799 in its coinbase parameter. This number, when interpreted as a hexadecimal string (0x1D00FFFF), represents the easiest possible mining difficulty for the Genesis block.
One final, lesser-known aspect about the Bitcoin Genesis block is that it wasn't actually broadcast to the network in the conventional sense since there was no network at that time. Satoshi Nakamoto mined this block on a single computer, and it only became part of the blockchain when other nodes joined the network later. This means the Genesis block was essentially a solitary event, unique in that it didn't need validation from other nodes to confirm its existence. This underscores the unique, bootstrapped nature of Bitcoin's initial implementation, where the blockchain started from a single point of origin before growing into a distributed network.
🐝 New store in the #bitcoin #lightningnetwork marketplace selling 🍯 #honey: https://lightningnetwork.plus/stores/sweetsats
👏 Nearly 900 #bitcoin #lightningnetwork nodes on LN+ have earned the *Prime* status, meaning they’ve received 10 or more positive ratings 👍 with a 90%+ approval rate: https://lightningnetwork.plus/prime_nodes
I will look into it! Thanks
We don’t have a custodial account for users. How else would we do this? I’m open to ideas.
Here is our 2024 LN+ yearly review!
Our community added to the #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork:
⚡️ 200+ BTC in new channel capacity
⚡️ 6K+ new channels
⚡️ ~1,700 new verified node operators
We did this across ~2K swaps, ~1K pool transactions and ~10K comments. Thank you for your work!
Other stats:
🛍️ We have 206 lightning market stores
🎓 2K+ people watched our bitcoin academy videos
🔒 200+ nodes watch each other's nodes
A full #lightning course and many fun and useful features are planned for 2025! The future is lit!⚡️ 
It doesn’t offer it automatically but several people automated it to their own specific needs through our API.
A look at a valuable metric for measuring the effectiveness of the #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork in routing payments: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-metric-that-matters-for-the-lightning-network
⚡️ The value carrying capacity of your existing #LightningNetwork channels doubled since the beginning of the year without you needing to do a single thing. 🙌
I never met anyone who regretted learning about #bitcoin. Do take the time to understand how to use it and keep it safe: https://lightningnetwork.plus/course_categories/1
🚀 Exciting new feature on LN+! Group Channel Opens lets LND node operators open up to 5 #lightning channels with a single #bitcoin transaction, saving over 50% on fees and block space. Balanced channels from the start: perfect for receiving, sending and routing payments. Ready to try? Here are the instructions: https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/594