Over the past month, there's been a lot of cleanup of lightning channels with single direction payment flows. These channels should be closed after a time since they are no longer useful for routing payments. In most cases, there are already parallel routes with sufficient liquidity to settle payments. Overall payment pathfinding and payment success is expected to improve since the remaining channels have a better chance of successfully routing payments. Our observation of the Lightning Network capacity decreasing recently has been validated other lightning network explorers and verified by on-chain proof that the channel UTXOs have been spent.

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"BlackRock’s proposed spot bitcoin ETF misses the opportunity to deploy those funds on the Lighting Network and earn non-custodial yield by provi...

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“So Blackrock has an opportunity to disrupt, not only all of the interest in gold, and go for a digital gold which [BlackRock CEO] Larry Fink already seems to prefer, but also payment processors like Visa, Mastercard and American Express and actually have the true upside of a tech company but the fundamentals of a very natural asset that is scarce,” https://www.theblock.co/post/240048/blackrock-disrupt-visa-mastercard-lightning-network-amboss

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Using LINER, our reference rate for costs and yield from the lightning network, we have never seen a month fall below 1% yield on a weighted average basis.

Every exchange will use lightning. It's just a matter of time.

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Binance - Lightning Network Node | Amboss

Binance is a Lightning Network node with 142 channels and a capacity of 35,860,400,000 sats. Pubkey: 03a1f3afd646d77bdaf545cceaf079bab6057eae52c631...

Catch our in-depth discussion with @PrestonPysh about the #Bitcoin    #Lightningnetwork as an alternative to traditional payments. The data that we display answers many questions about the opportunity cost of traditional settlement methods when lightning provides a new paradigm. Watch: youtu.be/FXnEHRd7jls Listen: link.chtbl.com/BTC133 Transcript: buff.ly/3oRkJvn

Amboss Unveils LINER Index for Enterprise Lightning Yield Benchmark ⚡️🌋🚀 Dives into the deep end of financial innovation with #LINER. @BitcoinMagazine spotlights how we're making waves in the #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork universe.

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Amboss Unveils LINER Index, Bolstering Enterprise Adoption Of Lightning Network

LINER, a new index by Amboss, measures Bitcoin yield and cost on the Lightning Network, attracting enterprises with low-risk opportunities.

It appears that sentiment has shifted in lightning channel opens and we may have reached a local bottom in lightning capacity with new channel opens picking up.

Layer up and enjoy the ride!

Lightning Operational Health: ✅ Functioning normally USD Operational Health: ❌ Problems detected ❌ Closed for weekend ❌ Multiple Bankruptcies affecting payments

Over the past 30 days, traffic from iris.to to amboss.space has risen to about 1/5th of twitter traffic. Over the past 7 days, traffic from iris is more than 1/4 of traffic from twitter. Seems like a solid trend.

Get ready NOSTRiches! We've added nostr pubkeys to Amboss pages so you can easily follow your lightning peers. We've added NIP-05 verification to tag/find your friends with user @

Amboss Space

Amboss - Bitcoin Lightning Network Infrastructure, Explorer & Analytics

Intelligent payment infrastructure built on Bitcoin. Explore the Lightning Network, accept payments with Rails, trade on RailsX, manage compliance ...

We're releasing this on a new tier with lower prices and more upgrades 👇

When information on Amboss doesn't match your node, it's most often resolved by restarting your lightning node, which rebroadcasts "gossip" messages to the network. The AOT metric measures how fast gossip messages propagate through the network to us. 60 mins AOT is excellent.

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