⚖️ Channel rebalancing is the “inventory management” of Lightning routing: keeping enough liquidity on the right side of your channels so payments can flow smoothly. This post explains how to spot imbalance, set realistic targets, and use practical approaches like circular rebalances, fee tuning, and smarter peer/channel choices to improve reliability without burning fees. It also notes a handy option for LN+ Liquidity Swap participants: once channels open, LN+ provides instructions to rebalance the group’s triangles, squares, and pentagons so the swap can start routing better faster. #bitcoin #lightning

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Channel Rebalancing 101: Practical Strategies for Better Routing • LightningNetwork+

Channel rebalancing is the habit of moving liquidity around so your node can keep forwarding payments. A channel can have plenty of total capacity ...

💜 Over 118,000 comments have been shared on LN+ by more than 11,000 Lightning Network node operators. One discussion on a liquidity-swap triangle has been running for eight months and has grown to more than 230 comments. The community is generally very welcoming and often helps newcomers get up to speed on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.

⚡️ Is the Bitoin Lightning Network just getting started? Absolutely. Some say progress feels quiet — but that’s exactly how strong foundations are built. Bitcoin first had to become a reliable Store of Value before the real magic of a global Medium of Exchange could unfold. Now the conditions are finally right. Here’s why Lightning’s moment has arrived:

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From Digital Gold to Digital Cash: Why the Lightning Network’s Moment Has Arrived • LightningNetwork+

For years, the Bitcoin community has lived with a persistent dichotomy. On one hand, we have witnessed historic milestones—a sovereign nation, El...

⚡ Square's Bitcoin Lightning rollout starts Nov 10! Instant settlement & zero fees until 2027. Major boost for Lightning adoption! Details and video 📺 →

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Square Launches Lightning-Powered Bitcoin Payments: Zero Fees Until 2027 • LightningNetwork+

Square, part of Block, Inc., has officially announced that its sellers can begin accepting bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network starting Nove...

🆕 New app in the LN+ marketplace: Macadamia Wallet is a native iOS wallet for Cashu, a Chaumian ecash protocol on Bitcoin. It lets you mint, send, and receive ecash, and—most importantly—melt tokens to pay Lightning Network invoices. You can also restore your wallet with a 12-word seed, so you can manage private Lightning payments on iOS easily.

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macadamia Wallet • LightningNetwork+

macadamia is a native iOS wallet for Cashu, a Chaumian ecash protocol on Bitcoin. It lets you mint, send, and receive ecash, and—most importantly...

📊 New Store in the Market: @BGeometrics provides advanced metrics and charts on Bitcoin’s on-chain activity: SOPR, MVRV, NRPL, CDD, VDD, and more. Access real-time data, automated alerts, and an exclusive API for analysts, researchers, and developers. Subscriptions via the Lightning Network.

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BGeometrics • LightningNetwork+

Provides advanced metrics and charts on Bitcoin’s on-chain activity: SOPR, MVRV, NRPL, CDD, VDD, and more. Access real-time data, automated alert...

New #Telegram feature on LN+! Get instant notifications for Liquidity Swaps, Pool offers, and node operator messages:

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Introducing Telegram notifications • LightningNetwork+

To act quickly when opening channels in a Liquidity Swap or getting your offer accepted in the Liquidity Pool, timely notifications are crucial. In...

🟣 LN+ now offers encrypted DM notifications through your favorite #Nostr client, keeping you instantly updated on your Liquidity Swap, Pool offers, messages from other node operators, etc. Just link your Nostr npub in your LN+ Dashboard and enable Nostr DM notifications! #bitcoin #lightning

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Introducing Nostr DM notifications • LightningNetwork+

To ensure you can act quickly when opening channels in a Liquidity Swap or getting your offer accepted in the Liquidity Pool, timely notifications ...

BLFS (#Bitcoin #Lightning for #Shopify) by MegalithicBTC is a lightweight server application. It connects Shopify merchants to Bitcoin Lightning payments via NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect):

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GitHub - MegalithicBTC/BLFS: BLFS: Bitcoin Lightning For Shopify

BLFS: Bitcoin Lightning For Shopify. Contribute to MegalithicBTC/BLFS development by creating an account on GitHub.

📈 On LN+ we have: • 11,000 verified users • Who opened 60,000+ channels • With an average of 3.3M SAT capacity each Great to see such a vibrant Bitcoin Lightning community!

First-ever atomic RGB asset swap on Bitcoin Lightning Network mainnet: KaleidoSwap traded 12k sats for 13 tUSDT—instant, trustless, fees < a few sats.

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First RGB asset swap on Lightning Network

KaleidoSwap executes atomic stablecoin swap on Lightning mainnet using the RGB protocol. The decentralized exchange KaleidoSwap has successfully co...

🎰 New service added to the Bitcoin Lightning Market: The Daily Thunder is a lottery system that runs on Bitcoin's blockchain. Instead of using random numbers that can be manipulated, it uses the natural timing of Bitcoin blocks to create a completely fair and transparent betting system.

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The Daily Thunder • LightningNetwork+

The Daily Thunder is a revolutionary lottery system that runs on Bitcoin's blockchain. Instead of using random numbers that can be manipulated, it ...

🪽 Nostr sign-in landed at LN+! Use your Nostr identity (via Alby, Nos2x, etc.) to log in with one click:

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Introducing Nostr Sign-In for LN+ • LightningNetwork+

Nostr + LN+: A Natural Match Nostr is quickly becoming the social and identity layer for the Bitcoin and Lightning communities—so it only made se...

We’re thrilled to announce our new Layer-3 solution: Lightning in a Bottle™. Through advanced quantum Satoshi condensation and hermetic mempool sealing, we’ve finally achieved the impossible: trapping real Lightning liquidity in a physical container. True decentralization – in glass. Feature List: ✅ Fully air-gapped Lightning node in bottle form ✅ Stick it in the freezer for ultra cold storage ✅ Simply smash the bottle to release sats

🗞️ Key takeaways from the bitcoin lightning report by Fidelity Digital Assets and @Voltage: ⚡️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.

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⚡️ 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! 🏮 @Neutron powers Aliniex to bring faster, cheaper BTC transactions to the region. This could spark a new wave of LN adoption:

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Big News for Bitcoin Lightning in Southeast Asia: Neutronpay Teams Up with Aliniex • LightningNetwork+

If you’ve been following Bitcoin’s journey, you already know the Lightning Network (LN) is a game-changer. It’s been making waves in South Am...