According to the service 1ML, currently the number of channels of the Protocol of the second level Lightning Network (LN) is 15 378. Current network capacity is 500 BTC, equivalent to $2.12 million

For the last 30 days LN the number of channels has grown by almost a quarter. These channels connect the nodes 4744 Lightning network, the number of which during the same period increased by 13%. In an average day in the network appears 31 Noda and 282 of the channel.

The decision of the Lightning Network allows you to make instant bitcoin transactions with negligible fees. In addition, the development of the LN-network contributes to the solution of the scalability issues of the first cryptocurrencies.

We will remind that recently the company Blockstream has promised to make possible Lightning-payments between space satellites and has announced the extension of the service on the Asia-Pacific region.

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