On 19 July, the number of open channels Lightning Network (LN) in the core network of bitcoin for the first time crossed the mark of 10 000.

#LightningNetwork

mainnet has reached 10,000 active channels!https://t.co/sJohipLfV2 #Lightning #LN #bitcoin $BTC pic.twitter.com/9jNzWaVjmt

— Lightning Network statistics ⚡ (@LNstats) 19 Jul 2018

The number of active Lightning-the node reached 2800.

#LightningNetwork https://t.co/Q0CaYRhLWD observed:
2,836 nodes
10,040 channels
94.363 BTC capacity ($687,602.70)

2,140 public nodes
2,056 nodes with channels
240 channels opened, 193 channels closed in 24h#Lightning #LN #bitcoin $BTC

— Lightning Network statistics ⚡ (@LNstats) 21 Jul 2018

It is noteworthy that the amount of Lightning on the media channels during the month grew by 288%, 21 Jul reached a record 100 BTC.

#LightningNetwork

mainnet BTC has reached 100 capacity!
(+288% in a month!)https://t.co/sJohipLfV2 #Lightning #LN #bitcoin $BTC pic.twitter.com/PJ9ICtkfVO

— Lightning Network statistics ⚡ (@LNstats) 21 Jul 2018

We will remind, earlier it became known that belongs to the website Shitcoin.com Noda controls more than half of the total amount of funds to Lightning Network (51,629%).

At the moment, this figure dropped to of 41.76%.

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