Since the beginning of the year, the number of bitcoins blocked on the Lightning Network has been constantly growing and now the figure has exceeded 1,500 BTC.
Lightning Network is a second-tier solution for scaling the Bitcoin network, which can significantly reduce the volume of commissions and speed up payments. Usually, the transaction takes only a few seconds, and the commission is from 1 satoshi.
Given the adoption of Bitcoin as an official legal tender in El Salvador and the possibility of a similar move in Panama, decisions to scale the first cryptocurrency network will be critical.
If in January 1,040 BTC were blocked in the Lightning Network, then at the moment their number has exceeded 1,500. Thus, the network capacity has increased by 50% in just six months. At the same time, it took more than three years for the indicator to reach 1,000 BTC.
The number of nodes in the Lightning Network is 21,567, but there are 12,040 active nodes that have at least one active channel. Currently, there are more than 50,000 channels between nodes in the network.
Note that at the beginning of April, the capacity of the Lighting Network was 1,185 BTC, and the number of active nodes only exceeded 10,000.
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