Move Over, Ethereum – Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Apps, Too

As of this writing, the Lightning Community’s capability – the whole quantity of bitcoin within the community – has reached an all-time excessive of 4,351 BTC, equal to virtually $100 million. The record of exchanges which have built-in Lightning is steadily rising, with Kraken, Okcoin and OKEx being the newest additions. Based on Bitcoin Visuals, the variety of nodes on the finish of July 2021 was round 13,391. That determine has elevated by roughly 27% to virtually 17,000 nodes. (The precise node depend will at all times be increased as there’s a important variety of personal nodes that aren’t included in public information.) These will increase in capability, trade integration and node depend all level towards elevated consumer adoption.