My favorite analogy for Lightning Loop is that it’s a Brinks cash truck for Lightning businesses. A business fills up on Lightning payments and needs the truck to bring those sats to a safer, on-chain layer. As an added benefit, you replenish your inbound in the process.

Attention Node Running Nostriches: Did you know that with Lightning Pool you can generate non-custodial yield on your Bitcoin? Just this week alone, in the 2 week lease duration market: - Sellers earned 168,888 sats 🤑 - 26.07% median APR 📈 - 54.20m sats of inbound sold Hop in the Pool! Water's warm. 🌊

Top Performing Nodes - Lightning Terminal

For Lightning node operators to gauge their node's performance and get actionable recommendations on ways to improve.

One of the best podcast episodes I've listened to this year.

Fountain

Fountain

Discover millions of podcasts and emerging artists worth supporting. Powered by RSS, Lightning and Nostr.

In one paragraph or less, explain to a "normie" why they should use Nostr as it exists today (not taking into account future use cases yet). Normie = non-bitcoiner, someone who hasn't been deplatformed, uses Twitter for random news/entertainment, etc Basically, ELI5 why Nostr, why now. 5,000 sats zapped to the best answer.

What paid relays have people had the most success with/would recommend?

hello nostriches 🤙🏼