Why It Doesn’t Make Sense to Compare Lightning to DeFi
Ryan Gentry, business development lead at Lightning Labs, discusses the latest updates on the Lightning Network, the layer 2 solution for Bitcoin. Highlights:
- how Lightning Network is bringing Bitcoin to the masses through partnerships with Twitter, Substack, and Paxful
- what the significance of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin means for the Lightning Network
- how many nodes are running Lightning Network nodes
- why the capacity on the Lightning Network has grown rapidly
- how Ryan has seen interest in Lightning has changed since the El Salvador announcement earlier this year
- what stage of adoption Ryan thinks the Lightning Network is
- why Lightning Network total-value-locked should not be compared to Ethereum L2s or other DeFi protocols
- how Lightning Network differs from DeFi
- what metric Ryan believes is the best way to measure adoption on Lightning Network
- how El Salvador has changed the types of transactions being made on Lightning Network
- what’s next for Lightning Network and how Lightning micropayments could affect how podcasts (like Unchained!) are distributed
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Episode Links
Ryan Gentry
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanthegentry
The Summer of Lightning: Reaching the Tipping Point
- https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-lightning-reaching
Lightning Labs
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning
- Website: https://lightning.engineering/
Lightning Enabled Tips
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Twitter:
- https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/bringing-tips-to-everyone
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Substack:
- https://decrypt.co/79215/substack-accept-bitcoin-payments-lightning-network
Paxful Integration
- https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/paxful-integrates-bitcoin-lightning-network
Arcane Research Paper
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Paper:
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60377b34e7791c1277aaae97/t/615cb9aeaab8c63e1a732771/1633466815710/The+State+of+Lightning.pdf
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Tweet thread:
- https://twitter.com/ArcaneResearch/status/1445749299703205894
Lightning Network stats
- https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&c=native&category=Lightning&chartStyle=column&contractExpiration=1640908800&ema=0&m=lightning.NetworkCapacitySum&mAvg=0&mMedian=0&resolution=24h&zoom=all
- https://1ml.com/statistics
Lightning Network Resources
- https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html
Preston Pysh episode with BTC Sessions
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bBJjVEg1U
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