The Lightning Network has a capacity of more than 3,000 BTC!

More than three thousand . are now hosted Bitcoin BTC on network Lightning Network, a side chain that enables faster, low-fee payments to owners Bitcoin The data is shown by the tracking tool TX Stats.

Capacity has doubled from 1500 Bitcoin BTC Since June 2021It has tripled since late last year 2020, which indicates an increased demand for a product Lightning. The increase comes against the background of El Salvador's move to legitimize the Bitcoin BTC in the last year.

What does Lightning do for Bitcoin?

Lightning It is a payment protocol “2layer”, created by the company Blockstream Bitcoin, which is designed to be layered on top of a .-based cryptocurrency blockchain, likes Bitcoin or Litecoin.

While its purpose is to enable fast transactions between Nodes Participation, it has been suggested as a solution to the scalability problem Bitcoin.

The network is made up of nodes Nodes (PCs), you are running a program Lightning LN, connected Nodes Others via payment channels.

This allows it to forward the payments on their way to their final destination (the payment recipient). While each payment channel needs enough Bitcoin have to pay.

It was a network adoption Lightning Slow but steady. While many use cases remain Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency) is the state of trading and speculation in current times, but that is changing rapidly.

It is worth noting that it is now working more than 77 one thousand "channel" on knots Lightning, to support the growing network, while performing hundreds of transactions Bitcoin every day.

El Salvador's move to legitimize Bitcoin, to increase the demand for a payments tool Bitcoin Express, which takes seconds instead of minutes, to confirm transactions on its network.