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2026-04-21 · bitcoin — The public Lightning Network crossed 20,000 nodes and 60,000 channels this year. Payment volume, by any honest measure, has barely moved. The infrastructure got built. The demand did not show up. The gap between the two is the story the ecosystem keeps refusing to tell.
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2026-04-16 · opinion — Stablecoin circulating supply passed $200 billion. Daily settlement volume routinely exceeds Visa in dollar terms. Emerging market users are adopting stablecoins faster than they ever adopted Bitcoin. The maximalist response has been to ignore the data and repeat the 2019 talking points. That response is losing the argument and losing the market share. It is worth being specific about what exactly is being lost, because parts of the maximalist case are still correct and parts of it are not.
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2026-04-08 · bitcoin — Nostr Wallet Connect quietly turned Bitcoin's Lightning Network into a permissionless payment layer that works across any app, any country, no KYC, no intermediary, no platform risk. The financial system just got an upgrade it can't undo.
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2026-03-22 · bitcoin — Starting March 30, Square enables Lightning payments by default across 4 million merchants. Zero fees through 2026, instant settlement, no chargebacks.
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2026-03-21 · opinion — While skeptics debate whether Lightning 'works,' a parallel economy runs on it. Nostr zaps, merchant payments, cross-border remittances - it's not theoretical.