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Does Lightning Network drive meaningful base chain usage?typerbole.substack.com/p/does-lightning-network-drive-meaningful

9 sats \ 2 boost \ 3 comments \ @notgeld 17 Aug 2021 bitcoin

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @LibreLoya 18 Aug 2021

I'm noticing lower transactions fees with the lightning network growth.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 17 Aug 2021

It'd be nice to see if there's some kind of relationship between total block space usage and lightning channel growth - is it helping to drive empty blocks? This could be somewhat concerning for our fee-only block reward future.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @notgeld OP 23 Aug 2021

We are too early I think. LN is not saturated yet, no major correction of liquidity happened.