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27 sats \ 3 replies \ @kilianbuhn 7 Apr 2023 \ on: LN network capacity 10,000BTC end of the year says CEO LNcapital bitcoin
Idk how useful total network capacity is as a metric 🙄
The real bottleneck is the smallest channel between you and your recipient/sender. And not how big the network is as a whole.
Why smallest channel? Not average channel size?
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I think you can split in smaller pieces to different routes to fit those possible bottlenecks, but in the end if the receiver has only one channel opened with small liquidity, then that is the problem.
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Sure, on an individual level, it's an insignificant metric.
But on the whole, it's useful to see how much Lightning adoption is growing. Total capacity is more important than number of channels or even number of nodes, I would think.
To be clear, number of nodes is incredibly important for Bitcoin, but LN I think capacity is more important.
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