Another data point: Wallet of Satoshi shows the number of transactions made on their homepage: https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/ so you can check in a month and compute delta too :)
Current number is 3,535,694 (Fri Jun 10, 4:10pm PST)
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Great find!
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I calculated the amount and on January 20 2022 the amount was 2,845,413 acording to the wayback machine. This number now stands at 3,539,014. These 2 numbers give an average of about 130.000 payments every 30 days
Also given that WOS doesnt support podcasting 2.0 this number is even more impressive
What a great question. Sounds like that Jeffrey guy is on the ball. ;)
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haha great question indeed. enjoy the stream of sats!
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Thank you! First time I've ever received streaming sats.
I was reflecting... you may have kind of went from discussing the future, to making history today. Do you know if you we're you the first 2.0 pod caster to pay a listener v4v in real-time?
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good question, maybe someone has paid a listener via node pubkey, but the fountain integration that lets me add a fountain listener just launched recently.
i don’t think many shows are engaging listeners like this yet, but hopeful that more will jump on board soon.
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This is roughly 1 transaction every 10 seconds.
If we estimate Breez as representing 1% of the Lightning ecosystem, that's 10 tps on Lightning (already more than Bitcoin's base blockchain).
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I'd guess Breez is more than just 1% especially because streaming sats to podcasts...
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yeah i'd probably guess 1-5%, wanted to keep the numbers round and 1% seemed more likely than 10%
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And I believe channel open and closes are 1% of the blockspace being used atm.
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with 1 sat for every transaction they got about 90usd per month, probably they arent profitable yet,
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They said they were profitable when excluding wages for the devs.