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What Is the Lightning Network? Bitcoin's Payment Layer Explained
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Open the map →A Map of Bitcoin and its scaling layers
Lightning, Ark, Spark, BitVM, Liquid, RGB: every layer, what it trusts, and what it gives up. One map, from the base layer up.
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Lightning Network map
Where Lightning’s public nodes are hosted, the channels that link them and the cloud providers that carry its capacity. Figures cross-checked every night across several explorers.
- Nodes on the map
- 4,097
- Countries
- 64
- Public capacity
- 2,431 to 3,420 BTC
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