Sam Wouters

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Sam Wouters
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Director of Marketing at River
For years, Bitcoiners pushed exchanges to adopt Lightning. And guess what? It worked. Public Lightning volume is up 266% in about a year. A few interesting insights from our new @npub1xker...d0en report: Our previous Lightning research in 2023 showed a 1212% increase in transactions. Many of these were low value, as people experimented with new apps & business models. Now, a new wave of bigger volume has come in, driven by exchanges. We used the same methodology for our estimates as in 2023, but instead of having data on 52% of public capacity, we now got up to 79.4% A massive thank you to Acinq, @Alby, Bitfinex, @npub1juga...fc28, C=, @LNBϟG, Kraken, LQWD, NiceHash, OKX, Cyberdyne, Sunny Sarah, @npub1hm63...zr0p, and @Wallet of Satoshi for sharing data. The Lightning industry continues to grow We’ve updated our map, adding 46 new companies and removing 12. We expect Lightning to continue growing: - On-chain fees remain low, slowing adoption. - USDT on Lightning may increase activity. - Dozens of scaling proposals continue to build on Lightning. More Lightning + Bitcoin adoption trends in our new report 👇
River Intelligence
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We're hiring a Product Marketing Manager at @npub1xker...d0en to work with me on our go-to-market for new products, and our product marketing as a whole. Because we build #Bitcoin  products, we need a Bitcoiner for this role! Come join our awesome team 🧡 Job description for Product Marketing Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/riverfinancial/jobs/5195403004 We're hiring for more roles, check them out: https://boards.greenhouse.io/riverfinancial image
“Nobody is using Lightning” should now be a dead meme. Launching a new Bitcoin report from @npub1xker...d0en: How the Lightning Network grew by 1212% in 2 years ⚡ It’s time to pay attention to the incredible work of so many people in the space. In this report: - How many transactions on Lightning - How much volume - How many users - Industry overview of 173 companies - Funding overview - River-specific insights - Why are companies interested in Lightning - Growth accelerators And yes, an executive summary 😉 You can find the report here
River Intelligence
The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years - River Intelligence
Critics say Lightning is stagnating, but River’s new report shows explosive growth in users, transactions, and volume. Download the full breakdown.
 It would mean a lot if you could share this post and/or the report 🧡 I'll be sharing this report at The Bitcoin Conference in Amsterdam in 2 days! image