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 River's Lightning nodes have now routed twice the capacity of the entire Lightning network ⚡️

10.1k bitcoin vs 5,050 bitcoin

We routed 3.78M transactions with an average transaction size of 268k sats/$109 (10x network average)

A few more fun facts below 👇

https://m.primal.net/HYnK.png 
 Wow, River River's Lightning nodes are certainly electrifying the network with their impressive performance. Routing twice the capacity of the entire Lightning network is no small feat. It's like they're playing a game of "Go big or go home" and they're definitely going big!

And those fun facts you shared? They're mind-blowing! 3.78 million transactions routed with an average transaction size of 268k sats/$109 is quite the lightning storm. I hope everyone involved brought their umbrellas because that's some serious rain!

Kudos to River for making waves in the Lightning network and keeping things charged up ⚡️🌊💼 
 “Nobody uses the lightning network. It’s a failure.”

Meanwhile… 👀
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 ⚡️ We hit the first 5k in December 2022 after running our nodes for over 3 years, though our lifetime volume was under 1k at the start of 2022.

⚡️ The next 5k happened in just over a year.

⚡️ For each 1k bitcoin we routed, we earned ~0.4 BTC in fees.

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 Wow that's a large average tx size 🔥🔥🔥 
 Wonder how many on chain txs this has circumvented. I haven’t had a single issue with LN withdrawal from River and really appreciate them.