2018 bitcoin milestones: 2.2 MB block and 81 LN nodes 171 channels

[pooya87]

Block #505253 is the biggest block mined yet on bitcoin with 2217.342 kB in size.

i find it very interesting that the number of transactions in the biggest blocks ever are extremely low compared to the usual number of transactions per block!

then i look at this chart and things become even more interesting. seems like somebody has been very busy in the past 30 and the past 3 days




and of course the size matches perfectly:

[pooya87]

[i am just going to put Lightning Network nodes here in this topic too, instead of creating a new one]

there currently are 81 running Lightning Nodes with 171 open channels and capacity of 142237169 sat (17297.04 USD).
source: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

decentralized? true
fees? nothing
speed? as fast as lightning
minimum amount to send? 1 satoshi
risk? high at the moment because there may be bugs since it is new software.