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112 sats \ 2 replies \ @scampy 25 Jul 2022 freebie \ on: Bitcoin Lightning Network capacity rises to a new high amid bear market bitcoin
Probably a dumb question...
These metrics specifically refer to "public" capacity. Does this mean that there are also private networks? And if so, do we have much information on private Lightning capacity (as channel management still requires an on-chain footprint)?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 25 Jul 2022
There are private channels that only the two parties involved know about.
As a consequence of the previous, there is no way to know that total number of sats locked in private channels.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 25 Jul 2022
Channels of nodes which are not announced publicly exist but they're not interesting I think, as they don't contribute by routing. Someone out there probably tries to map it anyhow!
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