Happy New Year, Lightning node operators! Here is our latest routing ranking and reward payout list for the past 3 months for the Diamond Hands node. We’ve already sent out payouts via keysend to all the qualified nodes. This ranking is based on metrics; channel capacity, routing volume, fee…

Dear Lightning node operators across the globe, I’m very excited to announce that we’ve officially beta-launched Diamond Swap, Boltz-based trustless swap service between onchain and offchain liquidity. Diamond Swap

It’s been already 3–4 months since the last reward distribution(sorry about the wait!) but Diamond Hands has distributed routing rewards for nodes who open a channel and provide inbound liquidity to the Diamond Hands node for the months of July-Sep 2022. This is a voluntary routing reward program which…

I’m excited to announce that Diamond Hands community has released “Understanding Lightning” report. This report was originally born in order to address a lack of an introductory and summarizing material for Lightning in Japanese. …

April Reward Distribution Following the routing reward distribution last month for March, Diamond Hands have given away a total of 2 millions sats again for April. Please read the previous update to leanr more about the purpose of the campaign and how to participate. Diamond Hands Routing Rewards (March 2022) As we unofficially announced in various online groups(Plebnet, Ring of Fire etc) the past few weeks, the Diamond Hands…medium.com

The Diamond Hands community is now supported by ZEBEDEE and Mimesis Capital, in addition to the current sponsors consisting of several prominent crypto companies in Japan including bitFlyer blockchain, bitbank, Coinbase Japan, and Kraken Japan. Through collaboration with our supporters, we are looking to lead and futher push the Lightning…

As we unofficially announced in various online groups(Plebnet, Ring of Fire etc) the past few weeks, the Diamond Hands community have distributed routing rewards for March to all participating routing nodes. Diamond Hands is the largest Lightning Network user community in Japan. We run a large Lightning routing node ourselves…

TL;DR The Diamond Hands node’s transaction volume has grown about 30% monthly on average since April 2021 and it now routes more than 10 BTC/month. The median transaction size for the last 3 months is 47,298 sats and the average size is 103,962 sats. Many transactions are so-called rebalance transactions…

Spells of Genesis (SoG) and Rarepepe have recently been “rediscovered” by the NFT community and have come back to life. Flagship NFTs like SATOSHICARD and the Nakamoto card in those collections now easily sell for half a million dollars, and other rare cards are selling left and right. Some people…