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Bull Bitcoin drags DAC8 before the Conseil d’État to have it canceled and draws a line in the sand
What is Spark? The Bitcoin Layer 2 behind the new wave of self-custodial wallets
What is the Ark protocol? The missing piece to make Bitcoin a scalable everyday currency
What Is the Lightning Network? Bitcoin's Payment Layer Explained
What Is Bitcoin? The Digital Currency Challenging Gold and Central Banks
What is Citrea? The Bitcoin rollup powered by BitVM?
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Open the map →A Map of Bitcoin and its scaling layers
Lightning, Ark, Spark, BitVM, Liquid, RGB: every layer, what it trusts, and what it gives up. One map, from the base layer up.
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Bitcoin Data
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- Daily hashrate
- 1,001 EH/s
Measured 7 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · Recent observation · mempool.space
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Explore the map →Lightning Network map
Where Lightning’s public nodes are hosted, the channels that link them and the cloud providers that carry its capacity. Figures cross-checked every night across several explorers.
- Nodes on the map
- 2,803
- Countries
- 63
- Public capacity
- 2,301 to 3,075 BTC
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Open the atlas →Community Atlas
Bitcoin meetups, conferences, communities and places to pay in bitcoin, worldwide. Refreshed every 6 hours from BTC Map, Meetup, Luma, Nostr and Plan ₿ Network.
- Places accepting bitcoin
- 29,764
- Communities
- 693
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