Lightning Network data reveals a clear pullback in both capacity and channel count over the past year. As activity thins out, the network is showing stronger pockets of centralization—clustered around a handful of node operators, specific server hosts, and dominant geographic hubs.
Lightning Network Contracts: Data Reveals 30%+ Drop in BTC Capacity
The most visible decline is in total capacity.
As August winds down, readings on Ethereum’s supply, fees, throughput, holders and overall price point to a week with positive net issuance, steady onchain use, and relatively low transaction costs.
Ethereum Under the Hood
Blockchair’s supply trajectory data indicates…
Bitcoin’s daily transaction pace has cooled in 2025 after a blistering run last year. Data covering Jan. 1, 2017, through Aug. 23, 2025, shows that 2025’s year-to-date throughput trails 2024’s full-year average by roughly one-quarter, and miners’ fee share of rewards…
Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole
August 28, 2025
Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a supermassive black hole lurks.
The team, led by Matus Rybak of Leiden University, made the discovery while hunting for cold gas in the galaxy RXJ1131-1231, an active galaxy with a quasar at its core located…
That mysterious 'Wow! signal' from space? Scientists may finally know where it came from — and it's probably not aliens
August 28, 2025
For researchers seeking answers to the question of whether we are alone in the universe, one event nearly half a century ago lingers even today — the so-called “Wow! Signal” detected back in 1977.
That strong, baffling radio episode was captured by Ohio State…
Starship Mars rocket met 'every major objective' on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says
August 28, 2025
The Starship megarocket passed its latest launch trial with flying colors, according to SpaceX.
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT) on Tuesday (Aug. 26), kicking off…
Your exclusive first look at the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is here. Now in its 61st year, this world-renowned competition, developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, has once again brought together the most striking, moving, and unforgettable images of wildlife from across the globe.
Selected from 60,636 entries across 113 countries and territories, the…
Who will win the 'Oscar' of photography? The AOP Awards finalists are in – and they're here to impress
August 28, 2025
The AOP Photography Awards turn 40 – and what better way to celebrate than with a lineup of extraordinary images. Often called the ‘Oscars’ of the photography world, the AOP Awards, this year sponsored by MPB, have stood strong for decades – not by following…
Taylor Swift's engagement pictures are so popular, they broke Instagram. But photographers have mixed opinions
August 28, 2025
When the artist with the most Grammy albums and the highest-grossing concert tour gets engaged to a three-time Super Bowl champ, the internet basically implodes. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on August 26 with a series of five photos.
Is it the IONIQ 2 or 3? We are finally getting our first official look at the new Hyundai EV that will debut at next month’s Munich Motor Show. Take a look at the images below.
Hyundai offers a first look at its new EV
Rumors of a new entry-level Hyundai have been spreading like wildfire over the past few months. After a few prototypes have been spotted out in public testing, some claim it’s…
