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Spark
Company blog · spark.money/researchsystemsbusiness
Spark is the company blog at spark.money, writing about systems and business. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked pages cover Lightning Network throughput compared with Visa and the monetization of internet payments. Commenters cite the throughput tool as a source and question the claims in the monetization discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
"Can" != "does". The current actual throughput of the Lightning Network is estimated at around 300 TPS: https://www.spark.money/tools/lightning-vs-visa Also, everything on level 2 needs to be ultimately balanced on level 1; BTC doesn't have enough throughput to balance all the banks in the world, and lo Lightning appears to be consolidating into fewer nodes. Also also, everything level 2 (including Lightning) necess…
Comment linking /tools/lightning-vs-visa
on “SpaceX Is Buying Cursor”Submitted Breez and Spark Partner to Bring Native Bitcoin Lightning Payments to Any App as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"There is an enormous amount of value moving across the Internet today that goes unmonetized or undermonetized, not because no one would pay for it, but because the tools to charge for it have never existed." Every road a toll road. How big a cut does Cloudflare want? Whose "stablecoin" does this use? How much does each on-chain stablecoin transaction cost?[1] For comparison, FedNow bank to bank transfers cost $0.04…
Comment linking /tools/stablecoin-fee-calculator
on “Monetization Gateway”Submitted Lightning Mobile Wallets: Architecture and Implementation Patterns – Spark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spark: Bitcoin's Payment Layer for Stablecoins and Instant BTC as a story · 1 points
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