Satoshis.place has made a very good impression on the community of bitcoiners, leaving a balance of about 8.2 million pixels painted on a digital board hosted on a site on the network, where satoshis are used through Lightning Network. Each pixel has a value of 1 satoshi and the board is composed of 1 million pixels, which means that the board has been painted and repainted at least 8 times.
In fact, the statistics on the use and the number of pixels painted on the site were shared in this way by the creator of satoshis.place, the developer Lightning K0ala . According to him, in addition to the more than 8 million pixels painted, 2,911 microtransactions have been made, the blackboard has received about 10,000 unique visitors during the past June 12 and 9,300 this Wednesday 13. These statistics do not take into account the bots that they work directly on the API.
The exact total of pixels is 8,197,755 , with which faces of Roger Ver, Craig Wright, Elizabeth Stark, as well as messages and symbols allusive to the ecosystem have been drawn. In addition, bitcoiners have taken advantage of this space to let their imagination run, painting penises, which they share with works well known as The Mona Lisa or the Birth of Venus .
The community has manifested itself by constantly transforming the appearance of the site. Through the Telegram channel of the page, the discussions about the operation of the blackboard and the difficulties that the project has been encountering since its launch show that the level of participation of the bitcoiner community has been growing.
In addition, other more serious discussion spaces, such as the Lightning Network developer forum have also been the scene of comments on the operation of this curious application.
One of the most curious elements of the birth of this collaborative blackboard is the fact that promoters of Bitcoin Cash will use the blackboard to advertise their project . In response, the bitcoiners vandalized the designs. Users have made a parody about the fact that Bitcoin Cash holders are using the board, especially because, for its operation, Lightning Network uses a development that has been criticized by its promoters.
The reactions were not long in coming, and even developers like Jameson Lopp have noticed the emergence of this website and its implementation of the Bitcoin micropayment network.
Jameson Lopp
satoshis.place drives Lightning's innovation through stress tests in the real world. More than 8,000 daily users, 8,000,000 pixels drawn and 3,000 established payments. The developers of Lightning are writing patches to improve their performance as a direct response to the comments provided by @ LightningK0ala.
" This is one of the first of many applications that are monetized through Bitcoin micropayments . Never before have you been able to transmit fractions of cents so easily. This is a big problem. The application itself is just a fun demonstration of this incredible technology, " the engineer Alexander Leishman tweeted next to the statistics .
Recall that a few days ago Lightning K0ala created an interactive whiteboard called Satoshi's Place , where users can use the Lightning Network to buy pixels and make their own design. "Satoshi's Place is an excellent way to experience the power of microtransactions through Lightning Network," explained the creator of the online site. The slate was developed using c-lightning, from blockstream.
However, according to the developer, the objective of this creation is not the drawings themselves, but the opportunity to use the network of micropayments directly, visually, making the community interested in its operation.
Recall that Lightning Network a possible solution to the problems of scalability of the network, opening the possibility that bitcoin can be used for instant payments and to mobilize small amounts of money with low commissions.