While everyone is focused on Bitcoin dropping to $63K something happened last week that nobody talked about

The Lightning Network crossed $1 billion in monthly transaction volume for the first time ever

$1.17 billion across 5.2 million transactions in November

And the average transaction size nearly doubled year over year from $118 to $223 which means this isn't just micropayment experimentation anymore

Businesses are using it

Exchanges are moving real money through it

Bitcoin's price is down 50% from its high and its actual usage as a payment network just hit an all time record

I find it genuinely remarkable that these two things can be true simultaneously and I find it even more remarkable that almost nobody is talking about the second one because it doesn't fit the obituary everyone is busy writing