We're getting toward the last few days before the continuation proposal for developing the Hive Lightning bridge goes live in 5 days. There's been a roughly 3 week gap between proposals.

I really would greatly appreciate your continued support in this work!

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**[Support Proposal 222 on PeakD](https://peakd.com/me/proposals/222)
[Support Proposal 222 with Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B222%5D&approve=true)
[Support Proposal 222 on Ecency](https://ecency.com/proposals/222)**
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### Since April

- More than 100 Hive users have used the service since April.
- Hive to Lightning: $2,367 or 6,768,096 sats sent
- Lightning to Hive: $1,137 or 3,508,788 sats received
- The rate of usage has increased dramatically over the last 3 weeks.
- 18m sats on the V4VApp node for liquidity.

## App Updated again

I quietly added a new feature to the @v4vapp [v4v.app](https://v4v.app) web app. You can now TYPE a lightning address in to the app. These are the ones that look like email addresses and many people are now designating them with an emoji:

⚡brianoflondon@getalby.com

What you can't do is use a Hive Lightning Address (⚡brianoflondon@v4v.ap) because that would be self payment which is silly)

Copy paste that into the site or type one out it should work (leave off the emoji!)

## In the background

I've been working on some very important database upgrades which start the work of ensuring I can deploy the whole system as a new instance. 

I'm also putting in place some detailed analytics on how the Lightning Channels on my node are being used, which channels payments come in on and which channels are used for sending out sats. This will dramatically help me open and close channels and keep Lightning running. Managing the Lightning node is really a fiddly and somewhat annoying process. Hopefully better visibility on my own software will help make this easier.


## Thank you!

So thank you all for voting so far, and if you haven't voted, please take a look and perhaps encourage anyone else you can to vote this up.

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**[Support Proposal 222 on PeakD](https://peakd.com/me/proposals/222)
[Support Proposal 222 with Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B222%5D&approve=true)
[Support Proposal 222 on Ecency](https://ecency.com/proposals/222)**
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