There’s a Mexican standoff in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Lightning routing operators face a coordination failure where each waits for others to pay rebalancing fees first, and the network shows strain: capacity has slipped from a December 2025 peak near 5,600 BTC to 4,884 BTC, with channels down to about 45,000.
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