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raspibolt
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I've opened my first LN Channel
For those interested in setting up a their own lightning node, check out Raspibolt, Umbrel, Plebnet .
- So I finally run my own node
- Unconfirmed balance and pending open balance - RaspiBolt
- Done syncing my full node. What's next?
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POLL: Best Lightning Wallet (noncustodial)
That said, the benefits of using and understanding lnd directly are huge. I strongly recommend the raspibolt tutorial to anybody who is willing to learn to run a simple linux system via command line.
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Is my Bitcoin Node operational?
So overall I recommend you to start from the scratch using at least a 1TByte SSD, better 2. And either follow https://raspibolt.org/ for full sovereignty. Or if that seems too difficult for you look into https://raspiblitz.org/.
- Questions for a Bitcoin Expert
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Guide to build a node
If you want an actual guide with a lot of the bells and whistles explained I recommend https://raspibolt.org/
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A new full node is born.
The main sources of information to build my full node are Ministry Of Nodes’ video tutorials on YouTube and the incredible RaspiBolt guide. Both have been very useful to get me started in this beautiful project, but I faced some issues every now and then due to the fact that I was dealing with newer versions of the apps and things didn’t work out of the box all the time so I had to RTFM here and there.
- Bitcoin full node
specter-desktop
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Don't rush straight to another hardware signing device, learn the basics of Bitcoin self custody first [Serious]
https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow
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Running a BTC node (Citadel) - now what?
You can for example use it to run specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top for example, to use your hardware wallet with improved privacy or even mix them together to create multi-sig setups.
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What happens if Trezor, Ledger ect wont exist anymore?
Also, the functioning of your hardware wallet isn't dependent on this corporations still existing. There is various free and open source software that lets you manage your hardware wallet, and even combine them to make multi-sig wallets (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) . This lets you access all information via your own Bitcoin node, no third party system required, fully decentralized.
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Running Core as a wallet
Take a look at Specter Desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) , which is a web interface for Bitcoin Core that lets you use basically every hardware wallet directly with your node.
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
Specter Desktop v1.14.1 (Released: 08th December 2022) - https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases
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Why does everybody trust wallets so much?
Alternatively you can purchase multiple devices from different manufacturers and create a multisig wallet that requires multiple signatures from multiple devices. Wallet software like Specter-Desktop can help you with this. They also have a DIY signer https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy
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How safe is Ledger/Trezor really?
What you can do is to use one or more of this hardware wallets with your own node and a software like specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top. This way you are completely self sufficient.
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Ledger Error '0x6a80'
It is most likely an issue that is solved in the upcoming version of Specter; you might be interested in trying this prerelease, or wait for the official release: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.1-pre1
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Bitcoin Browser Wallet?
Specter runs in Electrum, but you can technically set it up to be run through a web browser, as long as you're hosting the service yourself.
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 May 16th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
Specter Desktop v1.9.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide UIUX: Overhaul of UTXO list, handling of locked UTXOs and scrollbar added to tx-table web component; + various bug fixes, chores and docs. See release page for full notes.
What are some alternatives?
raspiblitz - Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD
sparrow - Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.
electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
umbrel-os - umbrelOS for Raspberry Pi 4 (only). Covert your Raspberry Pi into a home server in one click. For other hardware, checkout https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
seedsigner - Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions! (and do other cool stuff)
mynode - The easiest way to run Bitcoin and Lightning!
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
BTCPay Server - Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor.
electrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust