bitbox02-firmware VS raspibolt

I'm looking at this, you can see a comparison when you scroll down: https://bitbox.swiss/bitbox02/

Bitbox02 - https://bitbox.swiss/bitbox02/

I also implemented BIP-85 just recently.

Here's the repository for the firmware of BitBox02: https://github.com/digitalbitbox/bitbox02-firmware

Complementary to that, you can also download the official release from https://github.com/digitalbitbox/bitbox02-firmware/releases and install it manually using command line tools, after verifying it is legit by reproducing it. Or build the app yourself after checking that the bundled firmware is correct.

At the bottom of this page, they concisely explain what they mean for each entry in the table and why they give that specific score. For this in particular, they consider the setup easier because you can backup to an (offline) SD card instead of writing it down manually.

I decided on this: https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/

There you go: https://github.com/digitalbitbox/bitbox02-firmware/pull/1069

The firmware code is open source and can be found here. The official releases are built from this code in a reproducible fashion. The community is able to verify that currently the only two ways of exporting the seed are via the 24 words displayed on the BitBox02 screen or onto a microSD card inserted directly into the device. If there are other unintended ways, it might be a bug, and should be sent to us as part of our bug bounty program.

For those interested in setting up a their own lightning node, check out Raspibolt, Umbrel, Plebnet .

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.

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/.

If you want an actual guide with a lot of the bells and whistles explained I recommend https://raspibolt.org/

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.