charge-lnd
charge-lnd is a simple policy based fee manager for LND. With this tool you can set fees to autobalance, recover channel open costs, use on-chain fees as reference, use channel activity to determine fees or just use static fees. (by accumulator)
sparrow
Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source. (by sparrowwallet)
| charge-lnd | sparrow | |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 75 | |
| 223 | 1,151 | |
| - | 3.9% | |
| 5.0 | 9.5 | |
| 3 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
charge-lnd
Posts with mentions or reviews of charge-lnd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
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1st 100 Routing transactions!
and then follow the instructions from https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd/blob/master/INSTALL.md
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Automatic fee management tools/scripts/configs thread
I use charge-lnd to automatically rebalance by channels via fees. My charge.config is heavily inspired (stolen) by this article.
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Rebalancing Channels
I use charge-lnd to adjust fees proportionally to the channel state encouraging outflow if most the sats are on my side, and discouraging further outflow if most sats are already on the peer side.
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
charge-lnd v0.2.13 (Released: 23th November 2022) - https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd/releases
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How can you better manage your node's liquidity?
for LND, https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd can be configured to do this.
- Adjusting fees so channels don’t get sucked out so fast
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 May 16th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
Charge-lnd v0.2.11 - Release page- Upgrade guide add sum_peer_chans to proportional strategy to consider multiple channels to the same peer; docker: proper fallback for tls cert when TLS_CERT_PATH is empty string; allow using variables in config files; improve robustness w.r.t commas and whitespace in chan/node list files
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 Mar 18th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
charge-lnd v0.2.9 - Release page - Upgrade guide don't match channels on activity_period criteria if the channel is younger than the activity_period; add command parameters --tlscert and --macaroon; support SSL for electrum servers; fix error in fallback when a strategy returns an error
- Dynamic directional channel fees to incentivize transfers in the channel balancing direction
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Why “Fat Protocol Thesis” will be proven correct with Bitcoin and how we get over $1M soon
I made a bit more than OP on fees using my node, since I discovered charge-lnd to automate fees, see https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd and also do your research and open good channels to good routing nodes :)
sparrow
Posts with mentions or reviews of sparrow.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- Safe 3 and compatibility with Bitcoin wallets, sparrow, electrum and others
- Sparrow Wallet 1.7.7
- Bitcoin core wallet
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Desktop wallet with specific feature? (double spend)
I don't now if it will help you, but the latest SparrowWallet release lists
- Dedicated mobile bitcoin wallet with hardware support
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Is bluewallet the way to go here?
Exactly this. Blockstream Jade hardware wallet used with Sparrow wallet on a laptop with linux, to make transactions. Then Bluewallet for a watch-only wallet on your phone device.
- Cold storage with KYC BTC
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Have I lost my Bitcoin?
Its just well established, open source, well featured. While it is a wallet, here it just plays the role of interface. Yes, there are other apps for this, most notably Sparrow.
- Bitcoin beginner looking for the most secure cold storage wallet.
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Open source wallets
Sparrow has the best UI/UX in my experience, and it's completely open sourced. https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow
What are some alternatives?
When comparing charge-lnd and sparrow you can also consider the following projects:
rebalance-lnd - A script that can be used to balance lightning channels of a lnd node
specter-desktop - A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
plugins - Community curated plugins for core-lightning
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
raspibolt - RaspiBolt v3: Bitcoin & Lightning full node on a Raspberry Pi
joinmarket-clientserver - Bitcoin CoinJoin implementation with incentive structure to convince people to take part
zeus - A mobile Bitcoin wallet fit for the gods. ⚡️ Est. 563345
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
bitbox-wallet-app - The BitBoxApp for desktop and mobile.
firmware - ❄️ Firmware and simulator for Coldcard Hardware Wallet
RTL - Ride The Lightning - A full function web browser app for LND, C-Lightning and Eclair
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.