lightning-address VS raspibolt

Ever heard of Lightning addresses?

Using Lightning in 2019 was a bit challenging but today, it's a cake walk. Everyone from kids to grandma can do it. You can turn your email address to a lightning address.

Phoenix, Breez, Bitkit are the best self custodial lightning wallets. Wallets like Zeus and Bluewallet let you host your own lndhub instance that you can share with family and friends and everyone can have their own lightning address, which can be just your email address.

There's an insane amount of innovation happening on Lightning from LSPs, DLCs, Stablesats, Lightning address, P2P markets, Zaps, privacy improvements like trampoline payments, route blinding... Best place to keep up would be Nostr.

Lightning Address

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3) Install Satdress https://github.com/andrerfneves/lightning-address/blob/master/BRIDGE.md you can skip this step and use existing one (for example payaddress.co btcadresse.de ln.fitti.io bitmia.com paymentlink.xyz tinytip.me sats.pm lnpay.cz getalby.com lnaddress.me lnaddress.net lightning.by lightning.re) but you need to trust them because yhey route request. Your LN adress would look like for example [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) if you install it in your VPS than your address will be @

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.