raspibolt VS joinmarket-clientserver

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.

It's complicated. The more steps you take to obfuscate your transaction, the harder it will be for an adversary to track your coins. You can look into using something like the JoinMarket Wallet to keep your transaction more private.

You can use coinjoin services like joinmarket to anonymize your coins. You can also send them through a lightning swap.

This is a bitcoin service delivered in a low trust manner where the bitcoin user need only utilize software they run and control for the services and can protect themselves from malicious third parties with very little trust or consequence from peers. This is the gold standard of Bitcoin service. Examples include lightning routing, lightning liquidity marketplaces like pool, coinjoins like joinmarket, coinswaps, submarine swaps like loop and others.

If you want to play with OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, you can use the wallet in JoinMarket to create a fidelity bond. Be careful, though, because it's absolutely impossible to spend such a bond until its expiration.

I opened a GitHub issue - https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1349.