guides VS BTCPay Server

for server hardware i use https://github.com/seth586/guides/blob/master/FreeNAS/bitcoin/README.md but it's not a user friendly package

For those running FreeNas/TrueNas this guide is an excellent resource for standing up a Bitcoin/Lightning node https://github.com/seth586/guides/tree/master/FreeNAS/bitcoin

Here is a guide for a more powerful setup than the typical Raspberry Pi nodes: https://github.com/seth586/guides/blob/master/FreeNAS/bitcoin/README.md

Have you looked into zfs? Here is a guide using it on TrueNas but I believe it could be set up on a pi if desired.

My home lab is a TrueNAS server I put together with used parts about a year ago. While I've been running a bitcoin full node for years in a Linux VM, I ported it to a FreeBSD jail when I setup the server at the time. It wasn't a big stretch to throw a lightning server on top of that. Incidentally, after setting up my lightning node, I discovered that someone else had essentially done the same thing: https://github.com/seth586/guides/tree/master/FreeNAS/bitcoin. That guide inspired me to get RTL up and running for a pretty GUI.

Bitcoin users abandoned bitpay about six years ago during the blocksize wars, because they joined the bcash attack. Now anyone that wants to accept bitcoin payments, and especiallly through lightning, uses the open-source btcpay.

> It was also an interesting learning experience, implementing it was much harder than we anticipated and I hope others in the same position can benefit from our learnings.

Well done, never mind that guy, he clearly has an axe to grind and doesn't seem to grasp very much other than his out of touch talking points: did you look into using BTCPAY [0] server?

Things are still not as easy as they should, but have seriously advanced in the last few years.

0: https://btcpayserver.org/

Game changer for us is BTCPay Server since a big point of crypto is removing banks/middlemen. Rock solid and bitcoin goes directly to our wallet that we control the private keys for. No Coinbase. No Bitpay. Just actual bitcoin. Highly recommended

Since the transaction which would be running are not going to be that large of a quantities where each and every % matters, I think it would be safer to go with something like nodeless as referred. For some larger operations https://btcpayserver.org/ would be somewhat better. Thank you for the help!

Did you teach them about lightning? BTCPay Server?

Merchant using BTCPay Server