specter-desktop
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets (by cryptoadvance)
balanceofsatoshis
Tool for working with the balance of your satoshis on LND (by alexbosworth)
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| 75 | 39 | |
| 787 | 527 | |
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| 6.4 | 8.7 | |
| 1 day ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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specter-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of specter-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.
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Don't rush straight to another hardware signing device, learn the basics of Bitcoin self custody first [Serious]
https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow
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Running a BTC node (Citadel) - now what?
You can for example use it to run specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top for example, to use your hardware wallet with improved privacy or even mix them together to create multi-sig setups.
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What happens if Trezor, Ledger ect wont exist anymore?
Also, the functioning of your hardware wallet isn't dependent on this corporations still existing. There is various free and open source software that lets you manage your hardware wallet, and even combine them to make multi-sig wallets (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) . This lets you access all information via your own Bitcoin node, no third party system required, fully decentralized.
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Running Core as a wallet
Take a look at Specter Desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) , which is a web interface for Bitcoin Core that lets you use basically every hardware wallet directly with your node.
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
Specter Desktop v1.14.1 (Released: 08th December 2022) - https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases
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Why does everybody trust wallets so much?
Alternatively you can purchase multiple devices from different manufacturers and create a multisig wallet that requires multiple signatures from multiple devices. Wallet software like Specter-Desktop can help you with this. They also have a DIY signer https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy
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How safe is Ledger/Trezor really?
What you can do is to use one or more of this hardware wallets with your own node and a software like specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top. This way you are completely self sufficient.
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Ledger Error '0x6a80'
It is most likely an issue that is solved in the upcoming version of Specter; you might be interested in trying this prerelease, or wait for the official release: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.1-pre1
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Bitcoin Browser Wallet?
Specter runs in Electrum, but you can technically set it up to be run through a web browser, as long as you're hosting the service yourself.
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 May 16th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
Specter Desktop v1.9.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide UIUX: Overhaul of UTXO list, handling of locked UTXOs and scrollbar added to tx-table web component; + various bug fixes, chores and docs. See release page for full notes.
balanceofsatoshis
Posts with mentions or reviews of balanceofsatoshis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
- Is there a batch open channel limit?
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Rebalancing Channels
Additionally I use rebalance-lnd to rebalance channels manually. BOS can also rebalance as well as perfectly balanced.
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
Balance of Satoshis (bos) v12.35.2 (Released: 26th September 2022) - https://github.com/alexbosworth/balanceofsatoshis/tags
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The Lightning Network is fast, but it kinda sucks.
Are you using channel rebalancing tools at all? Like Balance of Satoshis, or rebalance-lnd? I really like the latter.
- Automate balancing with tools, is there good recent tutorial [end of 2022]?
- My first public node! Some advice on routing?
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown - 🌕 Feb 16th, 2022 ⚡ Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
Balance Of Satoshis v11.52.1 - Release page - Upgrade guide
- Lightning Network is User Unfriendly
- What are people using for uptime management?
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Is there a way to infer payment "trends" in the Lightning Network?
There's also balanceofsatoshis but I was unable to get it working 😥
What are some alternatives?
When comparing specter-desktop and balanceofsatoshis you can also consider the following projects:
sparrow - Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
raspiblitz - Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD
electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
rebalance-lnd - A script that can be used to balance lightning channels of a lnd node
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
lndmanage - Channel management tool for lightning network daemon (LND) operators.
seedsigner - Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions! (and do other cool stuff)
thunderhub - ThunderHub LND Lightning Node Manager in your Browser
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
raspibolt - RaspiBolt v3: Bitcoin & Lightning full node on a Raspberry Pi
electrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
RaspiBolt - RaspiBolt moved to https://raspibolt.org
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