specter-desktop
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets (by cryptoadvance)
lnd
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️ (by lightningnetwork)
| specter-desktop | lnd | |
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| 75 | 250 | |
| 787 | 7,497 | |
| -0.1% | 0.8% | |
| 6.4 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
lnd
Posts with mentions or reviews of lnd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
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Analyzing Bitcoin Transactions with Lightning Node Insights
Install LND: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#install-lnd Install Bitcoin Core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-windows.md#building-with-mingw-w64-cross-tools
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Simulate your first Lightning transaction on the Bitcoin regtest network Part 1 (MacOS)
To be able to follow along, you must have both bitcoind and lnd installed.
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If I connect a personal wallet to my Bitcoin Lightning node, do I have to open a channel?
If you want multiple users, you'll need multiple node instances. LNbits (mentioned by /u/sos755) does not implement this. Rather, it simply abstracts the funds associated with a single node into multiple logical accounts. This means that the node administrator still has underlying control of all funds associated with the node. See this GitHub discussion for a bit more info: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2652
- recommendations for a docker container
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I have a dedicated LN seed phrase on a metal seed storage and would like to import it into an LN wallet + would like to have a basic backup of LN data on an encrypted cloud = Which wallet can handle this? Any advice? Note: I don’t want to run an LN node right now.
LND doesn’t use BIP39 mnemonics. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/aezeed/README.md
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Advice/suggestions on running a BTC node (w/ lnd) on a Mac Mini 2018
Both Bitcoin Core and LND have binaries available for macOS, for example. I have not seen an actual guide to set everything up on macOS tho. It's quite similar to Linux honestly.
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How do you default LND to use Taproot and enable RBF (for on-chain transactions)?
As for taproot change addresses, this has been the default behaviour since version 0.15.5. Just update your lnd and you're all set.
- LND Channel Funds
- lnd v0.16.0-beta released! Huge update - bimodal pathfinding, fundpsbt changes, bug fixes, and more!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing specter-desktop and lnd you can also consider the following projects:
sparrow - Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
lightning - c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C
electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
lightning - Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
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.
seedsigner - Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions! (and do other cool stuff)
pytorch-lightning - Pretrain, finetune and deploy AI models on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
awesome-lnurl - A curated list of awesome lnurl things.
electrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
loop - Lightning Loop: A Non-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge