Openoms, a serious educator in the bitcoin space has suggested the following service. I haven’t tried it but you can trust this guy when he’s excited about something. So, in order: Automated: Lightning network plus where you can join a ring, a triangle, a square, a pentagram, pretty much automates Read more…
Well, this is a guide we could have used a few months ago! Anyway, econoalchemist has written yet another guide on how to make a self-custodial lightning node with Raspiblitz, same as we have. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1408585171440340992.html You can read the full guide on econoalchemist’s blog. https://www.econoalchemist.com/post/build-a-self-custodial-lightning-node-with-raspiblitz Find Raspiblitz on the Fulmo Read more…
It can be daunting to choose a node to go with. I guarantee you that if you really want to learn about bitcoin, running a node is the best way how. You can tinker with it, sync the blockchain, validate your own transactions, even run your own lightning node. The Read more…
Since this took some time to figure out, I wanted to write down some tips that might help some people. Zeus lightning wallet is the best wallet for node owners. It’s also getting a sleek overhaul very soon, making it easily the top suggestion to anyone wanting to get in Read more…
I saw someone tweet about it and decided to give it a try. I generally try to explore all apps available on the Raspiblitz but it’s too much all at the same time. It’s best to load up one each time and go through it all, they can get quite Read more…
Vlad Costea posted this guide for the Lightning network, explaining a lot of the things about it, how to start, what the node options are, the works. Seriously, Vlad, I could have used this like 2 months ago. Anyway, better late than never, check out the guide and get educated. Read more…
I received my Raspiblitz node. It’s an out-of-the-box Raspberry Pi bitcoin node with Lightning support. As I’ve said in another post, I believe it’s the best project out there for many reasons. They’re open source, they educate people, they host events, they’re actively developing the Lightning network (Which still sucks Read more…
I mentioned that I ordered a Raspberry Pi node. Specifically this one from Fulmo https://shop.fulmo.org/product/raspiblitz-v1-6-2-golden-heatsink-case/?attribute_ram=8GB&attribute_presynched-blockchain=No RaspiBlitz. Not the one with the case, which has a fan and maybe I should have gone for that, but I really liked the golden heatsink on the other one. I chose Fulmo because they’re Read more…