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Lightning Node Management
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  • Contents
  • Lightning basics
  • Create inbound liquidity
  • Create outbound liquidity
  • Comparison table of software implementations
  • Comparison table of lightning channel markets
  • Node Types
    • Merchant
    • Spending
    • Routing
  • Advanced Tools
    • lnd.conf example
    • Advanced and automated fee settings
    • Set up an LND watchtower and connect a client
    • Methods to create a balanced channel with a trusted peer
    • Pool usage notes
    • Bos Score
  • Technicals
    • Connecting to a lightning node remotely
    • High onchain fee environment
    • Compact the LND database (channel.db)
    • Manage the LND onchain funds in Electrum Wallet
  • Recovery
    • Resources for LND
    • Resources for Core Lightning
  • Privacy
    • Resources on Lightning privacy
    • VPN tunnels
  • Hardware deployment
    • Hardware recommendations
    • RaspiBolt
    • RaspiBlitz
      • charge-lnd
      • Balance of Satoshis Telegram Bot
      • LND updates
      • Bitcoin Core updates
      • VPN and firewall setup
    • TrueNAS (FreeBSD) node
      • aliases
      • Balance of Satoshis
      • Lightning Terminal
      • Circuitbreaker
      • LNtop
      • LND notes
      • stream-lnd-htlcs
      • Suez
      • Tailscale
      • Connect Zeus
  • Donate
    • Donations
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  • Capital requirement
  • Channels and peers
  • Liquidity
  • Uptime
  • Management
  • Examples

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  1. Node Types

Spending

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Aimed for spending bitcoin cheaply and privately.

Capital requirement

  • low

  • depends on spending plan and available funds

  • allows to use up unmixed funds without creating change

Channels and peers

  • one channel to a well connected, capitalized and high uptime node is a good start, see the , or to pick a peer

  • use private channels to avoid publishing the node and the funding transactions

  • offline private channels don't damage the reliability of the network

Liquidity

  • mostly local

Uptime

  • not a factor (spend only when online)

Management

  • close depleted channels

  • starting a new node often improves the onchain privacy

Examples

Privacy oriented:

Use for social media like

Discussion:

Bos list
Lightning Terminal
Amboss.space
can refill via LN
Self hosted node on dedicated hardware
slides about Running a Lightning Node Privately
Sphinx chat
https://github.com/raspiblitz/raspiblitz/issues/2073
Mobile wallets