Bonus Section
🚨 This section has not been updated to RaspiNail v2 yet. There might be some inconsistencies with the updated configuration, so handle with care!
Table of contents
- System overview
- Auto unlock LND on startup
- Anonymous node with Tor
- Electrum Personal Server
- Zap Desktop Lightning Wallet
- Zap iOS Lightning Wallet
- Shango Mobile Wallet
- lntop
- Pimp the command line
- Use lncli on a different computer
- System recovery
- Additional scripts: show balance & channels
- JoinMarket
- Even more Extras
In this section, you can find various optional topics that make your RaspiNail running even smoother. I split this up in various subsections, as the individual tasks can be quite long.
System overview
Difficulty: easy
Your RaspiNail will greet you with a quick system summary on login:
Auto unlock LND on startup
Difficulty: medium
Manually unlocking the LND wallet every time the system starts is not really feasible if your RaspiNail is meant to run reliably somewhere in a closet. This script automatically unlocks the wallet on startup or service-restart. This comes at a minimal security cost, however, as the password needs to be stored on the device.
Anonymous node with Tor
Difficulty: medium
Route all your Bitcoin traffic over the Tor network to stay anonymous and avoid leaking private information like your public IP address. Only for older configurations, the latest RaspiNail v2 has this already enabled by default.
Electrum Personal Server
Difficulty: medium
The RaspiNail is the perfect trustless Bitcoin backend for your regular on-chain transactions. Together with the Electrum wallet, it works even with your Ledger or Trezor hardware wallet. Mostly for older configurations, the latest RaspiNail v2 already has a full Electrum server included by default.
Zap Desktop Lightning Wallet
Difficulty: easy
The Zap desktop app (https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop) is a cross platform Lightning Network wallet focused on user experience and ease of use.
Zap iOS Lightning Wallet
Difficulty: medium
The Zap iOS app (https://zap.jackmallers.com) provides a neat interface for the RaspiNail to manage peers & channels, make payments and create invoices.
Shango Mobile Wallet
Difficulty: medium
The iOS & Android app Shango provides a neat interface for the RaspiNail, to manage peers & channels, make payments and create invoices.
lntop
Difficulty: easy
lntop is an interactive text-mode channels viewer for Unix systems.
Pimp the command line
Difficulty: easy
Make your command line prompt shine with a golden ฿ and use more colors overall:
Use lncli on a different computer
Difficulty: easy
Control your Lightning node from a different computer within you network, eg. from a Windows machine.
System recovery
Difficulty: easy
In case your microSD card gets corrupted or you brick your node, it’s handy to have a quick recovery image at hand. It’s not a full backup solution, but allows a system recovery.
Additional scripts: show balance & channels
Difficulty: easy
These additional bash scripts display a balance overview (on-chain & in channels, active & inactive) as well as a nicely formatted channels overview.
JoinMarket
Difficulty: advanced
JoinMarket is a CoinJoin software, which allows you to increase privacy and fungibility of on-chain Bitcoin transactions. It includes it’s own Bitcoin wallet, backed by bitcoind, and uses market maker / market taker model, which means that either you pay small fee for having CoinJoin privacy fast (taker) or just keep software running and then you get paid for providing liquidity for CoinJoin’s, in addition gaining privacy in a longer periods of time (maker).
Even if you aren’t interested in privacy of your coins, you can use JoinMarket for some little passive income from your bitcoins, without giving up your private keys.
JoinMarket on RaspiNail by Kristaps Kaupe
Even more Extras
RaspiNail-Extras by Rob Clark
- Lights-Out: automatic unlocking of wallet and dynamic ip
- RaspiBoltDuo: testnet & mainnet running simultaneously
- Using REST access
- Receiving Lightning payments: automatically create invoices / qr codes
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