⚡️ Run Your Bitcoin Lightning Network Node Like a PRO!

[@Bitcoinftm]

Thanks for watching! I'd love to hear of any of YOUR favorite tools/services/apps for Lightning Network, or which was your favorite from this video?

[@benfranklinskite5975]

My new go-to channel for mentorship on how I can contribute to the development of layer 2. Thanks Jonathan for sharing your experience.

[@Bitcoinftm]

Very welcome!

[@don.mccracken]

Great video, thanks! It would be even greater if you could make another video about how to install these tools from scratch for people who use Umbrel etc. I see you talk about Docker, so maybe we need to install that first? But even that is pretty advanced when you don't understand exactly what it does etc.

[@Bitcoinftm]

Good call. I tried to link to some guides in the description but maybe I'll do some videos about it!

[@don.mccracken]

@@Bitcoinftm OK, great! I checked out the guides in the description but they all assumed some previous level of knowledge of how to access the innards of your RPi's OS from another computer, i.e. SSH, Docket etc. And many of us who came to Lightning through Umbrel, don't have that knowledge. I personally use Terminal in macOS quite frequently, but to use it to access another computer is next level for me. 😀 And I don't want to do command line stuff when I don't really understand what is happening, since it can really screw things up if you do something incorrectly. 😀 So thank you again for the excellent videos!

[@Bitcoinftm]

@@don.mccracken This guide someone put up is pretty good explaining exactly what to do from where How to automatically update your routing fees via Umbrel (or any other dockerized node)

[@don.mccracken]

@@Bitcoinftm Thanks! I'll definitely check it out!

[@diegobojorquez9892]

@@Bitcoinftm also interested in LNTop tutorial for umbrel 🙏🏼

[@jeremyhill9670]

You've been really helpful to starting my own node thanks mate

[@Bitcoinftm]

Glad to hear it!

[@MyNegativeCreep]

Will you make tutorials for those how to install etc?

[@PiriyaSambandaraksa]

Is there a guide on the best way to install and run lntop on an Umbrel RPi4 node?

[@Bitcoinftm]

Nope. Maybe I'll make/do one :)

[@sutthiguy1584]

Thank You

That Telegram bot looks cool but I'm worried about privacy and security of it. Would be nicer to use Signal or something similar.

[@thenextlayer]

I hear you. Though, I kind of trust Telegram, to be honest. More than Facebook, at least.

[@Bitcoinftm]

what he said!

I'm conflicted. Heard strong claims either way from multiple interesting sources. I lean towards Telegram is not good. Anyway, I wouldn't dare to suggest FB. I suggest Signal which is clearly better than anything else.

[@jmartirosyan]

could you do a video on how best use cases for BOS?

[@Bitcoinftm]

I've been thinking about it... Might do that soon, though I only use it for the Telegram bot ;)

[@DFDrespii]

I’m looking for how much I can get of doing a good node.. 3% 4% 5% of my balance, what is the potencial profit?

[@Bitcoinftm]

I have a video coming out about this this week, make sure you're subbed.

[@RedBricksTraffic]

This was insightful, but I'm still not entirely sure how to go about installing apps like lntop and charge-lnd into my umbrel node.

[@Bitcoinftm]

Full tutorial here: How to automatically update your routing fees via Umbrel (or any other dockerized node)

[@jinko47]

@@Bitcoinftm Where is the tutorial? Maybe there used to be a link but it doesn't work anymore? Tried to install lntop on umbrel using ssh but got stuck when actually trying to run the lntop command.

[@rsevergnini]

why did you stop with the videos?

[@axnoro]

How do you run code on Umbrel?

[@Bitcoinftm]

Depends on the code?

[@BTC_Solo]

Hi Jonathan what is your PUK of your lightning node ill open channel with you and we take it from there. Thanks

[@Bitcoinftm]

I keep it a secret in light of recent developments…. Sorry ;)

[@BTC_Solo]

@@Bitcoinftm I understand and no worries 😉 good luck

[@don.mccracken]

@@Bitcoinftm Hi Jonathan, what recent developments are you talking about? Hacking attacks? Should we be wary of giving out the public key to our node?

[@Bitcoinftm]

Nope, recent developments = the government trying to force node runners to KYC ;) (The US Infrastructure bill)

[@BTC_Solo]

Great video but tbh is advanced for me, Id love to do the telegram connection but I wouldn't be able its so technical for me. I am new just sat up my node last week on Umbrel

[@Bitcoinftm]

Hey! I totally get it, I was there a few months ago... but you will learn. There's pretty good explanations for BalanceOfSatoshi's on the Github I linked, and a FULL guide on Charge-LND for you, too (step by step) in the link I gave. It will take some tinkering and trial and error, but in time I'm sure you can get it :) I'll try to do some more guides in the future hopefully.

[@BTC_Solo]

@@Bitcoinftm i watched your last 2 video twice and they are very informative and many thanks for the great work. It would be highly appreciative if you give us some time and do it with many thanks. A

[@SkyBound2024]

great videos but please balance your intro music! Kills my ears every time 🎧

[@Bitcoinftm]

yikes will tell my editor lol :)

[@shreyashbhakare1648]

How much we can earn with such nodes ??

[@Bitcoinftm]

I did a video on it, check it out :)