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Part IV: Get your own LND node running using BTCPay Server

Part IV might be a bit of a jump: you're going to move from everything being confined on the phone to hosting your own full Bitcoin node and LND (Lightning Network Daemon) node on a cloud server.

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Part III: Non-custodial wallet with Channel Management

The second wallet that we will be looking at is the Bitcoin Lightning Wallet which is a bit more advanced and requires you to handle your own channels:

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Part II: Non-Custodial Wallets

In the previous part of this series, we focused on using a custodial Lightning Network wallet. In this second part of the series we will focus on more advanced mobile wallets. These will be wallets that allow you to hold your own funds and not have to rely on third parties for that function.

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Part I of “Onboarding to the Lightning Network”

In part one of this series, the focus will be getting the newbie user from 0-1 using the Lightning Network and actually being productive with it. “Productive” in this context will be saving money. This is a use case that appeals to most people and it is a use case that resonates with me.

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Onboarding onto the Lightning Network

With my previous article focused on getting an LND node running on an Android Phone, I wanted to take a step back. My thought process was trying to create something a newbie user might get something out of.

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Getting LND running on an old Android Phone

Sometime in 2019 I was on Twitter reading about Lawrence Nahum’s ABCore. ABCore is an Android app that allowed someone to run a Bitcoin full node on their phone. My first thought was: Could I run LND on an Android phone?

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Adventures in the Lightning Network

One of my favorite Andreas Antonopoulos videos is where he introduces the Lightning Network and the concept of ‘streaming money’ in his highly inspiring way.

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Saga of Technology

Things are a bit of a dystopian pseudo-Utopian future where language is sterilized, anything considered bad for you is illegal, everyone is tracked by ‘biochips’ implanted in their hands, and Taco Bell is the only restaurant left standing after the great franchise wars.