Setting up a Lightning node

Off the shelf

• Casa has an off-the shelf lightning node
• NODL node
• Node on RaspberryPi with a nice LCD
• Lightning in a box

Do it Yourself

Currently there are a handful of different implementation of the BOLT standard. The various nodes from the different vendors or development teams are (or should be) compatible. See the following list and links for more information on setting up a node.

• Lnd by Lightning Labs, source code
• Eclair by ACINQ, source code
• C-lightning by Blockstream, source code
• Guide to Lightning on a Raspberry Pi

Install help

• Cyphernode An open-source self-hosted API which allows you to spawn and call your encrypted overlay network of dockerized Bitcoin and crypto software projects (virtual machines).
• Node Launcher by Pierre Rochard