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List of cool things you can do on Bitcoin Lightning Network
This is not a specific guide, is just a list of selected resources about Bitcoin Lightning Network. I put together this list so it can be easily shared among new users.
This list will be continuously maintained, once I find useful and interesting material. Yes, are many more apps, tools, guides etc but this is just a simple selection of those that are necessary for a new LN user to know and study.
Call this list a bootstrap of the “Lightning Bible”, maintained by Jameson Lopp.
Table of contents
Section A - Introduction to LN
Lightning Network General Information
Guides and Talks about Lightning Network
Video Tutorials about Lightning Nodes
Section B - Lightning apps and services
Tools, Explorers, Analyzers, Stats
Software Bundles, Applications, Merchant Solutions
Switch things on with sats, feeding animals
Earn sats, Various, Tasks, Services
Section A - General information and documentation about the Lightning Network
This list is dedicated to those that want to start running LN nodes, develop LN apps, bitcoin users that don’t know too much about Lightning Network.
Please don’t try to find a shortcut! Without reading and learning from these resources you will fail running your LN node! Do not ignore this warning, I am trying to help you by putting together the most important resources for you, so you will not have to spend days and days looking for the right information. I already did it for you.
⚡ A simple explanation of LN with airports analogy - Twitter thread by Danny Scott
⚡ An Overview of Lightning Network Implementations – by Fulgur Ventures
⚡ Lightning Network Resources, complete library about LN - by Jamesson Lopp
⚡ LND Documentation - by Lightning Engineering
⚡ CLN Documentation - by CLN team
⚡ CLN Community and Knowledge Base - by CLN Team
⚡ Lightning Node Management – by openoms, excellent guide (also in Spanish)!
⚡ Beginners LN Guide – by Bitcoin Q&A
⚡ Lightning Network Dev Curriculum – by Chaincode Labs, very good resources
⚡ Node recovery tools - by Guggero
⚡ Wiki Lightning Network – by ION Radar Tech
Guides and talks about the Lightning Network
⚡ What is a Bitcoin node - by Blockgeeks
⚡ Everything you need to know about LN – Till Musshoff
⚡ LN: The most efficient payment system in the world - by Bitcoin Magazine
⚡ How LN channels work – by Decentralized Thought
⚡ LN Channels Management – by Alex Bosworth
⚡ Chaincode Labs Youtube channel - a lot of presentations about LN
⚡ The power of valves for better flow control - by René Pickhardt
⚡ Multi-Part Payments, Zero Base Fee - with René Pickhardt
⚡ Evaluating Path finding Strategies on the LN - with René Pickhardt
⚡ Raspibolt Lightning Manual - by Raspibolt
⚡ Payment Channels and Lightning Network – by MIT OpenCourseWare
⚡ Tor-Only BTC/LN nodes – by Jameson Lopp
⚡ Lightning Liquidity Management Guide – by Jameson Lopp
⚡ 4 Tips to run a profitable LN node – by Erin Malone
⚡ A Comprehensive Guide to Lightning’s Atomic Multipath Payments (AMP)
Video Tutorials about LN nodes
⚡ Lightning Network explained – by René Pickhardt
⚡ Lightning Nodes Playlist - by BTC Sessions
⚡ Lightning Wallets Playlist - by BTC Sessions
⚡ Lightning Network Tutorials - by Jonathan Levi
⚡ Core Lightning Node - video playlist by 402 Payment Required
⚡ LND Lightning Node - video playlist by 402 Payment Required
⚡ Video tutorials about Lightning Nodes – by Ministry of Nodes
⚡ Getting started with LN channels – by Start9
Section B - Lists by category of Lightning apps and services
Here is a list of services and cool things you can do on Bitcoin Lightning Network.
This list will be updated periodically. If you want to propose a service that is not in the list just send the link to @DarthCoin
Let's start with this awesome list of services done with LNURL
And also The Lightning Address - amazing way to send/receive sats
Bitcoin Lightning Wallets
Comparison guide of LN wallets here.
⚡ Acinq - LN mobile wallet (discontinued)
⚡ Alby - LN browser extension, connect to own node and LNDHUB
⚡ Blixt wallet - full Neutrino LND node, LN Address, keysend, LSP
⚡ BlueWallet - custodial / non-custodial LN mobile/desktop wallet
⚡ Breez - LN mobile wallet, podcasting, LNURL, LN Address, keysend
⚡ CoinOS - Web LN wallet, swaps, PoS, good for merchants, LNURL, LN Address
⚡ Electrum - onchain and LN mobile wallet
⚡ Fully Noded - node management (only iOS)
⚡ Lightning App - desktop LND Neutrino node (discontinued)
⚡ Muun - LN mobile wallet, swaps
⚡ Nayuta Core - full Neutrino LND node
⚡ OBW Open Bitcoin Wallet - LN mobile node, LN address, LNURL, Hosted channels
⚡ Phoenix - LN mobile wallet, swaps
⚡ SBW Simple Bitcoin Wallet - LN mobile node, LN address, LNURL, Hosted channels
⚡ Spark - LN wallet, C-Lightning node management
⚡ Zap - LN desktop / mobile wallet, LND node management
⚡ Zebedee - nice simple LN wallet for gamers and social media
⚡ Zeus LN - LN node management, mobile wallet, LNDHUB, LN Address
Lightning Bots
⚡ LightningTipBot - Telegram bot based on LNbits backend
⚡ Cheese Robot - Telegram bot for node management
⚡ Ring of Fire GUI - tool for managing a ring group nodes
⚡ Ring of Fire Tools - Telegram bot to manage Rings of Fire
⚡ Lightning Address Bot - Telegram bot for your own LN Address
⚡ https://opreturnbot.com/ - send OP_RETURN tx onchain, paid with LN
Lightning Nodes Software, Bundles, hosting
⚡ LND LN Implementation Github
⚡ CLN LN Implementation Github
⚡ Eclair LN Implementation Github
⚡ RaspiBlitz node dedicated to Raspberry Pi devices - Github
⚡ RaspiBolt node for RPi devices - Github
⚡ myNodeBTC node bundle - Github
⚡ Embassy Start9 node bundle, based on RaspPi - Github
⚡ NODL Node bundle, plug’n’play and also hosted nodes
⚡ Umbrel node bundle, RPi and miniPC - Github
⚡ Citadel node bundle (fork of Umbrel) - Github
⚡ NixBitcoin - nixOS based BTC/LN node- Github
⚡ BTCPay Server LN node and accounting system for merchants
⚡ Voltage - hosted cloud Lightning node
⚡ https://blockstream.com/lightning/greenlight/ - hosted LN node
Tools, explorers, analyzers, stats
⚡ https://amboss.space - LN nodes Explorer, Billboard messaging, LN communities
⚡ Magma - LN channels Marketplace by Amboss
⚡ Mempool - BTC/LN explorer, stats
⚡ https://lnrouter.app - LN Tools for node operators
⚡ https://cheeserobot.org/ - LN explorer, tools, Telegram bot
⚡ https://lninsights.com - Map of LN nodes
⚡ http://ln-vis1.stuff.rof.tools/ - Beautiful visualizer of all nodes and channels
⚡ https://1ml.com/ - LN nodes browser
⚡ https://lightningnetwork.plus - Get LN liquidity in group swaps
⚡ https://terminal.lightning.engineering/ - Nice tool preview over your node
⚡ https://moneni.com/mcb/nodematch - tool that can recommend peers
⚡ https://lnnodeinsight.com/ - very good tool to analyze your node and peers
⚡ https://lnrouter.app/graph - Visualizing the nodes and channels
⚡ https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning - graphs and stats about LN
⚡ https://lightningboost.info/ - inbound liquidity, Watchtower provider
⚡ https://lndecode.com/ - Lightning Network invoice decoder
⚡ https://lightningdecoder.com/ - Lightning invoice decoder
⚡ https://bolt.observer/ - Monitoring and management of your nodes in one platform
Software bundles, applications, solutions
⚡ https://lnbits.com - LN extensions accounting / services on top of your LN node
⚡ https://thunderhub.io/ - LND node management web tool
⚡ https://www.ridethelightning.info/ - LND and CLN node management web tool
⚡ https://github.com/nbd-wtf - Collection of open source LN software
⚡ https://lnshort.it/ - Allows you to pay for redirects and fund with an lnurl.
⚡ https://github.com/apotdevin/NextPay - a personal lnurl tipping server
⚡ https://github.com/pseudozach/redphone - private phone calls over LN
⚡ https://sphinx.chat/ - Secured chat over LN, podcasting on LN
⚡ https://satoshis.stream/ - be paid for your podcasts in sats
⚡ https://www.getjuggernaut.com/ - Secured chat over LN, wallet LN (discontionued)
⚡ https://finalmessage.io - LN for automatic "afterlife" message
⚡ https://lightningdecoder.com - Decode LN requests
⚡ https://lightninglogin.live - Test LNURL-Auth
⚡ https://lightningpolar.com - Create LN testing setups
⚡ https://github.com/bucko13/lit-subscriptions - p2p subscription/donation system
⚡ RoboSats - Build your own P2P exchange over LN, private, Tor support
⚡ https://webLN.dev - library for lightning apps and client providers
⚡ https://chat.blixtwallet.com/ - anonymous chat paid with LN
⚡ https://fountain.fm/ - listen podcasts with LN, earn sats listening
⚡ https://lnproxy.org/ - use a proxy to receive a LN invoice
⚡ https://lnvortex.com/ - Lightning and Taproot enabled collaborative transactions
Feeding animals, Switch things with sats
⚡ https://pollofeed.com/ - pay sats to feed chickens, live
⚡ https://www.twitch.tv/tanglesheep - feed some sheep with sats on LN, Livestream
⚡ Lightning Cats - Send sats to switch on things for cats
⚡ https://satoshkey.com/ - pay sats and a toy train it start moving
⚡ LED powered by Lightning - pay sats to turn on a song and lights by Rebel Money
Fun, Games
⚡ https://launcher.elixir.app/
⚡ https://zebedee.itch.io/bitcoin-rally
⚡ https://www.hangarsixgaming.com/
⚡ https://lightning-roulette.com/
⚡ https://www.lnblackjack.com/
⚡ https://lightningpuzzle.com/
⚡ https://t.me/lnclub - Rock Paper Scissors game in Telegram with LN
⚡ https://bitcoinfortunecookie.com/ - buy a fortune cookie with sats
⚡ https://www.lnbingoapp.com/ - play Bingo with Lightning
⚡ https://satlantis.net/ - Play Minecraft with Lightning sats
⚡ https://games.gamertron.net/satsman-game/ - Play SatsMan against shitcoins
Services, earn sats, tasks, various
⚡ https://stacker.news - News aggregator, login and tip with LN
⚡ https://btcoriginstories.com/ - Pay per vid or unlock and watch each story
⚡ https://microlancer.io - Tasks market, earn sats on LN
⚡ https://www.stakwork.com - Tasks market, earn sats on LN
⚡ https://scarce.city - LN Auctions
⚡ https://bitcoinfax.net/ - Send fax (yeah the old fax!) with LN
⚡ https://lightning.gifts - Create LN vouchers
⚡ https://silent.link - Burner 4G eSIM paid with LN
⚡ https://agora.download - Pay for downloads with LN
⚡ https://lnpay.co - Create LN paywalls and faucets
⚡ https://ln.cash - Send QR voucher, supported by all wallets
⚡ https://www.lightningjobs.app - jobs panel related with LN
⚡ https://www.earncarrot.com/ - earn sats doing tasks, surveys
⚡ https://goingdutch.pm/ - split payment bill using LN
⚡ https://lightningbutton.com/ - advertise your lightning app on a button
⚡ https://lightning.video/ - livestream or upload videos and earn sats
⚡ https://www.lightning.movie/ - pay 1k sats per view, to watch movies
⚡ https://starbackr.com/ - content creators paid with sats
⚡ https://www.oshi.tech/ - earn Bitcoin rewards
⚡ https://future.travel/ - buy travel tickets using LN (LN ATM on premise too)
⚡ https://secretsatsa.com/ - This holiday season, spend some sats for someone else!
⚡ https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/ - Top-up Mullvad VPN using Lightning
⚡ https://lnvpn.net/ - Pay sats on LN for VPN directly in browser, no account
⚡ https://geyser.fund/ - crowdfunding projects on Lightning
⚡ https://sms4sats.com - Send SMS, pay with LN
⚡ https://www.lnesim.com/ - buy eSIM with BTC/LN. No KYC or email required.
⚡ https://ln-sms.com/ - Anonymously receive SMS verification codes for any service
⚡ https://lnsms.world/ - Send texts worldwide and pay with Lightning
⚡ https://www.wavlake.com/ - pay sats to listen music directly from artists
⚡ https://tipybit.com/ - webpage tipping wallet
⚡ https://laisee.org/ - Send a Laisee little red envelopes with sats to anybody
⚡ https://widgets.twentyuno.net - create your own LN donation widget for a web
⚡ https://nakaphoto.vercel.app/- Sell images for sats with your LN Address
⚡ https://wordform.space/ - Post blogs articles with paywall
⚡ https://satsoverflow.io/ - Ask questions, rewards in sats
⚡ https://www.getmash.com/ - Earn more for what you build
⚡ https://www.stacksats.how/ - collection of solutions to stack sats for content creators
⚡ https://www.sats4likes.com/ - Buy "REAL" likes & followers & retweets for your SM
⚡ https://kriptode.com/ - Building things with Lightning for fun & microprofit
⚡ https://lncoffee.me/ - Share a Beer, Invite a Coffee, Show your Support, tips
⚡ https://vida.page/ - Space for people to connect via paid messages, calls, live streams
⚡ https://satsforads.net/ - receive ads on your LN address and get sats
⚡ https://eaglesats.com/ - receive ads on your LN address and get sats
⚡ https://satogram.xyz/ - receive ads on your LN address and get sats
Merchants lists
⚡ https://btcmap.org/ - online map and app with physical merchant locations
⚡ https://btcmap.org - merchants real-time worldwide map
⚡ https://bitrefill.com/ - recharge virtual cards/credits, pay bills
⚡ https://bitcart.io/ - recharge virtual cards/credits, pay bills
⚡ https://acceptlightning.com/ - List LN stores
⚡ https://lightningnetworkstores.com/ - List of merchants accepting LN
⚡ https://bitcoin-vps.com/ - Massive list of Bitcoin-friendly VPS providers
⚡ https://directory.btcpayserver.org/merchants/ - BTCPay Merchants List
⚡ https://bitcoinwide.com/ - Who accepts Bitcoin/LN
Exchanges, swaps, satsback
⚡ Github page with curated list of exchanges that support LN
⚡ A curated list with more exchanges here from which we mention these apps:
⚡ https://boltz.exchange - swaps LN ←→ onchain, also available within LNbits
⚡ https://deezy.io - easy swaps LN ←→ onchain, also available within LNbits
⚡ https://zigzag.io - Swap LN sats to onchain
⚡ https://submarineswaps.org - Swap sats onchain to LN
⚡ https://fixedfloat.com - Swap LN to onchain BTC
⚡ https://swap.diamondhands.technology/ - Swap LN to onchain BTC
⚡ https://t.me/myloopoutbot - Telegram bot for swaps
⚡ iPayBlue - swap services LN ←→onchain
⚡ https://lnurl-pay.me - Send fiat with LN to VISA cards
⚡ https://paywithmoon.com - VISA card paid by LN, no KYC
⚡ https://river.com - Easy BTC DCA, withdraw to LN
⚡ https://strike.me - simple, LN wallet, exchange
⚡ https://azte.co - BTC/LN vouchers, no KYC
⚡ https://t.me/BitcoinVoucherBot - Azte.co Telegram Bot buy BTC on LN
⚡ https://xsats.com/ - (only UK) simple, KYC, LN supported
⚡ https://pocketbitcoin.com/ - buy BTC with LN, non-custodial
⚡ https://foldapp.com/ - sats back, VISA card
⚡ https://stekking.com/ - sats back for every purchase
⚡ https://lnmarkets.com/ - trade on Lightning Network
⚡ https://pro.kollider.xyz/ - trade derivatives on Lightning Network
⚡ RoboSats - P2P Full private Exchange over Tor, over LN
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