How To Set Up A Watchtower For An Umbrel Bitcoin Lightning Node
This guide will show you how to quickly and easily protect your funds in your Bitcoin Lightning channel.The Lightning Network is a trustless* Layer 2 network for Bitcoin and brings forth many improvements in speed and cost of final settlement. I use an asterisk on trustless because although it is, there are a few caveats to take into consideration so that your funds are safe, aside from normal hot wallet risks. Watchtowers, which we’ll cover today, ensure that your funds are safe from malicious channel closures, which is one of the main risks of running a well-capitalized Lightning....
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Today Umbrel presented new research that showed 90% of the lightning nodes brought online in the last year run on the company’s software.
The easiest way to set up and run a Lightning Network node is with an out-of-the-box solution. The majority of full Bitcoin node products also run Lightning clients and they have condensed all of the essentials for running a node into small boxes — you just need to plug them in and follow prompts. ...
Umbrel partnered with The Bitcoin Machines to offer a plug-and-play all-aluminum node and server combo.
The capacity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network has short-circuited over the last three months to circa 3,400 BTC capacity, after surging throughout 2021, according to Arcane Research. Following an exponential climb in capacity over 2022, the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network made a lackluster start to the new year. According to a report by Arcane Research, growth in the Lightning Network capacity, or the number of BTC locked up in channels, has stuttered. The Lightning Network surged from 1,000 to 3,000 BTC in just 8 months in 2021, striking the 3,000 BTC mark in mid-October. While the....