An Android app that runs a real, fully-validating Bitcoin node on your phone. Not a lightweight client. Not SPV. The actual bitcoind binary validating every transaction.
What it does:
- 4 Bitcoin implementations -- Choose Core 28.1, Core 30, Knots 29.3, or Knots with BIP 110 consensus enforcement. Switch with one tap, same chainstate
- 30-minute setup -- Copy chainstate from your home node over SSH. Zero to full node without waiting days for IBD
- Electrum server -- BWT runs alongside bitcoind. Connect BlueWallet or any Electrum wallet to your own phone
- Lightning ready -- Block filter index + Zeus Neutrino. Full sovereign Lightning stack, all localhost, no third parties
- Sovereign price discovery -- UTXOracle calculates BTC/USD from on-chain data alone. No exchange APIs, no trusted feeds
- Mempool viewer -- Fee estimates, projected blocks, transaction search. Your mempool, not mempool.space
- Battery aware -- Pauses sync when unplugged below 50%. Auto-starts on boot
- Runs on GrapheneOS -- Built for privacy-focused Pixel users
Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no trust required.
Looking for testers. Debug APK on the release page.
GitHub: https://github.com/FreeOnlineUser/bitcoin-pocket-node
Release: https://github.com/FreeOnlineUser/bitcoin-pocket-node/releases/tag/v0.5-alpha
LOL this is really stupid. Somebody had to say it to you.
Is like driving a Tesla with a diesel generator attached
This is the type of criticism I was worried about. Can you help me understand why it’s so bad?
A mobile device should not be a full node. That is stupid and useless.
OK you can have a LN app like Phoenix or Zeus, with a light private LN wallet to make some payments when is needed.
But having all that salad of bitcoin nodes, electrum, mempool crap and whatever NOT necessary software is really stupid.
A node must stay on a desktop machine, stable, reliable, always connected.
This app overcomes the burden of spending days trying to stand up a node, now in 20minutes for 11GB you have a pruned node up running. Its a breakthrough. Travel anywhere in the world with full privacy and sovereignty in your pocket, unburdened by infrastructure.
Your initial image is actually more accurate than I first realised, diesel is a baseload power like your home node, it’s very useful. Bitcoin pocket node can unhook from it as required and it provide the nimble electric car with all the freedom you need when you want it.
Or is it more like this?