This guide is dedicated for all those new users, that want to start learning about (LN) Lightning Network nodes and choose the right type of method for his own necessity.
Inside this guide you will find many links to many other specific guides. Please don’t ignore them. This guide is a guidance between all of them, to help you choose your best path through Lightning Network.
There’s a MISCONCEPTION around the new bitcoiners that you MUST run a dedicated public routing node in order to be able to do some LN payments.
These will be the questions we will try to answer in this guide:
- Why do you want to run a LN node?
- What type of hardware you will use?
- What type of software you could use?
- What type of node do you want to run (public or private)?
- To which node peers you should connect?
- How you will manage the channels liquidity?
Read the full guide on my substack:
Managing Lightning Node Liquidity - Methods, strategies, types, recommendations of how to start running a LN node and operate its liquidity.