🚀 MiniBolt v2.3 Released! 🥳⬆️ A new update is now available, which includes an improved installation flow for Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots with tabbed navigation, a comprehensive Bitcoin Knots guide, a new "Advertise Your Onion Service" section and configuration improvements in the mempool guide, updated LND configuration options, new guidelines for troubleshooting ThunderHub and Mempool issues, a new free Mempool service, an improved installation flow for Public Pool, and some minor fixes, optimizations, and improvements to the documentation. See the complete release notes on:

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Release MiniBolt v2.3 · minibolt-guide/minibolt

What's new Added a troubleshooting note to the ThunderHub guide to fix the LND connection error caused by an expired TLS REST certificate. Added a...

🚀 MiniBolt v2.2 Released! 🥳⬆️ A new MiniBolt update is now available, featuring a new Frigate bonus guide (by @🐗j4b4t0 ), a dedicated Tor onion address, incorporation of Bitcoin Knots as a reference alternative Bitcoin client throughout the guide, Lightning Client: LND v0.21.0, and numerous guide improvements, optimizations, compatibility updates, documentation fixes, and project-wide refinements. See the complete release notes on:

GitHub

Release MiniBolt v2.2 · minibolt-guide/minibolt

What's new Added a new Frigate bonus guide, original author @j4b4t0. To improve privacy, sovereignty, and censorship resistance, the guide is now ...

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🚀 MiniBolt is now available through Tor hidden services 🧅 With the goal of improving privacy, sovereignty, and censorship resistance, the guide is now accessible via a .onion address. http://miniboltgbsvmnrowjvjmslh2imy47bsmms4azn73fvtcudbjr32ghqd.onion 🥷 Cypherpunk mode: enabled 💙 Full credit and many thanks to the great @ꓘɨℓσꬺƄɨP110ꓘɳσ[Ŧƨ] 𓅦丰 🙏

📣New Mempool bonus guide!!🛁 @npub18d4r...6lt3 is a blockchain explorer, mempool visualizer, and API service, all-in-one. 📍 Link to the guide ->

Mempool | MiniBolt

🗄 Also, check the associated MariaDB bonus guide, the database required for the Mempool backend ->

MariaDB | MiniBolt

Original author, and thanks to @🐗j4b4t0 🧙 💙Enjoy it, MiniBolter!💙

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📣 New LND Extra Guides + Bonus Guide and More!! 🆕 ⚡️New LND extra section guides: 🔐 Open a Channel with External Funding — coordinated via lncli, signing with an external hardware/software wallet:

3.1 Lightning client: LND | MiniBolt

🧩 Recover the BIP32 Master Extended Private Key — using chantools for your internal LND wallet or external hardware/software wallet:

3.1 Lightning client: LND | MiniBolt

🛠 Unlock the LND wallet manually — reduce attack surface by not storing your wallet password in plaintext:

3.1 Lightning client: LND | MiniBolt

🧰New LND Operational Tooling bonus guides: ➕ Dedicated bonus guide for lndinit:

lndinit | MiniBolt

🆕 Added chantools bonus guide:

chantools | MiniBolt

🧱Other Updates: 🪢Bitcoin Knots [Compiling from source code option steps] + 🩹 UA patch updated 🆙 to the latest version:

Bitcoin Knots | MiniBolt

🆙 ThunderHub updated with the new UI (prefer the old look? use versions ≤ v0.15.2) — along with other services, all upgraded to the latest versions:

3.3 Web app: ThunderHub | MiniBolt

🏗 Other fixes and improvements 🎨 New branding crafted by the talented @🐗j4b4t0 🐗 💙Enjoy it, MiniBolter!💙

📣 New Public Pool bonus guide!! ⛏️ By @npub1wtgd...sxp2 : A solo mining pool with a lightweight and easy-to-use web interface. 📍 Link to the guide: ~>

Public Pool | MiniBolt

<~ Original author, and thanks to @🐗j4b4t0 🧙 Enjoy it, MiniBolter! 💙

🪧⚡️LND Update: v1.19.3 → v0.20.0 🚀⬆️ This is a major release that introduces significant changes, including a recommended database migration for optimization purposes for nodes using PostgreSQL as their database backend ( db.backend=postgres in lnd.conf ). ⚠️ The new parameter `db.use-native-sql=true` must be added to lnd.conf under the [db] section. See the DIFF checker ~>

db.use-native-sql_lnd - Diffchecker

# MiniBolt: lnd configuration # /data/lnd/lnd.conf [Application Options] # The alias your node will - Text Comparison

💡 Remember to restart the service to apply the changes to the LND configuration. Follow Example 2 in this reminder:

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⚡2F4kT0r⚡ in MiniBolt

📝 Reminder: Every time you update any service configuration, you must restart the service in question for the changes to take effect. If the ch...

Example of expected output: [...] lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:08:45.235 [INF] CHDB: Applying 2 optional migrations lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:08:45.235 [INF] CHDB: Checking for optional update: name=prune_revocation_log lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:08:45.235 [INF] CHDB: Checking for optional update: name=gc_decayed_log [...] [3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:08:47.309 [INF] SQLD: Applying custom migration 'kv_graph_migration' (version 10) to schema version 8 lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:08:47.309 [INF] GRDB: Starting migration of the graph store from KV to SQL lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:09:33.249 [INF] GRDB: Migrated 15482 nodes from KV to SQL in 45.938605692s (skipped 0 nodes due to invalid TLV streams or invalid addresses) [...] lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:11:16.531 [INF] GRDB: Migrated 59440 closed SCIDs from KV to SQL in 16.318037339s lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:13:11.855 [INF] GRDB: Migrated 252925 zombie channels from KV to SQL in 1m54.324016701s nd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:13:11.856 [INF] GRDB: Finished migration of the graph store from KV to SQL in 4m23.546556407s minibolt2fa lnd[3361292]: 2025-11-21 20:13:11.856 [INF] SQLD: Migration 'kv_graph_migration' (version 10) applied [...] ⏳ This process could take a few minutes, depending on the size of the database and the performance of your computer. Be patient and enjoy 💙

📣 New Alby Hub bonus guide!! 🐝 By @Alby : A self-custodial, open source Lightning wallet that connects to apps. 📍Link to the guide: ~>

Alby Hub | MiniBolt

Original author, and thanks to @🐗j4b4t0 🧙 Enjoy it, MiniBolter! 💙

Finishing the Fulcrum database migration after upgrading from v1.12.0 to 2.0 in 🔴live🔴 on zap.stream! Join us:

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