🚀 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:

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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 🙏

🚀 MiniBolt v2.1 Released! 🥳⬆️ A new MiniBolt update is now available, featuring improvements to MariaDB, Bitcoin Knots with RDTS (BIP110) support, the addition of missing Mempool GeoIP configuration steps and IPv4 APT handling, an updated Testnet guide, and much more. 📣 This release also marks an important milestone for the project: 📝New Release Versioning👇🏻 🆕 Starting with this release, future MiniBolt updates and changelogs will be managed through GitHub Releases using version tags in the vX.X format. 🔗 MiniBolt v2.1 Release Notes:

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Release MiniBolt v2.1 · minibolt-guide/minibolt

Release Versioning Starting with this release, future MiniBolt updates and changelogs will be managed through GitHub Releases using version tags in...

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📣New Mempool bonus guide!!🛁 @mempool 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 @Public-Pool : 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! 💙

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