Setting up a Bitcoin Lightning node on Ubuntu using litd (Lightning Terminal). Default path: Neutrino-backed single node (fast, no bitcoind needed). Also covers bitcoind-backed routing nodes and the remote signer architecture for production.
Reference for litd (Lightning Terminal) gRPC API in Go: managing accounts, baking macaroons, listing payments, and creating LNC sessions.
Working guide for LND + Taproot Assets gRPC in Go — authentication, asset amounts, channel data, pagination, and common gotchas discovered building a real wallet.
Navigation guide for the lnd (Lightning Network Daemon) Go codebase — where to find things, key patterns, and how subsystems connect.
Guide for building a Lightning Node Connect (LNC) web application using lnc-web
Build and configure the MCP server for Lightning Node Connect (LNC). Connects AI assistants to lnd nodes via encrypted WebSocket tunnels using pairing phrases — no direct network access or TLS certs needed. Read-only by default (18 tools for querying node state, channels, payments, invoices, peers, on-chain data).
Set up an lnd remote signer container that holds private keys separately from the agent. Exports a credentials bundle (accounts JSON, TLS cert, admin macaroon) for watch-only litd nodes. Container-first with Docker, native fallback. Use when firewalling private key material from AI agents.
Install and run Lightning Terminal (litd) which bundles lnd, loop, pool, tapd, and faraday in a single Docker container. Defaults to neutrino backend with SQLite storage on testnet. Supports watch-only mode with remote signer, standalone mode, and regtest development. Use when setting up a Lightning node for payments, channel management, liquidity management (loop), channel marketplace (pool), taproot assets (tapd), or enabling agent L402 commerce.