I installed Eclair Mobile and to receive LN it says i cant stay 2 weeks without connecting the phone to internet, what happens if i stay more than 2 weeks disconnected, i can lost LN funds?

Hi, i was reading your FAQ and i see that two contradictory sentences, please review that.
I watch too that in future LN will have Dual funded channels (both parties will be able to fund a channel) thats why i cant receive money, i thought all the channels was dual funded, that way i can run a node without putting any money IN and dont risk to loose money, is that right?

Thanks for drawing my attention to these questions. I will rephrase the answers in a moment. LND is the only implementation that supports neutrino, so you have to run a full node on the others.


As long as you don't have any coins on your side, yes. However, you won't be able to send transactions over the Lightning Network in such a case.

Ok and how can that guys coinplaza or bitrefill have so much inbound, need to run a node?

I see, so every node have standard limits to start or it depends the money owners put in?

Yeah, but i have my on-chain channel and i first need to send the coins to another LN address and just after that i can start to receive, in the case of making a node i can start to receive immediately or i need to send coins first too?

Hi,
I've read the FAQ and have a simple question:
I know that it's possible to run a LN node on Raspberry PI (because I have one and I had a node on it in 2017 (I know, long time ago))
Fees has settled and I've switched off the node and forgot about it, it's in the drawer, untouched since the power off.
It was a neutrino node (without the copy of the blockchain downloaded locally)

So my question is:
If I just switch it on, it will be really outdated (it was an LND node)

Does it worth the time and the energy to start again with a Raspberry PI? (I have it, I won't use it for anything else, and I don't want to sell it, so if it won't be painfully slow or useless, is there any reason why not to play with it again?)

If it's OK to start a node on Raspberry, which one would you recommend?
Is neutrino a working solution now (it was in a really beta state in 2017), or I should attach a HDD to the PI with the blockchain, downloaded previously with a PC, and start a full node?

Thanks for the answers in advance, I'm not lazy to read and to search, but I need someone to show the right direction before I start searching and reading a lot

Using a Raspberry Pi is kinda a bumpy ride. It works well for most of the time, but sometimes, it slows down for no reason. It will be usable if you don't mind waiting another 30 seconds from time to time.


Most tutorials out there are made for LND which is the only implementation supporting neutrino. Neutrino seems to be working fine since Lightning Lab decided to use it in their mobile mainnet Lightning Network wallet. There's also another light client called Breez available on iOS which also uses neutrino.

Thank you guys, that was really helpful!
Now I'll start reading about the changes in LND and I'll try to upgrade my Raspberry to the latest release
(Or I'll start from scratch, maybe it's better)
So at first I don't mind if it will slow down from time to time but if it will happen frequently I know now where to find a nice solution for the problem