MiniBolt

🚀 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: https://github.com/minibolt-guide/minibolt/releases/tag/v2.3

🚀 MiniBolt v2.2 Released! 🥳⬆️

A new MiniBolt update is now available, featuring a new Frigate bonus guide (by

), 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: https://github.com/minibolt-guide/minibolt/releases/tag/v2.2

Enjoy it! 💙

PD: To stay up to date with the latest changes and releases, make sure to enable GitHub release notifications for the MiniBolt GitHub repository (more details on release notes).

🚀 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

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🚀 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: https://github.com/minibolt-guide/minibolt/releases/tag/v2.1 👈🏻

📣New Mempool bonus guide!!🛁

is a blockchain explorer, mempool visualizer, and API service, all-in-one.

📍 Link to the guide -> https://tinyurl.com/minibolt-mempool

🗄 Also, check the associated MariaDB bonus guide, the database required for the Mempool backend -> https://tinyurl.com/minibolt-mariadb

Original author, and thanks to

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💙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: https://tinyurl.com/external-funding 🧩 Recover the BIP32 Master Extended Private Key — using chantools for your internal LND wallet or external hardware/software wallet: https://tinyurl.com/master-priv-key 🛠 Unlock the LND wallet manually — reduce attack surface by not storing your wallet password in plaintext: https://tinyurl.com/unlock-lnd-manually

🧰New LND Operational Tooling bonus guides: ➕ Dedicated bonus guide for lndinit: https://tinyurl.com/minibolt-lndinit 🆕 Added chantools bonus guide: https://tinyurl.com/minibolt-chantools

🧱Other Updates: 🪢Bitcoin Knots [Compiling from source code option steps] + 🩹 UA patch updated 🆙 to the latest version: https://tinyurl.com/compil-knots 🆙 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: https://tinyurl.com/minibolt-th-upgrade 🏗 Other fixes and improvements

🎨 New branding crafted by the talented

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💙Enjoy it, MiniBolter!💙

📣 New Public Pool bonus guide!! ⛏️

By

: A solo mining pool with a lightweight and easy-to-use web interface.

📍 Link to the guide: > https://tinyurl.com/cxn9myy9 <

Original author, and thanks to

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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 ~> https://www.diffchecker.com/lv3Bechy

💡 Remember to restart the service to apply the changes to the LND configuration. Follow Example 2 in this reminder: https://t.me/minibolt/4760

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

: A self-custodial, open source Lightning wallet that connects to apps.

📍Link to the guide: ~> https://minibolt.minibolt.info/bonus-guides/lightning/alby-hub

Original author, and thanks to

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Enjoy it, MiniBolter! 💙

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

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxvwp5vgurjd3e95cnwwfe956r2cnz94snqvty94skgwf4vf3xvvp3vejkvqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyr85tf46zd366lkjzws83ecs6fq3ttnjrjd500g7haz936h0knp22qcyqqq8vec26znwz

After this controversial default value for OP_RETURN change that recently merged on Bitcoin Core:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32406

And it will possibly come included with the next v30.0 release:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes-32406.md

Include: [+] step to apply a patch to remove the Bitcoin Knots-related UA improving privacy and avoiding network censorship from other peers ~> https://minibolt.minibolt.info/bonus-guides/bitcoin/bitcoin-knots#apply-the-ua-patch-optional

[+] extra section with configurations to enforce spam and arbitrary data rejection ~> https://minibolt.minibolt.info/bonus-guides/bitcoin/bitcoin-knots#enforce-spam-and-arbitrary-data-rejection

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¡Únete al directo y acompáñanos mientras elaboramos la nueva guía de Bitcoin Knots 🪢 !

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