Running your Lightning Node on Umbrel

Hopefully you previously read my blog about “How to Run a Bitcoin and Lightning Node” (link is at the bottom), and now have your Umbrel node up and running. If so, and you’re like me, you are saying

“Ok that’s cool! But now what should I do?”

Well, after getting your Bitcoin and Lightning Network node up and running, let’s create a channel on your Lightning Network.

Let’s get started!

First let’s add some bitcoin to your Umbrel. Why? Because to open channels on Lightning Network, you must allocate some bitcoin (typically in the form of sats). On the left menu, click on Bitcoin.

You should see something like this, however, I already have some sats in my bitcoin wallet. If you are just starting with Umbrel, you will have 0 sats.