RaMiX

Build your own "DIY" Bitcoin & Lightning full node, and other stuff on a Raspberry Pi. No need to trust anyone else.

Attention!! This guide is in the WIP (work in progress) state and hasn't been tested yet. Many steps may be incorrect. Act behind your responsibility

Build your own "do-everything-yourself" Bitcoin full node, Lightning, and other stuff on a Raspberry Pi, making you sovereign.

No need to trust anyone else. Don't trust, verify!

What is the RaMiX?

With this guide, you can set up a Bitcoin, Lightning node, and other stuff on a Raspberry Pi, doing everything yourself. You will learn about Linux, Bitcoin, Lightning, and much more.

There are many reasons why you should run your own Bitcoin node:

👥 Keep Bitcoin decentralized: use your node to help enforce your Bitcoin consensus rules.

🗽 Take back your sovereignty: let your node validate your Bitcoin transactions. No need to ask someone else to tell you what's happening in the Bitcoin network.

🥷🏽 Improve your privacy: connect your wallets to your node so you no longer need to reveal their financial history to external servers.

⚡️ Be part of Lightning: run your Lightning node for everyday payments and help build a robust and decentralized Lightning network.

RaMiX overview

This guide explains setting up your own Bitcoin node on a Raspberry Pi. However, it works on most hardware platforms because it only uses standard Debian-based Linux commands.

Features

Your Bitcoin node will offer the following functionality:

🟠 Bitcoin: direct and trustless participation in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network, full validation of blocks and transactions

⚛️ Electrum server: connect your compatible wallets (including hardware wallets) to your node

⛓️ Blockchain Explorer: web-based Explorer to privately look up transactions, blocks, and more

⚡ Lightning: full client with stable long-term channels and web-based and mobile-based management interfaces

🔋 Always on: services are constantly synced and available 24/7

🌐 Reachable from anywhere: connect to all your services through the Tor network and Wireguard VPN

Target audience

We strive to give foolproof instructions. But the goal is also to do everything ourselves.
Shortcuts that involve trusting someone else are not allowed. This makes this guide quite technical, but we try to make it as straightforward as possible.
You'll gain a basic understanding of the how and why.
If you want to learn about Linux, Bitcoin, and Lightning, this guide is for you.