Thread by @JohnCantrell97

Introducing Sensei: A lightning node implementation focused on making Bitcoin accessible to the entire world.

Sensei combines the utility of the @bitcoindevkit with the flexibility of the @lightningdevkit to produce a node ready to take on the world.

l2.technology/sensei

Sensei offers all the functionality you’d expect from a lightning node:

- creating and paying lightning invoices
- opening and closing channels
- on-chain transactions and utxo management
- authenticated http and grpc apis
- a cli tool

and so much more.

Sensei allows you to spawn and manage always-on lightweight child nodes.

They share resources with the parent node but appear no different to the rest of the network.

Help your friends, family, and community members manage their uptime and liquidity while earning routing fees.

Sensei offers a locally hosted web-based administration panel for easily managing your fleet of nodes.

Use macaroon-based authentication to communicate with your node or fallback to more familiar username and passphrase methods.

This is just the beginning for Sensei, there is so much more to come.

With that said, it’s currently in an early beta state and is not recommended to be used on mainnet just yet.

Join our discord community to stay on top of the latest developments: discord.gg/bneS492Tqu

I’d also like to introduce @L2BTC. L2’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin by building software and services that enable as many people as possible to realize its value.

If this mission excites you, join us, we’re hiring!

l2.technology

Sensei is completely free and open source software. All of the code is available for review and contributions on Github: github.com/L2-Technology/…

There’s also a work-in-progress documentation website available here: docs.l2.technology

Excited to get Sensei and L2 out there and continue to iterate on both in public.

Let’s make Bitcoin accessible to all 7.753 billion people on Earth!