Frequently Asked Questions
A collection of common questions and concerns from our community.
- General
- Embassy (Device, OS, and DIY)
- Basic Usage
- Setup and Troubleshooting
- Services
- Bitcoin and Lightning Network
- Why does the Bitcoin service take so long to be ready?
- Can the IBD (Initial Block Download) be made faster? Or can wait times be improved?
- I’m getting this error: unable to connect to bitcoind: -28: Loading block index… What do I do?
- Does the Embassy run a full archival Bitcoin node?
- What actions, specifically, are only possible with an archival, or ‘unpruned’ node?
- Is it insecure to run a pruned node?
- The Bitcoin Service is different from the GUI version I am used to using (bitcoin-qt). How do I use this like I used to?
- Is a wallet vulnerable to hacking if it’s always online??
- How does Bitcoin Proxy request (and verify) data when that data is needed by some app using it?
- What is the difference between the Bitcoin Wallet Tracker and the Electrum Personal Server?
- How do I use Bitcoin Core as a wallet?
- Which wallets can I use that sync with my Embassy Bitcoin node?
- What Lightning wallets can I use that sync with my Embassy?
- Is BlueWallet an option?
- Is there a guide for connecting Specter Wallet to my Embassy?
- I want to use my hardware signer, such as Coldcard or Trezor, with my Embassy. How does this work?
- Why would I want to run a lightning node?
- How can I get started with Lightning and open my first channel?
- I opened a Lightning channel, but my local balance is lower than I expected. Where is the remainder?
- How is that fee estimation calculated?
- What would happen if I shut down an Embassy that is running a Lightning node with open channels?
- Is there a solution to this?
- Is it possible to run c-lightning and lnd parallel on the Embassy?
- How do I connect my Spark mobile app to the Embassy Spark server?
- Are my addresses, channels, and balances all stored in LND or in RTL?
- How do I find my LND seed so I can write it down to backup?
- Is there a way to use the channel backups made within RTL?
- When attempting to add new peer, RTL says “server is still in the process of starting,” but chain state seems to be fully up to date. What can I do?
- “Server is still in the process of starting,” but LND and RTL are running. How can I address this?
- I get the following error from LND: “Error ECONNREFUSED Fetching Info Failed! Unknown Error.” What’s wrong?
- What’s the best way to move a small lightning balance?
- Why are Lightning Network backups and moves so complicated?
- EmbassyOS Version 0.3.0
- Contributing & Development
