It's time to take back control.
Run your own home cloud, Bitcoin node, media server, VPN, and more. Ditch the cloud. Self-host everything.
And now do all that in an environment that's more stunning and performant than ever.
umbrelOS 1.0. Out now for Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5 and
"the reality is that the average person is not gonna run a
#bitcoin
node" —
@elonmusk
to all the average persons running a
#bitcoin
node, congratulations! feel free to post a pic of your node below for elon 👇
It's time.
Starting today, Umbrel isn't just a
#Bitcoin
node. It's a personal server OS that empowers anyone to reclaim ownership of their data & become a self-sovereign citizen of the internet. ☂️
Introducing Umbrel 0.4. This changes everything. Again.
Introducing the stunning, all-aluminium plug-and-play Umbrel server from
@BitcoinMachines
with a 1.8" display, 64bit quad-core CPU, 8GB RAM, and 1TB or 2TB SSD.
Starting at $429:
This new internet will be powered by the people, not AWS. 💪
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Introducing Umbrel Home – a home server that puts your data back in your hands.
Run your own:
- Cloud storage
- Bitcoin node
- Media/VPN/home automation server
- Network adblocker
- 100s of self-hosted apps
Home is where your data belongs.
Pre-order:
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Introducing Umbrel 0.5 — A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting.
A whole new look. Realtime app updates. App permissions, dependencies, and authentication. Official Bitcoin & Lightning node apps. Oh, and dark mode.
This is Umbrel 0.5. The biggest update to Umbrel.
Nostr fam, we've been cooking something special for you. 🤙
Introducing Nostr Relay on Umbrel — Your Nostr activity, backed up in real-time.
Connect
@damusapp
or any Nostr client to your relay to ensure that your activity is not lost even if you are censored by public relays.
In light of the recent EU proposal on self-hosted wallets, we're excited to introduce new built-in KYC measures in the Lightning node hosted on your Umbrel 🎉
"The campaign believes that about 50 key miners, crypto exchanges and core developers have the power to change Bitcoin’s code."
lmaooo the campaign has no clue what our humble raspberry pis running bitcoin nodes are capable of
The wait is over.
Introducing umbrelOS 1.0, and the new, upgraded Umbrel Home.
umbrelOS 1.0 is a complete rebirth of umbrelOS, engineered from scratch for unparalleled stability, UX, and security.
Rolling out on March 18, 2024, for our Umbrel Home & Raspberry Pi users. And in
Folks, it is time to once again push the limits of what you can do with your
#Bitcoin
node.
Announcing Umbrel v0.3.3 with 3 brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store — Samourai Server (Dojo + Whirlpool), Mempool, LNbits — a redesigned wallet connector, Lightning Pool, and more! 🚀
imagine thinking that putting a misleading video on youtube with stock footage can change the code that runs on our raspberry pis lol, that’s some boomer shit
Open source self-hosted apps. Backed by your personal
#Bitcoin
and Lightning node. Zero configuration. One-click install. On your Umbrel.
This. Changes. Everything.
We are trying to do our part by funding an initiative around an open decentralized standard for social media. Our goal is to be a client of that standard for the public conversation layer of the internet. We call it
@bluesky
:
Pleased to announce that plebs all over the world have agreed to form the Bitcoin Node Runner Council to promote usage of running personal
#bitcoin
nodes and accelerate self-sovereignty worldwide.
Some of the members of the council:
The people have spoken.
Advanced settings are here in the new
#Bitcoin
Node app update on Umbrel.
Toggle Tor, Clearnet, I2P, Full RBF, and incoming connections (listening node). Switch networks. Speed up initial sync with cache size. And delete old blocks.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
should we add advanced settings like toggling tor, i2p, mempoolfullrbf, etc in our bitcoin node app on umbrel? we will abide by the results of this poll
It's tappening! 🟩🟩🟩
Announcing Umbrel v0.3.10 with Bitcoin Core v0.21.1, BlueWallet Lightning — a brand new app in the Umbrel App Store to connect your
@bluewalletio
directly to your Umbrel's
#Lightning
⚡️ node, and Tor connection support for BlueWallet iOS and Android. 🚀🚀🚀
Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant about Bitcoiners not running their own nodes.
“Using a Bitcoin wallet without connecting it to your own node may seem convenient, but it comes at a significant cost to your privacy and security. Every transaction made through someone
Introducing LlamaGPT — a self-hosted, offline and private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2, with absolutely no data leaving your device. 🔐
Yes, an entire LLM. ✨
Your Umbrel Home, Raspberry Pi (8GB) Umbrel, or custom umbrelOS server can run it with just 5GB of RAM!
Introducing Automatic Channel Recovery in our Lightning Node app. 🪄
Enter your 24 words, select the time your node was last online, and have your on-chain + off-chain funds restored, just like that! 🎉
Of course, here's a video of us nuking our Lightning node & recovering it:
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Y'all ready for this? Introducing Umbrel 0.4.14 with 4 brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store
Run
@urbit
on your Umbrel & connect its Bitcoin wallet to your node, remotely access your Umbrel from anywhere with
@Tailscale
, and stream sats to podcasters with usocial by
@ibz
🔥
Okay. Since a lot of you have asked, here's our official position on BIP-119...
Just kidding. We don't have a position.
You call the shots. Not us. That’s the whole point of running your Bitcoin node. We don't enforce *our position* on you.
So if a soft-fork goes ahead…
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It's happening. Umbrel 0.4.15 is here with 3 brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store.
🔥 CoinJoin with JoinMarket using Jam
❄️ Run Snowflake proxy to help Ukrainian & Russian users connect to Tor & bypass Russia's censorship
⚡️ Connect Bleskomat ATM to your Lightning node
This is BIG.
Game-changing Core Lightning (
@Core_LN
) update is now live in the Umbrel App Store! Now officially built by
@Blockstream
. 🔥
Transformed from the ground up with wallet/channel management & much more!
More choices & power to the plebs. ⚡️
Introducing umbrelOS 1.1, featuring Terminal, the umbrelOS Beta Program, several enhancements, and bug fixes.
Terminal allows you to run custom commands in umbrelOS or within a specific app.
And with the umbrelOS Beta Program, you can opt in to receive beta updates, gain early
Running your own
#Bitcoin
node just got even better (and faster) 🔥
Announcing Umbrel v0.3.9 — up to 5x faster performance, a brand new way to troubleshoot, always online
@lightning
node, wider support for SSDs and enclosures, connection support for
@LilyWallet
, and more! 🚀🚀🚀
This is why we will continue building technology that empowers individuals to become self-sovereign. That liberates humanity. That puts the power back in the hands of people.
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Y'all — just wanted to say thank you. 💜
What a crazy, insanely joyful, rewarding, and humbling year 2021 has been — from 941 to 15,000+ Umbrel users. 🙏
If we had to live it all over again, we'd be right here, writing this very tweet thread.
Here's our year in review 🧵
Umbrel 0.4.4 is now out with
#Bitcoin
Core 22.0, lower disk space usage (free up 50GB!), 3 brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store —
@NodeRED
, Krystal Bull by
@Suredbits
and
@LNMarkets
, performance improvements, updated apps, and more 🎉
Just login to your Umbrel to update 🚀
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About time.
Introducing advanced settings in the new Lightning Node app update on Umbrel. ⚡️
Personalize your node name, set routing fees, optimize your routing strategy, add watchtowers, fine-tune your node's performance, and more.
Tweak. Tune. Control. Let's go! 🚀
ok guys how about this, if you have
@mempool
installed on your umbrel and you click a bitcoin transaction, it will open up the transaction details in your personal mempool explorer app 😍🙌
knock knock! ✊
who’s there?
wallets!
wallets who?!
Electrum, Zap, Green, Phoenix, Wasabi, Zeus, BlueWallet, and Sparrow! ⚡️
now connect your favorite wallets directly to your Umbrel in the latest v0.2.11 release 🎉
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Umbrel 0.4.9 is now out with
@lightning
LND 0.14.1, two brand new apps in the Umbrel App Store —
@tallycoinapp
connect and
@syncthing
, updated apps, and bug fixes 🎉
Oh and one more thing, you can now enable two-factor authentication (2FA) to login to your Umbrel 🔐😎
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Umbrel 0.4.8 is now out with a new security feature — unique cryptographically secure default app passwords derived from your 24 secret words. 🔐
That way even if an app's unique Tor URL for remote access gets leaked (eg. in a screenshot), no one can login into that app.
whoa! public lightning network capacity just crossed 3,000
#bitcoin
🚀
find me a better looking chart than this, i'll wait. meanwhile, keep doing what y'all are doing ⚡️
h/t
@kerooke
web1: read on central server
web2: read-write on central server
web3: read-write-own via central server
web4: go to jail
web5: read-write-own on self-hosted apps on your personal home-server