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Getting Started

This guide is currently a generic best practice document that applies across most of the existing mint implementations.

Note: This site does not cover all mint setup across all mints.

Knowledge Requirements​

To run a mint safely and seccurely, and protect your mint's users, you should have knowledge of the following:

  • Networking
  • Security
  • Care and Feeding of Your Lightning Node

Hardware Requirements​

Mints are pretty lightweight in their system requirements. However, Docker and Keycloak can consume resources, and should ideally be run on a separate machine.

Ongoing Monitoring and Maintenance

Understand that running a mint and a Lightning back-end requires ongoing monitoring and checkups:

  • Upgrading your mint for latest features and fixes
  • Monitoring access to your system
  • Monitoring the size of your database
  • Watching the balances to make sure no funds are being compromised.
  • Monitoring your system (just like any other server you manage)
  • Notifying users if you know you will have an offline situation due to VPS service or other reason.
  • Keeping all backup keys/seeds/databases in a secure place.