Balance of Satoshis

Balance of Satoshis — bos for short — is a command-line toolkit for running an LND Lightning node. It bundles well over a hundred commands for the day-to-day work of node operation: managing liquidity, inspecting channels, moving funds, and understanding where your routing fees actually come from.

Liquidity management is what most operators reach for first. Rebalance funds between your own peers to reset a lopsided channel, increase inbound or outbound liquidity, open a balanced channel with a partner, or batch several channel opens into a single on-chain transaction to save on fees. Probing commands test whether a payment can reach a destination before you commit to sending it.

The reporting side is just as deep. Get an accounting-formatted ledger of your transactions for bookkeeping, chart routing fees earned and paid over time, review how closed channels resolved on-chain, inspect your unspent outputs, and pull a general activity report for the node. Fee commands let you view and adjust your outbound rates peer by peer.

Because it drives LND directly through its authenticated API, bos runs from a terminal over SSH on your MyNode with no interface of its own. That is the tradeoff: you type commands rather than click, with 'bos help' listing everything available. In exchange you get one of the most complete sets of Lightning management tools anywhere, maintained by longtime Lightning developer Alex Bosworth.