Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0100

Recently I decided I wanted to run my own Bitcoin and Lightning node and I wanted it to be reachable on the public internet. I didn’t, however, want it to actually reside on the server that has the static public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses available. Thus, a reverse proxy was needed. This turned out to be a pretty simple thing to solve for thanks to the Nginx Stream Proxy module and Tailscale. Here’s the basic architecture:

Bitcoin on The Comfy Seat

Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx