Encrypted Energy
Run a Bluetooth gateway. Earn sats.
Encrypted Energy turns your Umbrel into a Bluetooth gateway. It listens for BLE packets from compatible networks (Hubble Network first, others as they grow) and relays them up. When your gateway is the first to forward a packet, we pay the discovery bounty in Lightning sats. Ten-minute setup, and the Pi's already in your closet.
Free to run · GPL-3.0 · No third-party accounts to set up
A whole lot of Bluetooth packets are looking for a home.
Asset trackers, environmental sensors, shipment tags. Billions of cheap radios that need a ground gateway to reach the cloud. AirTags solve this in cities by riding on a worldwide fleet of smartphones, but most of the world doesn't have that. Open Bluetooth networks like Hubble Network are filling in the gaps, and they need ground coverage from real hardware running real software. Your Umbrel is exactly that.
How payments work.
First-to-forward bounties are in development and ship later this year. Until then your gateway runs free and forwards packets so we can prove the network out together. When the bounty starts paying, it pays in Lightning sats to a node you control: no custody, no IOU, no off-chain promise we can renege on.
Three steps. Then it runs.
Ten minutes from signup to your first forwarded packet.
Sign up
Email and a password. Your account comes with one gateway slot and the two credentials your Pi will paste, formatted ee_org_… and ee_live_….
Install the app
Add the EE community store to your Umbrel (the same one already running your Bitcoin and Lightning node). Click install.
Paste your credentials
Open the app at port 8080. Paste your org ID and API token. Packets start forwarding the next time the Bluetooth radio scans.