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 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.
Make your gateway presence count.
The more tagged things, trucks, scooters, shipping containers, fleet =======
Your gateway hears about 300 feet. Make those 300 feet count.
Bluetooth doesn't travel. A packet is heard or it isn't. The more tagged things, trucks, scooters, shipping containers, fleet >>>>>>> theirs vehicles, that move through your radio's circle in a day, the more packets you forward and the more bounty you eventually earn. Geography decides almost everything.
Plant one here.
- A gas station, truck stop, or rest area on a state route
- A railroad crossing, rail yard, or freight depot
- A port, marina, or barge terminal <<<<<<< ours
- A bus depot, train station, or airport =======
- A bus depot, train station, or airport long-term lot >>>>>>> theirs
- A border crossing or DOT weigh station
- A four-way intersection in a logistics corridor (I-95, I-10, I-5)
- An industrial park next to a distribution warehouse
- A construction site or equipment-rental yard
- A self-storage facility on a freight route
- A hospital ER entrance or a downtown arterial
Skip these.
- A back bedroom in a suburban cul-de-sac
- A farmhouse with no road for a mile <<<<<<< ours
- A remote island with little economic activity
- A windowless basement workshop
- An abandoned office park =======
- A 30th-floor apartment in a concrete tower (BT doesn't punch through floors)
- A windowless basement workshop
- A quiet office park after 6 p.m. >>>>>>> theirs
Rule of thumb: if a UPS truck, a Lime scooter, or a yard fork-truck rolled past your window in the last hour, your spot is good. If a deer rolled past, save the kit money and put the gateway at the office.
How payments work.
First-to-forward bounties are live. Every distinct BLE broadcast identifier your gateway hears first in a UTC day mints a sat. Settlement runs daily at 00:05 UTC and 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.