Run a Bluetooth® gateway. Earn sats.
Encrypted Energy turns the phone in your pocket, or the Raspberry Pi on your desk, 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 Bitcoin. Two minutes to set up the phone that's already in your hand; ten for the Pi.
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 are filling in the gaps, and they need ground coverage from real hardware running real software. Your phone is exactly that — the same trick AirTags pull, working for an open network instead. So is the Umbrel on your desk.
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 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
- A bus depot, train station, or airport long-term lot
- 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
- 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.
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.
Or skip the geography question entirely: the phone gateway takes its 300 feet with it. Every mile you drive, walk, or ride sweeps fresh ground.
Run a fleet? Put the app on every phone.
The phone app was built for this. On your drivers' work phones, every route sweeps fresh ground all day: delivery vans, service techs, ATM and vending runs. And if you operate fixed sites, ATMs, kiosks, storage yards, a spare phone at each one turns the location into coverage that earns around the clock. One org runs it all: per-gateway tokens, a shared dashboard, team invites, and a provisioning API. Tell us what you operate and we'll spec the deployment with you.
Have a fleet app? We'll give you an SDK.
If your field ops teams already run on your app, our SDK turns every one of their phones into a Bluetooth gateway in the background. Every route sweeps fresh ground, every first-heard packet earns sats, and payouts route wherever you point them. No new hardware, no new app to push, nothing for your teams to do. Tell us about your app and we'll get you a build.
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 API token your gateway will paste, formatted ee_live_….
Install the app
Grab EE Gateway from the App Store on your iPhone or from Google Play on your Android phone. Or open your Umbrel's App Store and install EE Gateway in one click.
Paste your token
One API token on every platform. Paste it in and packets start forwarding the next time the Bluetooth radio scans.