Nakamoto Desktop AppBitcoin, Under Your Control
A sovereign Bitcoin operating system for long-term holders who value verification, security, and legacy.
Native Bitcoin Mining From the Desktop
Participation, Not Abstraction
The Nakamoto Desktop App enables transparent, local, opt-in mining using your idle CPU, GPU, or external ASIC hardware. This is not abstracted mining exposure—this is direct participation in Bitcoin's consensus mechanism from your own machine.
Every hash, every block candidate, every satoshi earned is visible in real-time through an intuitive dashboard. Rewards are routed directly to your cold storage addresses with no intermediary custody, no pool operator trust assumptions, and no opaque fee structures.
For those who remember Bitcoin's original promise—that anyone with a computer could participate in securing the network—this restores that spirit without sacrificing modern efficiency. Mining becomes a conscious choice: contribute when you want, earn what you verify, and maintain complete sovereignty over your participation in the network.
Bitcoin IRA & 401(k) With Full Self-Custody
Retirement Without Compromise
Traditional Bitcoin retirement accounts force a painful trade-off: tax advantages in exchange for custody. Third parties hold your keys, your Bitcoin sits in omnibus wallets, and you're exposed to counterparty risk during the decades you're meant to be accumulating wealth.
The Nakamoto Desktop App supports true self-directed Bitcoin retirement accounts where you never surrender your private keys. Hardware wallet integration ensures cold storage remains cold. Transparent rollover flows from existing 401(k)s and IRAs are guided step-by-step. Clear tax reporting generates the documentation you need without exposing your holdings to unnecessary risk.
Zero rehypothecation. Zero lending. Zero counterparty risk on your retirement savings. Your Bitcoin remains yours through every market cycle, every halving, and every decade of accumulation—exactly as it should be for long-term wealth protection.
One-Click Deep Cold Storage Mode
Enforced Long-Term Thinking
The greatest threat to long-term Bitcoin accumulation is often the holder themselves. Emotional selling during drawdowns, impulsive spending during euphoria, and the constant temptation to "trade the cycle" have destroyed more wealth than any hack or exchange failure.
Deep Cold Storage Mode is discipline built into software. With a single click, you can lock funds behind cryptographic timelocks that make spending impossible until a specified future date. No amount of panic, greed, or external pressure can override mathematics.
Enable multisig requirements that distribute keys across geographic locations. View real-time countdown timers showing exactly when funds become accessible. Stack configurations—timelock plus multisig plus geographic separation—to create custody arrangements as robust as institutional vaults, operated from your desktop.
Full Bitcoin Node & Lightning Node
Sovereignty, Simplified
Running your own Bitcoin node is the only way to truly verify the network's rules and your own transaction history. Without a node, you're trusting someone else's version of the truth. With the Nakamoto Desktop App, running a full node requires exactly one click.
The app handles initial block download, peer discovery, and chain validation automatically. For those who want to participate in Bitcoin's second layer, Lightning node functionality is equally streamlined—open channels, set routing fees, and contribute to payment infrastructure without touching the command line.
Earn routing income while sleeping. Verify every transaction against rules you enforce locally. Contribute to Bitcoin's decentralization simply by running the software. The technical barriers that once limited node operation to developers are gone.
Generational Inheritance & Dead-Man Switch
Bitcoin That Survives You
Bitcoin's permanence means nothing if access dies with its holder. Traditional estate planning for Bitcoin relies on third parties, paper instructions that can be lost or misunderstood, and legal structures that may not survive jurisdictional changes.
The Nakamoto Desktop App provides cryptographic inheritance that operates independently of any institution. Configure time-locked transfers to designated heirs. Establish proof-of-life checks that must be satisfied periodically—if not, inheritance protocols activate automatically.
Encrypted instructions can be revealed only after specified conditions are met. Key shards can be distributed to trusted parties who cannot access funds individually but can reconstruct access together. Your Bitcoin becomes part of a multi-generational legacy, protected by mathematics rather than lawyers.
Proof-of-Reserves Dashboard
Radical Transparency
The collapse of centralized platforms has proven that trust without verification is not trust at all. Even "audited" reserves have proven worthless when auditors rely on attestations rather than cryptographic proof.
The Proof-of-Reserves Dashboard provides UTXO-level visibility into every satoshi you hold. Generate cryptographic proofs that verify your holdings without revealing private keys. Establish continuous verification schedules that detect any unauthorized movement instantly.
For those managing assets on behalf of others—family offices, small funds, community treasuries—this dashboard eliminates the need for trusted third-party audits. Proof replaces promise. Verification replaces reputation. Mathematics replaces institutional credibility.
Sovereign Yield Without Lending
Earned, Not Promised
The promise of "Bitcoin yield" has been weaponized by platforms that took custody, lent recklessly, and collapsed spectacularly. But yield from Bitcoin isn't inherently impossible—it simply requires participating in activities that generate real economic value without surrendering custody.
Lightning routing income flows directly to your node as you facilitate payments across the network. Mining participation generates block rewards and transaction fees. Fee sharing from Bitcoin-native services rewards participation without lending, leverage, or counterparty exposure.
Every satoshi earned is earned through contribution to Bitcoin's infrastructure—not promised by entities making opaque bets with your holdings. Yield becomes a function of participation, not a lure for custody extraction.
Time-Weighted Conviction Metrics
Measuring What Matters
Price charts measure market sentiment. Conviction metrics measure holder behavior. The Nakamoto Desktop App introduces a new visualization paradigm that respects patience over speculation.
Track your holding duration across multiple halvings. Visualize how your stack has weathered bear markets, survived exchange collapses, and remained unmoved through periods of maximum fear and maximum greed. See your position in the distribution of long-term holders.
These metrics won't help you trade better—they're designed for those who don't trade at all. They provide perspective, context, and quiet confirmation that conviction, properly understood, is a strategy in itself.
Personal Bitcoin Audit Mode
Stress-Testing Your Sovereignty
Security is not a configuration—it's an ongoing practice. The Personal Bitcoin Audit Mode transforms your desktop into a security testing environment, allowing you to stress-test your custody arrangements before they're tested by circumstance.
Run offline security simulations that verify your backup recovery procedures actually work. Test inheritance configurations to ensure heirs can actually access designated funds. Simulate key compromise scenarios to understand your exposure and response capabilities.
Preparedness tools guide you through threat modeling specific to your situation. Geographic distribution analysis. Hardware failure scenarios. Coercion response planning. When security becomes a practice rather than a configuration, it becomes durable.
Sovereignty Health Score
A New Kind of Measurement
How sovereign are you, really? The Sovereignty Health Score provides an objective assessment of your Bitcoin security posture—not to judge, but to illuminate areas for improvement.
The score evaluates custody strength—single-sig versus multisig, hardware versus software, hot versus cold. It measures node participation—are you verifying your own transactions or trusting others? It assesses key distribution—geographic separation, inheritance preparation, backup redundancy.
Exposure risk analysis identifies dependencies on third parties that you may not have considered. The result isn't a grade—it's a roadmap for incrementally increasing your sovereignty, at your own pace, according to your own priorities.
Take Control of Your Bitcoin
Run the network. Secure your future. Protect your legacy.
Compatible with Windows 10+ and macOS 12+
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Nakamoto Desktop App
Is this app custodial?
No. Users always control their private keys. The Nakamoto Desktop App is designed from the ground up for self-custody. We never have access to your keys, your seed phrases, or your funds.
Does Nakamoto have access to my funds?
No. The software is designed for self-sovereignty. There are no servers that hold your keys, no backdoors, and no recovery mechanisms that require our involvement.
Can I use hardware wallets?
Yes, full hardware wallet integration is supported. The app works seamlessly with major hardware wallet manufacturers including Ledger, Trezor, Coldcard, and others.
Does the app collect personal data?
No. Privacy is a core design principle. The app does not collect, store, or transmit personal information. There are no analytics, no tracking, and no telemetry.
Is this suitable for beginners?
The Nakamoto Desktop App is designed primarily for long-term holders and serious Bitcoin users who understand the importance of self-custody and verification.
Is the app open source?
Yes. The complete source code is available for inspection, audit, and verification. We believe that security software must be transparent to be trustworthy.
Can I run this on Linux?
Linux support is in development and will be available in an upcoming release. We recognize that many serious Bitcoin users prefer Linux for its security properties.