From 99145e94914aa4e9a97f4d470992b1d399b13b3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shannon Appelcline Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:29:41 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] updated warning, fixed headers --- ...rlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md | 20 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md b/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md index 6cc73c1..5daf325 100644 --- a/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md +++ b/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ # Interlude: Accessing a Second Lightning Node +> :information_source: **NOTE:** This section has been recently added to the course and is an early draft that may still be awaiting review. Caveat reader. + When you played with Bitcoin you were accessing an existing network, and that made it relatively easy to work with: you just turned on `bitcoind` and you were immediately interacting with the network. That's now how Lightning works: it's fundamentally a peer-to-peer network, built up from the connections between any two individual nodes. In other words, to interact with the Lightning Network, you'll need to first find a node to connect to. There are four ways to do so (the first three of which are possible for your first connection): -## Asking for Information on a Node +## Ask for Information on a Node If someone else already has a Lightning node on the network of your choice, just ask them for their ID. @@ -48,13 +50,13 @@ lightning-cli: WARNING: default network changing in 2020: please set network=tes ``` They can then tell you their `id` (`03240a4878a9a64aea6c3921a434e573845267b86e89ab19003b0c910a86d17687`). They will also need to tell you their IP address (`74.207.240.32`) and port (`9735`). -## Creating a New c-lightning Node +## Create a New c-lightning Node However, for testing purposes, you probably want to have a second node under you own control. The easiest way to do so is to create a second c-lightning node on a new machine, using either Bitcoin Standup, per [§2.1](02_1_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md) or compiling it by hand, per [§18.1](18_1_Verifying_Your_Lightning_Setup.md). Once you have your node running, you can run `getinfo` to retrieve your information, as shown above. -## Creating a New LND Node +## Create a New LND Node However, for our examples in the next chapter, we're instead going to create an LND node. This will allow us to demonstrate a bit of the depth of the Lightning ecosystem by showing how similar commands work on the two different platforms. @@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ One way to create an LND node is to run the Bitcoin Standup Scripts again on a n Another is to compile LND from source code on a machine where you'rea already running a Bitcoin node, as follows. -### Compiling the LND Source Code +### Compile the LND Source Code First, you need to download and install Go: ``` @@ -105,7 +107,7 @@ You should move it to global directories: $ sudo cp $GOPATH/bin/lnd $GOPATH/bin/lncli /usr/bin ``` -### Creating an LND Config File +### Create an LND Config File Unlike with c-lightning, you will need to create a default config file for LND. @@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ bitcoind.zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333 EOF ``` -### Creating an LND Service +### Create an LND Service Finally, you can create an LND service to automatically run `lnd`: ``` @@ -204,14 +206,14 @@ $ sudo systemctl start lnd ``` (Expect this to take a minute the first time.) -### Enabling Remote Connections +### Enable Remote Connections Just as with c-lightning, you're going to need to make LND accessible to other nodes. Here's how to do so if you use `ufw`, as per the Bitcoin Standup setups: ``` $ sudo ufw allow 9735 ``` -### Creating a Wallet +### Create a Wallet The first time you run LND, you must create a wallet: ``` @@ -287,7 +289,7 @@ $ lncli --network=testnet getinfo ``` This node's ID is `032a7572dc013b6382cde391d79f292ced27305aa4162ec3906279fc4334602543`. Although this command doesn't show you the IP address and port, they should be the IP address for your machine and port `9735`. -## Listening to Gossip +## Listen to Gossip If you were already connected to the Lightning Network, and were "gossipping" with peers, you might also be able to find information on peers automatically, through the `listpeers` command: ```