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| # Interlude: Accessing a Second Lightning Node | ||||
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 | ||||
| > :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. | ||||
| 
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| 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. | ||||
| 
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| 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 | ||||
| 
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| If someone else already has a Lightning node on the network of your choice, just ask them for their ID.  | ||||
| 
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| @ -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. | ||||
| 
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| @ -62,7 +64,7 @@ One way to create an LND node is to run the Bitcoin Standup Scripts again on a n | ||||
| 
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| 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 | ||||
| 
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| Unlike with c-lightning, you will need to create a default config file for LND. | ||||
| 
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| @ -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 | ||||
| 
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| 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: | ||||
| ``` | ||||
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| ``` | ||||
| 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`.  | ||||
| 
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| ## Listening to Gossip | ||||
| ## Listen to Gossip | ||||
| 
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| 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: | ||||
| ```        | ||||
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