From f232bd1c058d4367db4b63eb6a5b60ae6d8b4515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shannon Appelcline Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:41:38 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] edits --- ...rlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md | 27 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md b/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md index 70e5a0d..fa8ad3d 100644 --- a/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md +++ b/18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Interlude: Accessing a Second Lightning Node -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. +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 three ways to do so: @@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ They can then tell you their `id` (`02f3d74746934494fa378235e5bc44cfdbb5b8779d83 ## Creating a New c-lightning Node -However, for testing purposes, you probably want to have a second node under you own power. 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). +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 up, you can run `getinfo` to retrieve your information, as shown above. +Once you have your node running, you can run `getinfo` to retrieve your information, as shown above. ## Creating 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. -One way to do so is to run the Bitcoin Standup Scripts again on a new machine, but this time to choose LND, per [§2.1](2_1_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md). +One way to create an LND node is to run the Bitcoin Standup Scripts again on a new machine, but this time to choose LND, per [§2.1](2_1_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md). -Another is to compile LND from source code on a machine that you've set up with a Bitcoin node, as follows. +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 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ $ go version go version go1.14.4 linux/amd64 ``` You'll also need `git` and `make`: -```` +``` $ sudo apt-get install git $ apt-get install build-essential ``` @@ -73,15 +73,10 @@ $ make install ``` This will install to `~/gocode/bin`, which is `$GOPATH/bin`. -And this will put it in global directories: +You should move it to global directories: ``` $ sudo cp $GOPATH/bin/lnd $GOPATH/bin/lncli /usr/bin ``` -Finally, this will create some standard directories: -``` -$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/lnd /var/lib/lnd -$ sudo chown standup -R /var/lib/lnd -``` ### Creating an LND Config File @@ -174,7 +169,7 @@ RestartSec=60 WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF ``` -You'll then need to install that: +You'll then need to install that and start things up: ``` $ sudo cp ~/lnd.service /etc/systemd/system $ sudo systemctl enable lnd @@ -188,7 +183,7 @@ The first time you run LND, you must create a wallet: ``` $ lncli --network=testnet create ``` -It will ask you for a password and then ask if you want to enter an existing mnemonic (just hit `n` for the latter one). +LND will ask you for a password and then ask if you want to enter an existing mnemonic (just hit `n` for the latter one). You should now have a functioning `lnd`, which you can verify with `getinfo`: ``` @@ -260,8 +255,10 @@ This node's ID is `032a7572dc013b6382cde391d79f292ced27305aa4162ec3906279fc43346 ## Summary: Accessing a Second Lightning Node -You always need two Lightning nodes to form a channel. If you don't have someone else who is testing things out with you, you're going to need to create a second one, either using c-lightning or (as we will in our examples) LND +You always need two Lightning nodes to form a channel. If you don't have someone else who is testing things out with you, you're going to need to create a second one, either using c-lightning or (as we will in our examples) LND. ## What's Next? +Though you've possibly created an LND, c-lightning will remain the heart of our examples until we need to start using both of them, in [Chapter 19](19_0_Understanding_Your_Lightning_Setup.md). + Continue "Understanding Your Lightning Setup" with [§18.3: Setting Up_a_Channel](18_3_Setting_Up_a_Channel.md).