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18_2__Interlude_Accessing_a_Second_Lightning_Node.md

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 # 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
 ```
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 ```
 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
 
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 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
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 ```
 $ 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`:
 ```
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 ## 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).