Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/19_0_Understanding_Your_Lightning_Setup.md

Chapter Nineteen: Understanding Your Lighting Setup

ℹ️ NOTE: This is a draft in progress, so that I can get some feedback from early reviewers. It is not yet ready for learning.

In this chapter you'll be ready to continue begin working with the lightning-cli command-line interface. You'll create invoices, permorm payments and close channels.

Objectives for This Chapter

Supporting objectives include the ability to:

• Use Basic Informational Commands.
• Create and understang Lightning channels.
• Perform payments on the lightning network.
• Pay and describe invoices.

Table of Contents

• Section One: Generate a payment request
• Section Two: Paying an invoice
• Section Three: Closing a Channel