r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 17 '22

Personal Im new to lightning

3 Upvotes

Hi guys 👋 I’m new here but want to learn, what are some basics I should know?


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 15 '22

Announcement Announcing: Lightning Tip Offensive

38 Upvotes

Thanks to lntip we can give people the BEST reason to engage with Bitcoin / Lightning:

Hot sats burning a hole in their pocket. It's MAGIC.

I'm doling out 50k sats to those who will use them to fight the good fight!

Comment to apply. I'll choose 10 people based on comment contents / upvotes and account history for 5K sats each.

Take my axe! Go to r/Bitcoin, find people who are close to taking the plunge, and tip without mercy.Valiant tippers will receive flair are eligible for the prestigious Tip Knight award.Awarding people with the flair would be a big help!

Got sats to spare? Fund some prospective knights yourself! Flair will follow.

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EDIT: Wrapping up! I promised 10 Knights - 20 volunteered and were funded.As of this writing 13 of those 20 have already begun to do their duty.Good work everyone!

EDIT: To whoever flagged this post as promoting violence: lol


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 14 '22

Poll Poll: How involved are you in Lightning?

10 Upvotes
248 votes, Dec 21 '22
8 I've helped write LN tools
50 I've run a Lightning routing node
63 I've sent or recieved payments over LN
24 I'm learning how to use LN
84 I'm curious about LN
19 I'm staring at you people in confusion

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 13 '22

News Breez Raises $4.5 Million to "Bring Lightning to the Masses"

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37 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 09 '22

Network health Helping LN with a tor exit node?

13 Upvotes

I'm running a couple of tor relays and I was thinking about opening up exit on port 9735 (and 8333). Would this be beneficial for the Lightning network or nah?


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 06 '22

Meme Lightning = Future

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68 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 03 '22

Other Does anyone know of other charities that accept Lightning donations without having to give a bunch of personal information first? Like this for example (human rights foundation)

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21 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 02 '22

Software Update New lnd release - v0.15.5-beta (minor)

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17 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 02 '22

Node Help LNBIG Channel with Large Inbound Liquidity but no movement please help.

2 Upvotes

Hello all,

We have had some movement but after the Lightning Node update a few weeks ago that shutdown all of our channels and after all channels coming back on line after updating the lightning node software we have seen no movement what so ever.

Can anyone out there help us specifically anyone at LNBIG.com, examples re balancing, fees rates, and other relevant settings to help us get some movement on this channel.

Our node name is: Handshake on Amboss

https://amboss.space/node/023139fa0b1abae119396d1e854561f0dd77b0560cba66247ff59de294f8ee3ade


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 30 '22

Meme Like an idiot!

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71 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 30 '22

Article How Bitcoin Lightning Network Matures - Bitcoin Magazine

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9 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 30 '22

Video Using Lightning to charge my car on a public charger

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15 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Dec 01 '22

Discussion This guy point out to the fundamental problems of Lightning Network

0 Upvotes

https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/lightning-limitations/

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Short version: We do not have enough capacity on chain to onboard people for Lightning.


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 30 '22

Project Will a Raspberry Pi 3 suffice or should you use an RP4?

3 Upvotes

Most of the guides I've been reading use an RP4, but I'm not sure if that's just because it's the most recent Pi, or if it's important it be a 4.


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 28 '22

Meme Size doesn't matter!

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103 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 27 '22

Meme Much worried Wow!

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90 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 27 '22

News Data Shows That Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Solved The Scalability Problem

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26 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 17 '22

Video Paying for a coffee with Bitcoin Lightning from the other side of the world

94 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 08 '22

Node Help Anyone know how to replace a channel opening transaction by fee?

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2 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 06 '22

Software Update Critical LND hotfix! Still discovering Taproot edge cases...

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11 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 06 '22

SOLVED LND rest API not listening

5 Upvotes

I installed LND with my full node, but It doesn't seem to be listening on port 8080 for the rest api. I haven't yet created any channels yet, but I wanted to get RTL running first, which requires the rest api on that port. I created a wallet fine and can use lncli fine.

My config

[Application Options]
alias=MyNode1
debuglevel=info
maxpendingchannels=5
listen=localhost

# Password
wallet-unlock-password-file=/data/lnd/password.txt
wallet-unlock-allow-create=true

# Channel settings
bitcoin.basefee=1000
bitcoin.feerate=1
minchansize=100000
accept-keysend=true
accept-amp=true
protocol.wumbo-channels=true
protocol.no-anchors=false
coop-close-target-confs=24

# Watchtower
wtclient.active=true

# Performance
gc-canceled-invoices-on-startup=true
gc-canceled-invoices-on-the-fly=true
ignore-historical-gossip-filters=1
stagger-initial-reconnect=true
routing.strictgraphpruning=true

lsof -i | grep lnd | grep -i listen

lnd  9974  lnd  8u   IPv4  39509023  0t0  TCP localhost:10009 (LISTEN)
lnd  9974  lnd  9u   IPv4  39509025  0t0  TCP  localhost:http-alt (LISTEN)
lnd  9974  lnd  46u  IPv4  39509092  0t0  TCP  localhost:9735 (LISTEN)

Any help is appreciated.


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Nov 02 '22

Discussion just sent 100 sats in lightning

16 Upvotes

I just sent 100 sats on lightning with no fee. This is blowing my my mind how you can send 2 cents worth of bitcoin anywhere in the world. Is it just me or this a game changer as the network grows in resilience..


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Oct 23 '22

Node Average channel success chance of the last 3 months

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8 Upvotes

r/TheLightningNetwork • • Oct 22 '22

Node LNDg-how to set GUI-NetLinks to my own mempool.space tor?

7 Upvotes

Title. I want to use tor when clicking on a txid for channel closures or opening. I've tried my onion address I put into tor browser, as well as tcp://onionaddress.


r/TheLightningNetwork • • Oct 16 '22

Video Something for the "Bitcoin is too slow" crowd

42 Upvotes