Questions tagged [c-lightning]
c-lightning is a standard compliant implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. The Lightning Network is a scalability solution for Bitcoin, enabling secure and instant transfer of funds between any two parties for any amount.
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How to upgrade bitcoind in docker?
I am running the docker version for c-lightning 0.7
On a raspberry I need to clone the blockchain, but it needs version 0.17.1
Looking at the docker-compose.yml file I see:
version: "3"
services:
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How to get all potential routes in c-lightning?
I'm trying to write some services on top of c-lightning and I need to check if certain payments hit certain nodes.
lightning-cli getroute nodeid amount riskfactor
This gives me a randomly ...
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How to use remote bitcoind with docker
I want to use multiple nodes with the same remote bitcoind. E.g. my node on my desktop, my node on digital ocean, my node on Google cloud ...
I don't want to run everywhere a full bitcoind and pay ...
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How to tell if Lightning nodes are lnd, c-lightning, eclair
I am performing some experiments on the Lightning Testnet Network. I would like to perform the experiment on the 3 main lightning implementations, for which I would like to be able to connect and open ...
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How to know earning LN routing fees
I am using c-lightning version:v0.6-182-g1851ebb. Is there a way to know how much I have earned routing fees? I found that lnd has lncli feereport command that shows earned fees. Does c-lightning have ...
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c-lightning - CHANNELD_AWAITING_LOCKIN - Freeze
I have open 3 channels with a c-lightning node (with rompert.com and satoshis.place and HP).
When I look for the funding_txid field on the blockchain the transactions are all confirms for more than ...
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lightning node data visibility on explorers
I'm trying to set my first c-lightning node with docker-compose using image from https://hub.docker.com/r/elementsproject/lightningd. currently, my node can connect and open channel with other nodes (...
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Error pay invoice. Ran out of routes to try after 2 attempts: see paystatus
I wanted to send some satoshis on testnet lightning network but I got "Ran out of routes to try after 2 attempts: see paystatus" error.
I have a channel with 02...48 (1ML.com node ALPHA) and created ...
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What are the issues of running lightning daemon with pruning node?
Most lightning implementations I came across don't officially support pruned full node.
Why is pruned mode implementation a challenge?
What risk am I taking when I run lnd with pruned bitcoind?
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How to securely update and verify C-Lightning release?
Recently, a new version (v0.7.3) of C-Lightning was released. The GitHub page has detailed instructions on how to build the software from source, but does not provide much details as to how to update ...
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c-lightning determine channel capacity
I'm using c-lightning to experiment with sending micropayments backwards and forwards between 2 separate nodes.
One area I am experiencing great difficulty with is being able to generate an invoice ...
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Bidirectional channel opening in c-lightning
With the current version of c-lightning is it possible to open a bidirectional channel funded by both parties?
I managed to open a channel with fundchannel command, but that seems to be a ...
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Total channel count differs from explorers
I have my own c-lightning node. listchannels returns 11,455 but explorers, e.g https://explore.casa/ show around 39,000. Do I need to set something to get all channel info?
$ lightning-cli ...
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Please help me to understand lightning-cli getinfo more
I have now clightning running for a month. I watch very often lightning-cli getinfo
Here I found in the first three weeks:
"msatoshi_fees_collected": 0
A week ago it changed to
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How to debug lightning-cli invoice
I tried:
lightning-cli invoice 100 invoice20190126 payme
and nothing happens. How to debug?
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Doubt on lightning channel opening
It's 5 days since I opened my first (and unique, for now) lightning channel.
Unfortunately it seems that only me have funded the channel while the counterparty didn't, so the channel it's actually a ...
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c-lightning - Unknown Peer
I'm trying to create a channel using c-lighting (testnet), but I keep getting an Unknown Peer error message.
I used cli/lightning-cli connect which seemed to work fine.
I used cli/lightning-cli ...
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Is it possible to connect remotely to a c-lightning node with an exposed TCP port?
If you run a c-lightning node with EXPOSE_TCP set to True, it seems to me it should be possible to connect with it remotely, provided that the c-lightning RCP is listening to all incoming traffic. (IP ...
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Question regarding LN node backups
I have LN node running on c-lightning. I am performing ~/.lightning dir backups time-to-time.
Let's say after backup i open few new channels and withdraw rest of onchain funds to my electrum. Then i ...
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Sharing the lightning-rpc socket
I'm using user "lightning" to start the daemon, but would like to have user "bitcoin" to make the lightning-cli calls. How do I share the lightning-rpc file to do so?
Thanks!
Francois
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How to close stale lightning channels with c-lightning
I was running a lightning node using c-lightning about 9 months ago. Unfortunately the server was shutdown while a few channels were open.
I have restarted the server and updated c-lightning to the ...
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clightning uses all my resources, … till I have to shutdown!
clightning runs for a while great. However, every second day the computer locks up,
I use docker-compose for that:
version: "3"
services:
bitcoind:
image: nicolasdorier/docker-bitcoin:0.16.3
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Lightning payment between two nodes
I'm struggling to work out how I can setup a channel between two lightning nodes so that I can send a single payment from one node to the other.
I have set up two separate c-lightning nodes connected ...
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Check which C-Lightning version I am running?
Ive downloaded and unpacked the new version 0.6 but is there anyway I can check through CLI commands which version i'm running to ensure the update worked?
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c-lightning missing outputs
A few days ago I did a submarine swap in order to rebalance a channel of mine. I opted to be refunded on-chain using a brand-new address generated with c-lightning newaddr command. I used the p2sh ...
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“Cannot afford transaction”
version 0.7 clightning
Listfunds shows me:
963692 satoshi available to fund channels
6280512 satoshi owned in channels
14832105 satoshi total channel capacity
When I try to fund a channel with ...
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How to upgrade docker clightning
I tried to update clightning to the new version of 0.7 by
docker-compose stop
docker-compose rm clightning_bitcoin
docker-compose up
However, it is still version 0.63
Where do I set that it is ...
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Why channel closed automatically
I got this message:
I tried looking in the logs. Just prior to the channel closing, seems like
there was a temporary network issue and the re-establishment message wasn't
received by your node. ...
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channel count differs on my site and 1ML
I wonder why:
lightning-cli getinfo;listfunds
{
"id": "035aef5661e1a6e370db60dc0455796800afd5b51fbc12a0a8b34836b15f5d7ef6",
"alias": "TWronald✅",
"color": "15c315",
"num_peers": 41,
"...
