Questions tagged [lightning-network]
Proposed payment system leveraging payment channels which allow re-negotiation of balances that finally get executed on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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LN transaction on the mainnet
I want to do a LN transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet. How can I do this ? Are there any special wallets out there and if yes which wallet ?
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Lightning network routing failure rate
Let's say a lightning node A wants to route a payment to a lightning node B, being A and B not directly connected.A looks for routes throughout the network, using the info about the total capacity of ...
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How to create bidirectional channels using LND?
I created a channel with following command. But its not bidirectional by default.
lncli openchannel --node_key=02cdf83ef8e45908b1092125d25c68dcec7751ca8d39f557775cd842e5bc127469 --local_amt=390000
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Purpose of the LN transaction description
According to Bolt 11, an invoice may contain a short description. However, what I fail to understand is who is sending this information to whom.
Since the invoice is usually generated by the payee, I'...
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Minimum funds required in a channel in Lightning?
I have noticed that, I cannot exhaust the funds in my channel to one side in lnd. I understand this makes sense so as to have some punishment in case of fraud, but I cannot find the reason for the ...
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Can the lightning network be subject to DoS attacks due to message flooding?
In the current implementations of the Lightning network protocol (c-lightning, eclair and lnd), is there any check that stops spamming/flooding of channel_announcement, mode_announcement or ...
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How can I open channels with Eclair?
I have set up a Bitcoin Core wallet with 0.3 bitcoins in it and an Eclair lightning node. The rpc userid and password is set plus all the other settings I am supposed to have, hopefully.
No problems ...
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How does the lightning network handle changing IPs?
What happens if suddenly my IP/Onion address changes? Will that be a problem for the lightning network? Or could my node just simply update the network graph as long as its public key stays the same?
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Being offline: when do other nodes close channels?
If my lightning node goes offline, how long will it take until my counterparty nodes close the channels they co-own with me?
This is obviously up to the counterparty nodes, as they can choose ...
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Closing a channel in Lightning Network
I have some doubts about the closure of a lightning network channel. As far as I know, there can be (al least) 4 different scenarious:
one node decides to close the channel, and the other one accept ...
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failed , peer sent error: bad announcement sig!
I have been running eclair for some time now but there are some problem i experience time to time.
1. channel close them self with out me doing any thing, is there time span channels has to be closed ...
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Need help with a .conf file to run a lighting node?
This is my configuration file and i followed all of the instructions for the program but it always gives me the error message about something missing. I don't even know what programming language .conf ...
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I'm confused about some aspects of bitcoin Lightning network
Theoretically, I know How this network works. but technically I am confused.
Is lightning running on the bitcoin protocol or another blockchain?
Is is something like Sidechain?
Where bitcoins in ...
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Lightning Network: what about tx fragmentation?
I really have no idea how to aks it right. Let me give an example:
We have a some peoples A,B,C,D.... And A makes transaction to B, then A need to pay to C, then send some coins to D, etc... After ...
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In lightning network, is the balance publicly anounced in realtime?
In lightning network, is the balance publicly announced in Real-time?
From one hand, it should be public as it crucial to the routing mechanism.
But, in case that the balance might reveal some ...
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What is the purpose of the announcement_signatures message as specified by the Lightning Network RFC?
Isn't the channel_announcement message enough for channel advertisement? Why is the announcement_signatures message required?
Reference BOLT #7
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LN channel lnd + android wallet problem
I am running LN node powered by lnd. Also I have installed on my phone a LN app - Bitcoin Lightning Wallet. I opened a channel from mobile app to lnd node sucessfully (many confirmations), but I ...
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What other lightning nodes are there besides Eclair Core for running a full node lightning?
I realized that in order to receive lightning payments from others, you need to first run a lightning full node. I found this one from Eclair: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
Are there other full ...
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How to know that the account balance of a user needs to be updated after paying/sending an invoice?
Lets say there is a service in which users can have a few satoshis but are also able to deposite/withdraw satoshis by paying/sending a lightning invoice. Let us assume the service has some data store ...
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How can I see how many Bitcoins my c-lightning network node has?
I am running a c-lightning node and want to know how many btc I am owning on this wallet and how many I can spend. lightning-cli listchannels does not help. What do I need to do?
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unable to route payment to destination: TemporaryChannelFailure
Keep getting this error following attempting to pay an invoice.
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-nyc3-01:~# lncli --network=testnet payinvoice ...
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What is happening when a channel is pending?
What is happening when a channel is pending when opened? How long does it usually take? To open a channel with a node you're already connected to you don't need to get consensus from all the other ...
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How much Bitcoin is needed to start a Lightning node?
I've never used Lightning but can someone recommend how much Bitcoin I need to fund a Lightning node? I will be using the Eclair client.
Thanks
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rpc error: code = Unknown desc = dial tcp 103.102.44.207:9735: connect: connection refused
I'm getting connection refused when I try to connect to a public testnet node.
lncli --network=testnet connect 022ff54505fe9b50ce6c3c99c645c9aab67fe91abb01504c5211045b82a09aa757@103.102.44.207:9735
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unable to read macaroon path (check the network setting!): admin.macaroon: no such file or directory on lncli getinfo
Just started lnd for the first time connected to a bitcoind node. Do lncli getinfo and this is the error message. How can I get past this?
EDIT: Would like to add that I'm using lnd on testnet, ...
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Submitting an old balance sheet in the lightning network
If either party can close a lightning network channel by submitting their version of the balance sheet. What stops one party submitting an old version of the balance that favours them?
Would the ...
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Is it possible to create pure lightning lockboxes (without touching the blockchain)?
I'm considering a scenario in lightning, where it would be extremely useful to be able to lock the funds in 2/3 lock
Is this possible on lightning network (even in theory)?
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Are there any risks on publicizing a Lightning network invoice?
What are the negative effects of publicizing a LN invoice either before or after its payment?
From what I understand, after its payment it won't allow a 2nd payment of the invoice, so 3rd parties ...
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My lnd node hasn't routed any payments (1 week + since initial setup)
So I finally setup a lightning node (lnd) and according to "feereport" I haven't routed any payments (no fees collected). I have used my node to send payments (yalls, satoshis.place, blockstream...) ...
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Lightning network Fraudulent Channel Close
If a lightning network transaction between 2 participants, where the payment is routed by multiple channels, does it means that all full LN nodes that routed the payment should stay online to avoid ...
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Lightning Network: can I create a channel from a preexisting channel?
If I open a channel with myself for 0.01 BTC, with one end having all, and the other having none, could I create an updated contract, or state, to send 0.001 BTC to an address owned by Alice, even ...
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Restore lightning network node/channels
If one wanted to restore a lightning network node, what files have to be saved?
I read that saving hsm_secret is enough to restore private key(s), but I also read about a problem with channels. How ...
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Lightning network: funds into channels
Is there a minimum limit of bitcoin that can be added into a channel during the initialization?
And, if I decided to open a channel with a lightning node, also that node has to add money to the ...
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Full node vs lightning node
What is the difference between a full node and a lightning (network) node?
If a lightning node, that is not a full node, opens a payment channel with another lightning node, how can the first peer ...
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Lightning network: Open a channel with a peer that is not a full node?
Is it possible to open a channel with a peer that is not a full node? Or to exchange lightning payments between two peers that are not full nodes, they both have to open a channel with full lightning ...
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Can you run a bitcoin lightning node on a raspberry pi zero?
Will a bitcoin lightning node run on a raspberry pi zero? Does it have to have the full Bitcoin blockchain synced or can it connect to a remote node? Also what are the minimum requirements to get a ...
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Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found
I followed the tutorial https://medium.com/@meeDamian/c-lightning-node-on-rbp3-b950660fb835 without error.
When I type:
sudo systemctl start lightningd
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Failed to start lightningd.service: ...
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Lightning Network: what happens if parties lose their txs?
Let's take the classical example of Alice and Bob with 0.5BTC each. Commitment Txs are exchanged for a new balance sheet: Alice has 0.6BTC, and Bob 0.4BTC.
If Alice loses Bob's Breach Remedy Tx, she ...
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Can LN clog main chain BTC?
Main chain BTC can handle something about 300k tx per day without increasing fees, open and closing channels need to be done using standard tx on main chain. So the question is if we will have large ...
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How to convert channel id from c-lightning to lnd?
Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm not very good in lightning network...
So I have two daemons: c-lightning and LND.
Channels from the c-lightning comes like this 505580:1917:1;
Channels from the ...
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Has Lightning Network seen any fraud or major vulnerabilities? [closed]
I'm curious to know has LN faced any major issues so far?
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What type of smart contacts will be available on Lightning Network? [closed]
What kind of contacts will we be seeing eventually on LN? Will it be anything like what Ethereum has?
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Can SPV clients offer “proof of absence” of a transaction?
So light SPV clients give the user the ability to obtain merkle proofs (from a full node) that a given transaction is included in a block. Is there some cryptographic mechanism by which an SPV client ...
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Share balance between lnd and bitcoind
I have a bitcoind instance with some balance. When I run lnd (which is connected to this bitcoind instance) it seems to use its own wallet. Is there any way I can use lnd with the bitcoind balance ...
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Clarification about lightning network
When I run a lightning node, I have to set up a lightning channel with, for example, a highly connected node.
Here a first question: When I set up a lightning channel with a node, have I need to put ...
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“state channel” v.s “micro-payment channel” : are they the same?
We use "micro-payment channels" such as "Bitcoin Lightning Network" or "Duplex Micro-Payment Channels" for saving transaction fee, accelerating payments, supporting better micro-payment and scaling ...
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How to migrate lightning nodes?
I am wondering what steps to take to migrate a lighting node to a different server, keeping the pubkey/identity. The safest option is obviously to close the channels first. How is the identitiy pubkey ...
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How does channel factory act?
I am reading paper named "Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks".
If Alice, Bob, and Charlie created a channel factory, I thought that only these three people can make a payment ...
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does Lightning Network can work and solve Bitcoin scalability problem? [closed]
from what i managed to understand(if i got it right), the lightning network is supposed to work by using "channels" which can be created by some users with some seller and also be used by anyone who ...
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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 ...
