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Title: Is there as simple guide on how to pay with lightning network? Post by: PatrickEClifford on July 09, 2018, 07:41:30 AM Hi!
I've seen this https://satoshis.place/ website. Thus I am looking for a simple guide that would explain how do I pay in bitcoins using lightning network. Does bitcoin core supports this feature? Title: Re: Is there as simple guide on how to pay with lightning network? Post by: mocacinno on July 09, 2018, 07:52:57 AM Hi! I've seen this https://satoshis.place/ website. Thus I am looking for a simple guide that would explain how do I pay in bitcoins using lightning network. Does bitcoin core supports this feature? Bitcoin core isn't a lightning wallet... You can run a bitcoin core node and install c-lightning on top of it... C-lightning makes use of your core installation to function. As for a simple walktrough: i made a lightning application on the testnet and wrote a walktrough on how to use it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4559889.msg41080256#msg41080256 Mainnet is about the same as the testnet, but i'd encourage you to try LN on the testnet first ;) Title: Re: Is there as simple guide on how to pay with lightning network? Post by: PatrickEClifford on July 09, 2018, 08:33:08 AM Hi! I've seen this https://satoshis.place/ website. Thus I am looking for a simple guide that would explain how do I pay in bitcoins using lightning network. Does bitcoin core supports this feature? Bitcoin core isn't a lightning wallet... You can run a bitcoin core node and install c-lightning on top of it... C-lightning makes use of your core installation to function. As for a simple walktrough: i made a lightning application on the testnet and wrote a walktrough on how to use it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4559889.msg41080256#msg41080256 Mainnet is about the same as the testnet, but i'd encourage you to try LN on the testnet first ;) Great! Thanks! Title: Re: Is there as simple guide on how to pay with lightning network? Post by: buwaytress on July 09, 2018, 10:27:53 AM The guides I've tried out are only for testnet use, so I might check out moca's link in the near future. I can't quite say why I haven't been confident enough to try mainnet transactions, but if you're interested, this one seems to get a lot of positive feedback:
https://hackernoon.com/harnessing-lightning-for-instant-bitcoin-transacting-a-tutorial-3b9dcdc00552 It's for how to spend on the Blockstream store, but uses Lightning Charge instead of (I think) c-lightning in moca's guide, so let us know if it goes well for you! I'd try it since the items there are only like $2 (and so far from what I read on this implementation, very high rate of success) but I am on a Windows machine (this guide is for Linux). |