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Title: Signet + LND
Post by: RutgerBlume on February 12, 2021, 02:01:06 PM
Hello my friends,

I am in need of some help. I am trying to have lnd client working with the signet chain. Is it possible at all or should I move to c-lightning instead? (I saw some documentation online where it looks like c-lightning does have support for signet).

Thank you very much.


Title: Re: Signet + LND
Post by: NotATether on February 21, 2021, 11:01:38 AM
There is no support for signet in lnd, so you're stuck with c-lightning if you want that. The parameter to use it there is  --network=signet or just --signet.

Is there any reason why you can't use regtest on lnd though? There are quite a few tools[1][2] that make use of both of them.



[1]: https://docs.boltz.exchange/en/latest/
[2]: https://lightningpolar.com/



Title: Re: Signet + LND
Post by: NotATether on June 15, 2021, 04:09:51 PM
LND has signet support in latest beta, just got it up and running, tho not many nodes out there yet.

You have to enable it first by placing bitcoin.signet = true in the lnd.conf file.

According to lnd PR #5025 (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5025/commits/446090339941a1ead6f0db5ca3233e941e76439b), it's reusing mainnet's DNS seeds for Signet, which partially explains why there are hardly any signet nodes to connect to - Bitcoin Core itself only has a few of them listening for connections.