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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: emesik on February 07, 2022, 09:58:27 AM



Title: How to fund a signet wallet with amount much bigger than regular faucet pays out
Post by: emesik on February 07, 2022, 09:58:27 AM
Hi,

I'm testing LN on the signet. Faucets pay out amounts approx 0.001 BTC and to fund a channel I'm being requested at least 0.1 BTC.
How can I obtain such amount?

The lnd wallet address is tb1quzeqkss99csew8x23k3upg0dz2fazww9sc5kl8 just in case someone could help me with 0.1 BTC.


Title: Re: How to fund a signet wallet with amount much bigger than regular faucet pays out
Post by: LoyceV on February 07, 2022, 10:29:41 AM
Is there a particular reason you're using signet? It's actually the first time I read about it, and it looks like faucets are pretty much the way to go.
I've used "regular" Bitcoin testnet in the past, and Eclair it allowed me to open much smaller LN channels.
Update: I just checked: opening a testnet channel in Eclair to ACINQ NODE takes a minimum of 0.001tBTC.


Title: Re: How to fund a signet wallet with amount much bigger than regular faucet pays out
Post by: nc50lc on February 07, 2022, 10:32:34 AM
Bitcoin Wiki  (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet#External_links)says, find a way to contact this guy: https://github.com/kallewoof (https://github.com/kallewoof)
There's a Twitter link in his GitHub profile page and he's active there.


Title: Re: How to fund a signet wallet with amount much bigger than regular faucet pays out
Post by: Pmalek on February 14, 2022, 03:02:18 PM
This is also the first time I hear someone that uses signet. I tried to find out what benefits it offers compared with testnet and came across this bitcoin.wiki piece (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet). It mentions that the network is centralized but more reliable. It offers users ways to try out double spend attacks. One of its advantages seems to be less block reorgs and more frequently mined blocks compared to the testnet environment.

@emesik Check the wiki article I linked to above. It says:

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There is a command line tool you can use to get coins directly to your instance of Signet, assuming you are on the default network. You can also use the faucet online with an address of yours
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Using the command line tool
The tool is in contrib/signet and is called getcoins.sh. You can optionally provide a path to bitcoin-cli using --cmd=[path] and a compatible faucet using --faucet=[url] followed by any number of arguments to bitcoin-cli. The script attempts to autodetect these if left out.

$ cd ../contrib/signet
$ ./getcoins.sh -datadir=../../src/signet
Payment of 10.00000000 BTC sent with txid c0bfa...
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet

Edit: Didn't see that nc50lc already linked to the same wiki site.