Lightning Network All Resources

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Brief

Lightning Network

Lightning Labs

Lightning FAQ - Audun Gulbrandsen

Lightning FAQ - Rusty Russell

Rusty Russell's Coding Blog

Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin

Elizabeth Stark - What is the Lightning Network

BitMEX - The Lightning Network


Image Explanations

/u/billycoin - Practical use examples

@patestevao Lightning Series Infographic -What is a multisig wallet

@patestevao Lightning Series Infographic - What are the bitcoin timelocks

@patestevao Lightning Series Infographic - Lightning - part 1 - payment channels

@patestevao Lightning Series Infographic - Lightning - part 2 - shaping the network

@patestevao Lightning Series Infographic -Lightning - part 3 - going off chain


Specifications / White Papers

Lightning Network White Paper - The protocol has changed since this original paper, but covers the mid-level mechanics of the Lightning Network with an emphasis on the smart contracts that make it trustless

Lightning Network Summary

Lightning Network Technical Summary

Lightning Network Specification

Deployable Lightning White Paper

Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks

Videos

Bitcoin's Lightning Network, Simply Explained![5:33]

The Lightning Network Explained (Litecoin/Bitcoin)[8:13]

Zap: Lightning Network Wallet(Jack Mallers - Demo Walkthrough) [3:38]

Cross-Implementation Lightning Payment on Bitcoin's Mainnet (Laolu (a.k.a roasbeef) - Demo) [2:51]

Bitcoin Q&A: The Lightning Network(Andreas Antonopoulos)[7:55]

Lightning Network Deep Dive with Laolu "Roasbeef" Osuntokun[48:10]

SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day[54:40]
 
Bitcoin, Lightning, and Streaming Money(Andreas Antonopoulos) [27:38]

Bitcoin Q&A: Running nodes and payment channels(Andreas Antonopoulos) [10:14]

Lightning Network Tech Talk at Coinbase(Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon) [58:11]

Elizabeth Stark - Lightning and the Importance of Layer Two[14:15]

Learning Resources

Lightning Network Bitcoin Wiki

Hashed Timelock Contracts

LN as a Directed Graph; Single-Funded Channel Topology(Slides)

How to Do "2-of-3 Multisig Contract" Equivalent on Lightning (From LN Mailing List)

Books

Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition

Owning Bitcoin


Tutorials

Install bitcoind + lnd

Develop an application of bitcoind and lnd

Setting up and Testing LND with the Testnet Lightning Faucet

Setting up a local Lightning cluster

Using the LND Web Client

Using the LND gRPC Client

Integrating Lightning into a server-side web application

How to use a Javascript gRPC Client with LND

Integrating Lightning into a server-side web application

Developer Documentation and Resources

Lightning Overview

LND Developers Site

LND Developer Guide


Rusty Russell's BOLT Blog Series

Lightning implementations

LND - Lightning Network Daemon (Golang)

eclair - A Scala implementation of the Lightning Network (Scala)

c - lightning- A Lightning Network implementation in C

lit - Lightning Network node software (Golang)

lightning-onion- Lightning Integration Testing Framework

ptarmigan - C++ BOLT-Compliant Lightning Network Implementation [Incomplete]


Libraries

lightning-integration - Lightning Integration Testing Framework

lightning-charge - A simple drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments (Javascript)

lightning-charge-client-js - JavaScript client for lightning-charge

lightning-charge-client-php - PHP client for lightning-charge

lightning-payencode - Minimal QR-code-ready encoding for requesting lightning payments

lseed - A DNS seed for the Lightning Network

woocommerce-gateway-lightning - A WooCommerce gateway for lightning payments

lnrpc-client - Javascript RPC Client for LND

ln-service - Lightning REST Service

Lightning Network Visualizers/Explorers

Testnet
ACINQ Testnet Explorer for Lightning

Mainnet
Recksplorer - LN Mainnet map

Bitcoin Exchange Rate - LN Mainnet Map

Robtex Explorer

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[Kruw]

I love these sorts of lists, thanks for putting it together

c - lightning- A Lightning Network implementation in C

C-lightning was renamed to Core Lightning: https://blog.blockstream.com/en-c-lightning-is-now-core-lightning/