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Read on for my experience. Want to test yourself? Follow my detailed guide! On testnet, losing coins is free, go ahead and play! I’m writing this fairly beginner friendly, and not assume too much familiarity with LND. I encourage anyone not experienced with LND to read the logs, which can be found in ~/.lnd-*/logs/bitcoin/testnet/ – […]
Recently, Lightning Labs’ mobile wallets had another security feature enabled: Static channel backups. It’s quite hidden, though, and still only backs up to the phone itself. With some help and extra apps, it can be made to a full-fledged, periodic off-phone backup, though. Enabling backups. After funding the wallet – or after upgrading to […]
1. Don’t run the webserver on your Lightning Node I use the woocommerce plugin towards a lightning node that is running on another server. Between the webserver and the Lightning Node there is a firewall, making sure only the ports the webserver needs to be able to generate payment requests is open. 2. Make sure […]
Or pretty much any open source project on github. Start with downloading and compiling LND from scratch, if you haven’t already done so. A Linux system is probably easiest to get it to work on, but I have heard of people who run it on Windows too. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md is the procedure you are looking for. Run […]