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2018-03-18: Updating of this guide is taking a backseat to the mainnet version at
This guide is specific to btcd, lnd, on testnet, running on an ubuntu 16.04 server host.
It does not address mainnet, or using bitcoind, or neutrino.
Original installation guide is here:
Short script to monitor walletbalance and channelbalance for LND, and log to csv file for later graphing. You need a working LND, and jq installed.
first setup by editing balances.txt and add a header line
date,walletbalance,channelbalance
add the following script, edit lndbalances.sh
#!/bin/bash
2018-03-18: Updating of this guide is taking a backseat to the mainnet version at
This guide is specific to getting LND and bitcoind running on ubuntu 16.04 LTS for testnet.
It does not address mainnet, or using btcd, or neutrino.
Original installation guide:
generate a QR code on the command line for LND
sudo apt-get install qrencode
lncli newaddress np2wkh |jq -c -r .address |qrencode -t ASCII -m 5
MacOS: copy-paste an address or lightning payment request from command line into QREncoder and then scan with Eclair
Network views tend to be the view of the network from a single node, or small selection of nodes. They are not complete views of the network. This is impossible to achieve. Even if many node views were combined, it would still be incomplete.
These network views, or network maps, have been termed 'visualisers' by the LN community.
Screenshots may reflect older visual styles, and are dated accordingly.
(Incorporating sites listed by @moli at https://paste.ee/p/xC8TD#t2QCW5tWS6rcDVuMul5ohAwR04zwgkBs with additions)
Forked from vasturiano, with dataset and minor other changes.
Forked from tyzbit, with new dataset from four hosts, initial jq combine command added
The Lightning Network as seen from my three nodes, with tyzbit node, at about 22:00 UTC on Feb 20 2018. This data is updated manually when I feel like it.
WIP 2018-02-08, comments updated 2022-04-24
This gist is an outline of a likely scenario within South Africa, a developing country with a strong interest in Bitcoin & blockchain technologies.
Although it is expected within the LN community that users & merchants will run their own nodes, and fund their own channels, this approach seems to require a level of familiarity with the concepts and technology beyond the comprehension of the average joe, along with a level of access to bitcoin for channel funding purposes that is outside the financial reach of most in this country.
It's far more likely that mainstream adoption will come via parallels to existing widespread usage models, such as:
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # | |
| BACKUPDEST="$1" | |
| DOMAIN="$2" | |
| MAXBACKUPS="$3" | |
| if [ -z "$BACKUPDEST" -o -z "$DOMAIN" ]; then | |
| echo "Usage: ./vm-backup <backup-folder> <domain> [max-backups]" | |
| exit 1 |