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Class exercise

Background

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) recently released a proposed set of regulations for cryptocurrencies:

• paper
• google doc with extracted section 8
• google form to collect responses
• press release

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(This is still a work-in-progress)

As of 2019-04-02 the following PR is has been merged into master which implements channel backups

• https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2313

See also https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1112857863393763329

SCB has been merged into the lnd master branch:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2313 …
It allows for a small backup file to be made to recover a
data-lost channel's funds with peer cooperation. The file

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Meta list of lists of lightning apps and stores

• https://dev.lightning.community/lapps/index.html
• https://lightninglist.co/
• https://www.robtex.com/directory/lightning/
• https://lnapps.info/
• http://lightningnetworkstores.com/
• https://lnroute.com/
• https://acceptlightning.com/
• https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network

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Intro

I wanted to know how to get a Bech32 version of my LND Lightning Node's Public Key, for use in DNS SRV records outlined in the Bolt-12 proposal at https://github.com/tyzbit/lightning-rfc/blob/bolt12-node-dns-advertisement/12-node-dns-advertisement.md

There's an App for that!

This didn't seem easily done in LND command-line, however I found the following tool:

• https://github.com/nym-zone/bech32
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2664728.msg27178628#msg27178628

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Scraping Forex Data

I was looking for ways to scrape forex data after fixer.io switched to a subscription model with rate-limiting, making their API useless for lots of queries.

1. Use an alternative API

One alternative API which is still free is https://exchangeratesapi.io/

It's basically a drop-in replacement for fixer.io and can be used to get all forex rates in json format at

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Constant WIP

Existing Playlists

check Bitcoin songs playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeRCDU_wfWAYxkZ4lfpcfGUY6Oqcnx2lh

List of tracks

ytcracker - Bitcoin Baron

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Intro

This guide is specific to getting LND 0.5-beta and Bitcoind running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for mainnet. It is ageing rapidly and includes steps not necessary on newer versions of LND

Original installation guide:

• https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md

This guide is broken into the following sections:

• Install bitcoind and set to start automatically
• Install development tools and dependancies

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Running Lightning on Low Cost Hardware

A collection of guides on how to run Lightning on low cost hardware such as a Raspberry Pi or Odroid

(latest) Beginner’s Guide to ️⚡Lightning️⚡ on a Raspberry Pi

• https://github.com/Stadicus/guides/blob/master/raspibolt/README.md

Automated script for installing on Pi

• https://github.com/jochemin/raspnode

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1. Fork the original code in github

Open https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-dev-site and while logged in, select the "Fork" option and follow any prompts.

2. Clone your fork to a local directory

Open terminal and type

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1. Fork the original code in github

Open https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd and while logged in, select the "Fork" option and follow any prompts.

2. Clone your fork to a local directory

Open terminal and type