Lightning Network

Contents

Getting Started

• Opening Your First Channel - We use Ride The Lightning (RTL) as the tool to interact with and to fund our CLN or LND wallet, then open a private channel to Start9.

• Getting Inbound Liquidity - We look at the common ways to receive payments having only just opened a channel with all the liquidity on your side.

Connecting to CLN

• Connect Directly to Core Lightning - Core Lightning is one of the two lightning implementations found on StartOS. It was created and is maintained by Blockstream.
  • Alby Browser Extension
  • Ride the Lightning
  • Zeus

Connecting to LND with Alby Hub

• Alby Hub

Connecting to LND

• Connect Directly to LND - LND is the second of the two lightning implementations found on StartOS. It was created and is maintained by Lightning Labs.
  • Alby Browser Extension
  • BitBanana
  • Fully Noded
  • RTL
  • Zeus
• Connecting to LND via Lightning Node Connect (LNC) - Lightning Node Connect (LNC) provides a very simple way to connect to an LND node that does not require the Tor network.

Using LNbits

• Connect to LNbits wallets – Create and connect to a walled-off wallet in a layer above your lightning network implementation of CLN or LND.
  • The Concept
  • What lightning node should I use?
  • Setting up LNbits
    • Alby Browser Extension
    • BlueWallet
    • Zeus