We've had problems with blocksonly in the past and bitcoind still allows
to use outdated (thus potentially dangerous estimates) while running
bitcoin with -blocksonly.
ZmnSCPxj mentionned that we still don't document this, but i figured
that in this specific case an explicit check and error seems preferable.
Changelog-Added: We now explicitly check at startup that our default Bitcoin backend (bitcoind) does relay transactions.
Proposed-by: ZmnSCPxj <zmnscpxj@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
This regroups questions (frequently) seen in Github issues, on IRC, and
also some I've been asked in face to face.
Changelog-Added: doc: An FAQ was added, accessible at https://lightning.readthedocs.io/FAQ.html
Christian wrote the block chain rescaning paragraph.
Lisa corrected my poor english grammar.
Co-Authored-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-by: Lisa Neigut <niftynei@gmail.com>
Changelog-changed: .lightningd plugins and files moved into <network>/ subdir
Changelog-changed: WARNING: If you don't have a config file, you now may need to specify the network to lightning-cli
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
0. Add an index
1. Mention regtest early on.
2. Link to doc/INSTALL.md for build-it-yourself.
Since they're reading this doc, they're probably already on GH so don't discourage it.
3. Talk about contrib/startup_regtest.sh.
4. Use mainnet in the examples, since that's what people probably want.
5. Refer to default .lightning dir, and manpage.
6. Trim the JSON-API section down to simple commands.
7. Add section on getting started: bootstrap script and plugins.
8. Less details on config files, just refer to the man page.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We haven't touched the readme for quite some time, just randomly added to it,
and it's starting to show. This is my attempt at cleaning it up a bit (more to
come):
- No longer discourage users from running on mainnet, we're way beyond that
point.
- No longer instruct users to build from source, when we have real binary
releases, on the PPA, the releases page and the docker images.
- Cut down on the docker specific instructions, they are taking a lot of room
when only a minority will likely run them that way
- Generally make the README more of a dispatch for more in-depth
documentation rather than trying to address everything right on the
front-page.
- Add a bit of context about running on top of a pruned node
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Header from folded patch 'fixup!_readme__first_pass_at_homogenizing_the_readme_a_bit.patch':
fixup! readme: First pass at homogenizing the readme a bit
updates the bolt version to 6639cef095a2ecc7b8f0c48c6e7f2f906fbfbc58.
this requires us to use the new bolt parser at generate-bolt.py
and updates to all of the type specifications (ie. from u8 -> byte)
* Improved plugin install in docker
- All files generated by 'make install' are copied
- Fixes issues with incomplete installation.
- Example: New executables created by build but are missing in docker.
While not strictly necessary it's certainly a good idea to test
against the latest one and not encourage users to use old versions.
Reported-by: Jonas Nick <@jonasnick>
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <@cdecker>
Now that the default newaddr type is bech32, this step seems to be tripping
people up.
Reported-by: #c-lightning users
Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
This is based on @NicolasDorier's excellent proposal for a Dockerfile, sans the
writing of a config file.
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Dorier <nicolas.dorier@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
The billboard is now far more useful to tell what's going on, and this
gets us closer to a state == owner mapping.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The more frequent question I ask to myself when initiating channels regards the amount field.
In this document we have three different denominations and the modification proposed aims to address the possible doubts or errors.
The names <amount_in_bitcoins>, <amount_in_satoshis> or <amount_in_millisatoshis> (this last is omitted because the denomination is in the description) are not so elegant but they could serve the purpose.
For the impatient! First time users following these steps may get an error like "Unable to locate package libsodium-dev" if apt-get update is not run first.
