Re: [Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-25 Thread Benjamin Mord
Related, I am also interested in the differences between the three major lightning implementations: lnd, eclair, and c-lightning. I understand they are implemented in Go, Scala, and C, respectively. Are there other important differences for early adopters to consider, when selecting an

Re: [Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-25 Thread v e
Thanks Christian, I do know that i should not expose lighteningd to multiple tenants however, I am still trying to understand: 1) How merchant wallet is tied up to an invoice? 2) How consumer wallet can send satoshi to that invoice id? If you have any code examples that would be great. On

Re: [Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-20 Thread Christian Decker
v e writes: > Will do as you suggested. one another question, when you say customers do > you mean end clients who are buying goods and services? Yes, they'll need to have clients that understand the Lightning protocol just like anyone else in the network. > Also i am

Re: [Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-19 Thread v e
Thanks christian, Will do as you suggested. one another question, when you say customers do you mean end clients who are buying goods and services? Also i am building an server-client model where i am trying to host multiple merchants who can accepts payments from end customers. Does that mean i

Re: [Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-19 Thread Christian Decker
Hi v e, in order to use Lightning Charge you will need the following: - A full bitcoind node sync'd with the network - A c-lightning node - npm + lightgning-charge running to give you access to the REST API We currently do not have (and may never have) bindings for bitcoinj. Re invoices:

[Lightning-dev] How to use LN

2018-01-18 Thread v e
Hi, I am building merchant app and consumer wallet app using https://bitcoinj.github.io APIs for wallet creation. Now I want to use LN built by your team. I am looking at this API https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning-charge and have few questions: * Do i need to run bitcoin core node? *