From ben at mord.io Wed Jan 31 21:28:00 2018 From: ben at mord.io (Benjamin Mord) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:28:00 -0500 Subject: [Lightning-dev] lnd on bitcoind In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks - the installation instructions you linked to say otherwise (the reason I asked), but perhaps they just need to be updated. *"Installing btcd* *lnd currently requires btcd with segwit support, which is not yet merged into the master branch. Instead, roasbeef maintains a fork with his segwit implementation applied. To install, run the following commands:"* On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Olaoluwa Osuntokun wrote: > Segwit has been merged into btcd for for sometime now. It's also possible > to > run with bitcoind. I encourage you to check out the documentation: > https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md > > In lnd, the chain backend has already been abstracted[1]. This is what > allows > it to run with any of the three supported chain backends (btcd, bitcoind, > neutrino). I invite you to continue this conversation on #lnd on Freenode. > > [1]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/ > master/lnwallet/interface.go > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:23 PM Benjamin Mord wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not finding evidence of segwit in btcd, yet choice of golang is >> appealing to me. Can one run lnd on bitcoind? >> >> More generally speaking, is there a plan for the layer 2 / layer 1 >> protocol binding to be abstracted away from the implementation on either >> side, via SPI or such? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> Lightning-dev mailing list >> Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: