Re: [Lightning-dev] lnd on bitcoind

2018-01-31 Thread Benjamin Mord
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

Re: [Lightning-dev] lnd on bitcoind

2018-01-31 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
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

[Lightning-dev] lnd on bitcoind

2018-01-31 Thread Benjamin Mord
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