pseudozach

Oracle Explorer API

List all announcements

curl  -X GET http://localhost:9000/v2/announcements

This endpoint returns a JSON array of announcement objects.

Google Cloud Storage backup tutorial

Introduction

This tutorial shows how to make backups to Google Cloud Storage. The backups are:

automatic
stored off site
incremental

Described here is a variant of what has previously been published under the name "P2EP" or Pay-to-endpoint, in which A pays B but B contributes utxos, i.e. it's a coinjoin-payment.

I'm using the term "payjoin" here to refer to using that idea, but not including a URI/endpoint specific to B, and not allowing (as a merchant would) arbitrary payments, which opens up certain problems around snooping attackers (more on this below). So payjoin just means "A pays B but B actively participates and passes across utxos as extra inputs".

I'll defer a more features-focused and non-tech friendly description of what this means to a later blogpost.

(This is still a work-in-progress)

As of 2019-04-02 the following PR is has been merged into master which implements channel backups

lightningnetwork/lnd#2313

See also https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1112857863393763329

SCB has been merged into the lnd master branch:
lightningnetwork/lnd#2313 …
It allows for a small backup file to be made to recover a
data-lost channel's funds with peer cooperation. The file

Intro

This guide is specific to getting LND 0.5-beta and Bitcoind running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for mainnet. It is aging rapidly and includes steps not necessary on newer versions of LND. As of April 2021 it is very out of date for bitcoind. As of December 2021 it is outdated for LND too.

Original installation guide:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md

This guide is broken into the following sections:

Install bitcoind and set to start automatically
Install development tools and dependancies

2018-03-18: Updating of this guide is taking a backseat to the mainnet version at

https://gist.github.com/bretton/0b22a0503a9eba09df86a23f3d625c13

Intro

This guide is specific to getting LND and bitcoind running on ubuntu 16.04 LTS for testnet.

It does not address mainnet, or using btcd, or neutrino.

Original installation guide:

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	KEY=""

	VIDEO_SOURCE="/home/ubuntu/video3.mp4"

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