Resources
Generic info
- How Lightning Works
- Wikipedia
- Lightning Labs
- lightning.network summary
- LNRoute resource overview site
Node info
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Add more node explorers
- 1ML network overview, statistics, like a Lightning Network explorer
- Recksplorer, a visual network representation
- Find all explorers here
Mailing lists
- lightning-dev
- OpTech newsletter
- ION News, Get Lightning Network news, project announcements, reviews, and tutorials.
Chats
- LND Developer Slack (if the link expires, contact me)
- irc.freenode.net #lnd
- Lightning Subreddit
- Telegram group @LightnigNetwork (1000+ members)
Country-specific
Tutorials
- Setting up and Testing LND with the Testnet Lightning Faucet (Testnet)
- Setting up a local Lightning cluster
- How to send payments via CLI on the Lightning Network
- Using the LND web client
- Using LND gRPC client
- Integrating Lightning into a server-side web application
- How to use a Python gRPC Client with LND
- How to use a Javascript GRPC client with LND
- Setup LND and Bitcoind on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Podcasts
- The Lite Podcast (RSS)
- Episode on Lightning on Epicenter Podcast
- Episode on Lightning (Part 1) on LTB Podcast with Andreas Antonopoulos
- Episode on Lightning (Part 2) on LTB Podcast with Andreas Antonopoulos
- Episode on Lightning (1 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #92 An Introduction to the Lightning Network with Christian Decker
- Episode on Lightning (2 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #93 Lightning Design and UX with Jack Mallers
- Episode on Lightning (3 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #94 The Economics of Lightning with Nic Carter & Pierre Rochard
- Episode on Lightning (4 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #95 Using Lightning in Retail with Sergej Kotliar From Bitrefill
- Episode on Lightning (5 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #97 Lightning & The Law with Peter Van Valkenburg
- Episode on Lightning (6 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #98 Lightning Critique: FUD or Fair? with Peter Rizun
- Episode on Lightning (7 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #99 Why HTLCs are Harmful with Dan Robinson
- Episode on Lightning (8 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #100 The Limitations of the Lightning Network with Tadge Dryja
- Episode on Lightning (9 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #101 Hodl Hodl Lightning Announcement with Roman Snitko and Max Keidun
- Episode on Lightning (10 of N) on LTB Podcast What Bitcoin Did #102 The Tech Coming to Lightning with Christian Decker
Development
Books
- The (open source) Lightning Network Book: To be written in 2019, open source, Community Project, run by Rene Pickhardt, watch this for details
Videos
- Andreas Antonopoulos explains Lightning Network
- Andreas Antonopoulos on Misconceptions about Lightning Network
- Rene Pickhardt YouTube Channel Lightning Video tutorials, building Lightning App
- wikimedia Lightning media, videos and PDFs
- Elisabeth Stark on Lightning (intro)
- Lightning Network Tech Talk at Coinbase by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja - A summary explanation of scaling blockchains with Lightning presented at Coinbase
- Network as a Directed Graph: Single-Funded Channel Network Topology by Tadge Dryja - A presentation about the practical considerations for the design of the initial Lightning Network software.
- Lightning Network Deep Dive by Laolu Osuntokun - A deep dive into the technical functionality of the Lightning Network with a "live" demo.
- Lightning Network Deep Dive at Scaling Bitcoin by Laolu Osuntokun - A technical deep dive into using and understanding Lightning
- How Bitcoin Lightning Channels Work
Resource Lists, Meta-lists
- Awesome list curated resources
- messari.io curated resources
Wikis
Q&A, FAQ
Libraries
Below links via LightingHood.com
- Lightning-integration] (Lightning integration testing framework)
- Lightning-charge] (A drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments in javascript)
- Lightning-charge-client-js] (JavaScript client for lightning charge)
- Lightning-charge-client-php] (PHP client for lightning-charge)
- Lightning-payencode] (QR code ready encoding for requesting lightning payments)
- Lseed] (A DNS seed for the Lightning Network)
- WooCommerce-gateway-lightning] (WooCommerce gateway for lightning payments)
- Lnrpc-client] (Javascript RPC client for LND)
- lnrpc.rb] (Ruby gRPC client gem for LND)
- In-service] (Lightning REST service)
- LightningJ] (LND integration API for Java)
- Lightning-rest] (Rest server for lightningd RPC)
- WordPress-lightning-publisher] (Lightning publisher for WordPress)
- FileBazaar] ( A system for selling files such as documents, images and videos)
- Paypercall] (Toolkit for Lightning that enables micropayments for individual API calls)
- Ifpaytt] (Allows web developers using IFTTT to request payments for service usage)
- Sitzprobe] (A plugin that sends test payments to find and deprecate channels that can’t route payments)
- jarret/raspi-uart-waveshare] (A library for interfacing with the 4.3inch UART e-Paper from Raspberry Pi 2/3 via Python3)