Benjamin Mord [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-31 📝 Original message: Thanks - the installation ...

📅 Original date posted:2018-01-31
📝 Original message:
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 <laolu32 at gmail.com>
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 <ben at mord.io> 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
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