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Payments across RPi3 Lightning testnet via Mobile Phone

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Part II Welcome to Part II of the how-to for building and operating a lightning node on a Raspberry Pi3. After completing Part I the Pi3 built with an operational and synced bitcoin node/blockchain. That is btcd bitcoin blockchain, and lightning daemon lnd deployed and active on testnet. This howto will demonstrate using your phone over its mobile network connecting to a Pi3 hosted lightning node creating a decentralized dynamic channel to a website that takes bitcoin payment.  All without any bank or credit clearance company in-line.  This section walks through adding funds, creating channels, and making payments across testnet for products. The intent is to provide an easy demonstration of how the world can work without centralised banking and payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard.  To make use of lightning on testnet we have to have to add funds to a testnet wallet and and then after to a channel between your wallet and a lightning node - whic...
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Building Bitcoin Lightning testnet node on Raspberry Pi3

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Part I of II Lightning testnet node on Raspberry Pi3 Written by Danny Hallwood <danny@hallwood.co.uk> Notes for a repeatable build of a Lightning node onto the bitcoin testnet Credits to Linux, raspbian, btcd, lnd, lightning network Lightning is a really exciting development which could transform how we interact with our wealth on a day to day basis, providing peer to peer payment between parties in an affordable, secure, and convenient manner without dependency on banks and traditional payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Raspberry Pi3 is a $35 armv7 computer with a large and active community. Its low cost and mature opensource support lowers the cost barrier for the public to take an active interest in the early development, testing, and tinkering of the Lightning network. Lightning is an off-chain solution to facilitate near free and instant bitcoin and other blockchain type transactions. Lightning makes use of segwit wallets and addressing to achieve ...
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