{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232","id":306156434,"number":1232,"title":"Bitcoin's Highly-Anticipated Lightning Network Goes Live","user":{"login":"realcryptominer","id":36897988,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/36897988?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer","html_url":"https://github.com/realcryptominer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/realcryptominer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":223861690,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c","default":true}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2018-03-17T13:27:00Z","updated_at":"2018-03-17T15:21:37Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"Ok So here is a great news...\r\n\r\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2018/03/15/bitcoins-highly-anticipated-lightning-network-goes-live-as-startup-raises-2-5-million/\r\n\r\nNow, I am already running lightning testnet on Linux Ubuntu 17.10 VPS since last more than a month and successfully buying starblocks coffee.\r\n\r\nAs far as my understanding to run bitcoin testnet and lightning testnet I needed to run following two commands.\r\n\r\nbitcoind -testnet -daemon\r\n\r\nlightningd/lightningd --network=testnet --log-level=debug\r\n\r\n--------------\r\n\r\nNow if I want to run bitcoin main blockchain and lightning node that went live on 15th March, I need to run following two commands instead of the above. [Of course, I will remove all the previous installation and do a fresh start on my Linux Ubuntu VPS!]\r\n\r\nbitcoind -daemon\r\n\r\nlightningd/lightningd --network=bitcoin --log-level=debug\r\n\r\n---------------\r\n\r\nIs this right?\r\nCorrect me if I am wrong?\r\n\r\nOr Do I need to do something else for the lightning mainnet?\r\n\r\nKindly help!"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/comments/373928126","html_url":"https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232#issuecomment-373928126","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/1232","id":373928126,"user":{"login":"Ulmo","id":224672,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/224672?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo","html_url":"https://github.com/Ulmo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ulmo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-03-17T15:21:37Z","updated_at":"2018-03-17T15:21:37Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"My summary answer to the original question is that the announcement that \"Lightning is live on Bitcoin\" is outdated, since C-Lightning got there first, but that LND leapfrogged C-Lightning's readiness level with LND's announcement that their Beta is out and nominally considered more acceptable for real funds risks than C-Lightning, however, so far, I have not lost considerable funds to my knowledge using C-Lightning on Mainnet in its dev alpha stages on two nodes in the last many weeks (has it been months yet?), although it did require some internal database probing and bug fixes along the way for that to be true."}}
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