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[[ch02_getting_started]]
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== Getting Started
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// TODO intro paragraph - no empty headings!
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==== Choosing a Lightning Network Wallet
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* full nodes (c-lightning, eclair, lnd) + remote controls
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* phone / desktop wallets (SPV clients)
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* custodial services / wallets?
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// Mastering bitcoin also had a section about custodial web wallets. So it might be fair to include them.
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==== Quick Start
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* We start with a mobile wallet like eclair
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* Verify the authenticity of the software (e.g. App store / Acinq website / github)
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** discuss that a general phising scheme might consist of tricking you to download a similar looking software
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[[getting_first_bitcoin]]
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==== Getting Your First Bitcoin on the Lightning Network
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* Trade fiat for Bitcoin (as in Mastering Bitcoin)
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[[using_own_bitcoin]]
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==== Process for people who already own Bitcoin ====
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* send bitcoin to lightning wallet (1 onchain transaction - soon nodes / wallets may support funding a channel directly without sending bitcoins to the lightning network wallet first)
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* find a node to open a channel with (Node explorer / Autopilots / ...)
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* open a connection
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* open a channel
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* wait confirmations for the channel to become operational
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[[sending_receiving]]
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==== Sending and Receiving Bitcoin on the Lightning Network
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* have the person who helps onbording open a payment channel (As complex as a bitcoin transaction)
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* showcase how the funds now can be send back and forth
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** create invoice
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** decode invoice (do always before paying!)
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** pay an invoice
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* showcase how an arbitrary invoice can be paid e.g. https://voting.ln.rene-pickhardt.de
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