Running Your Node | Megalith Lightning Docs

Starting and stopping LND

Learn how to safely stop and restart LND and the supporting Docker containers without confusing your node state or losing visibility.

Move funds onto your new node so you can open channels, manage liquidity, and begin using your Lightning setup for real payments.

The concept of “cost“ when applied to opening a Lightning channel is not straightforward, but it is also imperative that you understand it.

Think through practical channel sizes for a new Lightning node, including fees, usability, routing, and avoiding tiny channels.

No matter what your node purpose is, you're going to want to open a channel.

Now you have an open channel. Let's put it to work and send a small payment from your node. Let's donate $1 in BTC to the Human Rights Foundation!

Add LNDG to your Docker setup so you can inspect channels, monitor balances, and manage your node through a useful web interface.

Your node is now running, and it might feel like it took a lot of learning to get here, but really, you're just at the beginning.

In looking at active channels, we reviewed inbound and outbound liquidity for the one channel we opened on our new node.