Running Your Node | Megalith Lightning Docs

📄️ Starting and stopping LND

Where we are now

OK! We are ready to start digging into our node.

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

This is one of the most common questions for new node runners.

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!

Up until now we've interacted with our LND node only from the command line.

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.