đź“… Original date posted:2016-10-05
đź“ť Original message:
Hi
Thanks for the demo Christian.
Randy, you might like to know that I noticed that lightningd is using
port 8334 and that namecoind has used port 8334 since it was launched in
May 2011.
On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 16:00 +0000, Christian Decker wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
>
> The following blog post describes our recent use of an v0.5 C
> lightning prototype, showcasing a completed transaction that included
> invoicing, multi-hop payment, and item delivery. The included links
> provide additional content and supporting code, as well as a short
> video. This will be going live on Blockstream’s blog shortly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rusty Russell
> Dr. Christian Decker
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Lightning First Strike: Christian Bought a Cat
> Rusty Russell, October 5, 2016
> https://blockstream.com/blog/
>
>
> This story of feline acquisition begins with the demonstration of v0.5
> of the C lightning prototype, a lightning-fast micropayment system
> we've been working on here at Blockstream (see
> https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning). To test the impending
> prototype, we set up a web server to create invoices for test bitcoin
> payments over the lightning network, and in return to offer a cat, or
> at least an ASCII cat picture.
>
>
> Dr. Christian Decker, another Blockstream developer working with me,
> purchased the feline picture using 0.01 test bitcoin to open a
> lightning channel with the server (see
> http://tbtc.blockr.io/tx/info/c909f1fb5e971e32ae20e34cf6cf766f7237bfadf75aa6646a42063b9acba82b), which was mined in test block 928335 (see http://tbtc.blockr.io/block/info/928335). After a single confirmation, he paid the invoice with a 100 satoshi transfer. Afterward, he accessed the link to find his cat picture (see http://128.199.80.48/?43744e221d794dcc0e61f8a757fa0346). He discovered it was an ASCII picture, with a nice bonus. Two cats! Christian promptly opened another node, connected to the first node, and bought a second copy of the cat picture by routing through the previous node.
>
>
> What Happened Behind The Scenes?
>
>
> A Digital Ocean server runs Apache, bitcoind, and lightningd. When
> accessed, a CGI script calls 'lightning-cli invoice 100000' to create
> an invoice, which is presented to the user (see
> https://github.com/rustyrussell/lightning-cat/blob/cc206788c552e2f7feb616170178c7ec38ccedb5/catsearch.sh). The user clicks through a unique link, and if 'lightning-cli listinvoice' indicates that the invoice was paid, the script presents the picture.
>
> This is the first end-to-end test of a lightning micropayment network,
> including invoicing, multi-hop payment, and item delivery. It is very
> different from Acinq's recent simulation (see
> http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-lightning-network-milestone-acinq-routing/) of a lightning routing algorithm called Flare (See http://bitfury.com/content/5-white-papers-research/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf). Their work shows how, by way of simple analogy, one can create a streetmap to get from A to B in an efficient way, while the test we've demonstrated here with v0.5 of the C lightning prototype has us actually walking that path on the street.
>
> What's Next?
>
>
> We found a few bugs in corner cases and hit some known FIXMEs, but
> also made lightningd more robust against misconfiguration. There are a
> few rough edges that we'd still like to smooth and some documentation
> that we'd like to write before the 0.5 release. Then, we want to
> create libraries to allow web developers to play with constructing
> their own cat picture stores!
>
> In the meantime, here's a short video that shows this working (see
> https://asciinema.org/a/ergldrzd43j08klix08hf9yl3). The low production
> value fits with the ASCII art.
> _______________________________________________
> Lightning-dev mailing list
> Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
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