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This is an collaborative effort to create some teaching materials about the Lightning Network. Eventually all information provided and articles should be written on this wiki for a start we can of course just link to articles.

We start with a loose collection of links.

Tutorials for end users

setting up a lightning node

c-lighting

eclair

ACINQ Eclair install documentation
Setting up Lightning with an Eclair Node from Acinq (on Bitcoin testnet) on a Windows machine
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lnd

securing a lightning node

Materials for developers

Lightning-rfc BOLT

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc
White-Paper: http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
Presentation explaining Construction of Payment Channels (via Revocable Sequence Maturity Contracts) and Construction of the Network (via Hashed Time Locked Contracts): File:Examining_the_lightning_network_on_a_protocol_level.pdf

c-lightning

source code: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
python API Client: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/tree/master/contrib/pylightning
Installation Guide: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md
Documentation for Developers: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/HACKING.md
Mailinglist: https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/c-lightning
irc: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23c-lightning

eclair

lnd

Technical reads

Teaching materials

a really good starting point is the Lightning Network Article on the Bitcoin Wiki
Obviously the first Place we should look at is the Wikiversity Category Lightning Network
Wikimedia commons has an archive of openly licensed talkes and graphics about the lightning network
there is also the Lightning Network Wikipedia article

Materials for Business makers

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 * [https://andrewgriffithsonline.com/blog/180330-how-to-setup-a-lightning-node/ How to Set Up a Lightning Network Node]
 * [https://blockstream.com/2018/02/02/lightning-instant-bitcoin-transacting-tutorial.html Harnessing Lightning For Instant Bitcoin Transacting — A Tutorial]
+* [https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-your-own-portable-plug-in-lightning-node-c4093a4b10fb How to build your own portable plug-in Lightning node!]
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