Ptarmigan

About

• Lightning Network BOLT implementation
• In Japanese, ptarmigan is called “雷 (thunder) 鳥 (bird)”.

Setup

• Ubuntu 18.04
• bitcoind
  • above v0.17 (getnetworkinfo version > 170000)
  • for bitcoin mainnet / testnet / regtest
  • nested in BIP16 P2SH

Install

sudo apt install -y git autoconf pkg-config build-essential libtool python3 wget jq bc

git clone https://github.com/nayutaco/ptarmigan.git
cd ptarmigan
make full

# takes a lot of time...

NOTE and details

Starting bitcoind

At first, start bitcoind. ptarmd use bitcoind JSON-RPC, so need rpcuser and rpcpassword.

• bitcoin.conf sample

rpcuser=bitcoinuser
rpcpassword=bitcoinpassword
server=1
txindex=1
testnet=1

bitcoind -daemon

# check started chain
bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo | jq -e '.chain'

Starting ptarmd

For starting ptarmd, you should make new node as follows.

cd ptarmigan/install
./new_nodedir.sh [NODENAME]
cd [NODENAME]

# start ptarmigan daemon
#   CHAIN=mainnet, testnet or regtest
../ptarmd --network=testnet

How to use

• How to use
• How to use REST API

Note: ptarmigan has interfaces of CLI, JSON-RPC and REST API. But CLI and JSON-RPC will change in the near future. Try the newer REST API interface.

Dependency

libraries

• git submodule
  • ARMmbed/MbedTLS
  • LMDB/lmdb
  • akheron/jansson
  • benhoyt/inih
  • curl/curl
  • enki/libev
  • luke-jr/libbase58
  • madler/zlib
  • nayutaco/jsonrpc-c - forked from hmng/jsonrpc-c
• download
  • boost (for dijkstra shortest paths)
• reference code
  • sipa/bech32

application

• bitcoind
  • bitcoin-cli
    • getnewaddress
    • sendtoaddress
    • gettxout
  • JSON-RPC
    • getblockcount
    • getrawtransaction
    • signrawtransaction
    • sendrawtransaction
    • gettxout
    • getblock
    • getnewaddress
    • estimatesmartfee

Security

If you find any issues regarding security, please disclose the information by sending an (possibly encrypted) email to security at nayuta dot co. Our PGP key 3C95B178758342844787766AAF91183E1DCC4222.