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Eclair is a full implementation of a Bitcoin Lightning Network node, written in Scala and developed by ACINQ and other contributors. It complies to the Lightning Network Specifications (BOLTs).

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Can the lightning network be subject to DoS attacks due to message flooding?

In the current implementations of the Lightning network protocol (c-lightning, eclair and lnd), is there any check that stops spamming/flooding of channel_announcement, mode_announcement or channel_update messages? Assume that these messages are…
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How to tell if Lightning nodes are lnd, c-lightning, eclair

I am performing some experiments on the Lightning Testnet Network. I would like to perform the experiment on the 3 main lightning implementations, for which I would like to be able to connect and open a channel with an lnd, c-lightning and eclair…
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Under what conditions would lightning channels be force closed automatically?

I suspect this depends heavily on the implementation, but maybe someone can shed light on the circumstances that would lead an implementation to force close a channel automatically. A user asked this on stacker.news but I know all the wizards are on…
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How can I interact with Eclair from Python?

I want to write some scripts for experiments with Lightning. Python is the language I'm most comfortable with. From the three major implementations, LND has python-grpc and c-lightning has pylightning, but what about Eclair? How can I interact with…
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How can channel policy be missing?

I randomly stumbled upon an example of a channel for which one of the two sides does not have a channel policy. What could be the reason for that? For example, lncli getchaninfo 620048691895336960 returns this (and node1_policy here is null): { …
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How can I open channels with Eclair?

I have set up a Bitcoin Core wallet with 0.3 bitcoins in it and an Eclair lightning node. The rpc userid and password is set plus all the other settings I am supposed to have, hopefully. No problems with the Bitcoin wallet, and the Eclair software…
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How much Bitcoin is needed to start a Lightning node?

I've never used Lightning but can someone recommend how much Bitcoin I need to fund a Lightning node? I will be using the Eclair client. Thanks
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How to obtain your nodeID (QR code) in eclair-mobile?

I want someone to open a direct (no hops between us) channel to me in lightning (she will be the funder, I'll be the fundee). How can I get the QR code of my node in my eclair wallet to show to the funder? I don't find the UI/setting for it.
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Eclair Lightning Node With Core Version 18

When attempting to open channels in lightning network I get the following error: signrawtransaction was removed in v0.18. Clients should transition to signrawtransactionwith key and signrawtransactionwith wallet (code: -32) I know that…
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What are the consequences if I spoof an IP address in the node_announcment message?

According to BOLT 07 the node accountment message looks like this: type: 257 (node_announcement) data: [64:signature] [2:flen] [flen:features] [4:timestamp] [33:node_id] [3:rgb_color] [32:alias] [2:addrlen] [addrlen:addresses] where the…
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How to run the Eclair client in terminal?

I'm trying to install Eclair on my machine according to the instructions for installing Eclair. I downloaded the latest release, unziped the archive but coundn't find "eclair-node--/bin/eclair-node.sh". There is no "bin" subdirectory: $…
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How to get the capacity of remote channel in Eclair?

I want to query an Eclair node for properties of a channel which I'm not a party of. Obviously, this information is in the local view of the network graph and is used for routing. However, the API provides only the following relevant…
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Need help with a .conf file to run a lighting node?

This is my configuration file and i followed all of the instructions for the program but it always gives me the error message about something missing. I don't even know what programming language .conf files are written in. if someone can give me…
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What other lightning nodes are there besides Eclair Core for running a full node lightning?

I realized that in order to receive lightning payments from others, you need to first run a lightning full node. I found this one from Eclair: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair Are there other full node lightning implementations like Eclair node that…
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Eclair Lightning network node is not public

I'm using Eclair and have a conf file with content: eclair.chain=testnet eclair.node-alias=mynodename eclair.node-color=ff0000 eclair.api.enabled=true eclair.server.public-ips=["","
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