Workshop

Adopting Bitcoin '23 repository for the workshop session about NodeGuard

DISCLAIMER: This readme has been run and tested on macOS, it shall be equivalent in Linux

Requisites

Follow the steps below to setup the environment for the workshop session.

git clone https://github.com/Elenpay/workshop-nodeguard

Open polar lightning
Import Network-> Select devnetwork.zip
Start the network and enable auto mining
Unzip devnetwork.zip to regtest.polar
```
unzip devnetwork.zip -d regtest.polar
```
Unzip loopd.zip to .loop
```
unzip loopd.zip
```
Bring up the docker-compose in the following order, wait a couple of seconds

docker-compose up nbxplorer -d

docker compose up nodeguard loopserver nodeguard_postgres loopserver -d

Create an api key for liquidator in NG API -> New
Paste the api key in the docker.compose.yaml, replace NODEGUARD_API_KEY env var of liquidator
Start the remaining components

docker-compose up -d

Add carol and alice nodes, take the info from polar. Make sure to point to host.docker.internal:grpcport of each node as endpoints, also the macaroon must be in hex
Create a new finance manager user and set the keys, use NodeGuard companion to ease this process.
Create a multisig wallet with the new created key and fund it with polar
Open a channel and sign it using nodeguard companion
Set up liquidity rules for the new channel