Bitcoin Lightning Joule Browser Extension
Lightning Joule is an awesome web browser plugin being developed by William O'Beirne
If you get stuck at any point in this guide (or after!) please contact me https://github.com/lightning-power-users/node-launcher/issues/new so that I can help you out.
If you want to help improve Joule, check out their project on GitHub! https://github.com/wbobeirne/joule-extension
If any of this is not clear, please let me know so that I can improve it!
1. Set up your BTC/LN nodes
2. Install the Joule Lightning extension
Go to https://lightningjoule.com/ and install for your web browser
Click on the Joule icon, click on Get started
Click on Local node
In the Node Launcher system tray menu, click on the Copy Node URL (REST) button in the Joule section
Paste the Node URL into the text box, click on the link in the error message
Click on the Advanced button
Click on Proceed to localhost (unsafe)
You make sure the page has the same message as the one below, and close the tab
Click the Connect button
In the Node Launcher system tray menu click on Show Macaroons
Drag the admin.macaroon and readonly.macaroon into the Joule interface
Click Continue
Click Confirm
Create a Password for Joule (this is separate from your LND seed and wallet passwords), click Continue
Click on the Deposit button
Send BTC to the address provided
You should now see an inbound transaction on the Transactions tab
Wait for a few blocks to go by (~30 minutes)
Click on the hamburger menu at the top right, click on Open channel
Copy
0331f80652fb840239df8dc99205792bba2e559a05469915804c08420230e23c7c@lightningpowerusers.com:9735Paste it into the <pubkey>@host field
Enter your desired outbound capacity (I recommend between 500,000 satoshis ~ $20 and 16,500,000 satoshis ~ $600) and click the Open Channel button
In the Transactions tab it may look like you sent me money, you did not — the interface is saying that you moved on-chain satoshis to off-chain as you opened a channel.
Wait for a few blocks to go by (~30 minutes)
On the Channels tab you’ll see your off-chain balance
Now you have outbound capacity! This means you can send payments, but you can’t receive payments until you have inbound capacity.
You can get inbound capacity by either sending payments or having other nodes open a channel with you.
Go send your first Lightning payment and get inbound capacity with our guide below 👇
If you got stuck at any point in this guide (or after!) please contact me https://github.com/lightning-power-users/node-launcher/issues/new so that I can help you out.
If any of this is not clear, please let me know so that I can improve it!
