1. Please start here!
2. Set up Zap Desktop
3. Open a channel with Zap Desktop
4. Send a payment with the Joule Chrome extension

1. ~300 GB of download bandwidth
2. ~10 GB of disk space (~300 GB if you want the Bitcoin transaction index, makes for a faster LND)
3. Windows 7+ or macOS 10.12.6+

Please submit a pull request if you want to add Linux support! Next year is the Year of Desktop Linux...

Download and open the latest release for your operating system: https://github.com/PierreRochard/node-launcher/releases

1. Creates a node launcher data directory
   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Node Launcher/
   • Windows: %localappdata%/Node\ Launcher/
2. Finds available ports for Bitcoin and LND, testnet and mainnet
3. When launched, Bitcoin nodes use the datadir directory specified in bitcoin.conf (or the default data directory)
4. If you don't have >300 GB of disk space free, Bitcoin nodes will fall back to pruned
5. Pruning still requires downloading data, so make sure you can handle downloading ~300 GB of data

0. git clone https://github.com/PierreRochard/node-launcher && cd node-launcher
1. Setup a Python 3.7+ virtual environment
2. python -m pip install --index-url=http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/dev/latest pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. python setup.py develop
5. python run.py

pytest tests

To include tests with network calls to GitHub: pytest tests --run_slow

macOS: pyinstaller run-mac.spec

Windows: pyinstaller run-windows.spec (pyinstaller packaging only works on Windows 7)

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/grpc/python.md