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Let's say i want to test it by using real BTC. How can i do it? The real lightning wallet.

The most convenient Lightning Wallet is probably Wallet of Satoshi, which you can find on the Apple or Android app stores. Once you download it, you can fund it with an on-chain transaction. Once you have funds in the wallet, you should be able to pay for invoices at agora.download.

Also, when we want to self-host our own Agora instance. Should we run our own LND instance, or can we just connect it to any pre-existing LND instance? Do you have any recommendation, which LND instance that is "good" and "trusted"?

If you connected an Agora instance to an LND instance, you would have to trust the person who ran that instance, since they would be in control of funds from payments, so I think the best idea is to run your own LND instance.

I think i should learn more about LND first. I've downloaded the LND's docker image. Then i tried to run the example commands, but it still dont work.

"Unable to find image 'myrepository/lnd:latest' locally docker: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for myrepository/lnd, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied."

I'm also pretty new to Docker though. So maybe i should learn about Docker first before learning about LND.

Can you tell us how to run our own LND instance and how to connect it to Agora? I think, a step-by-step tutorial would be a great help to us as an Agora user who want to self-host it.

If you're trying to set up an lnd instance take a look at raspiblitz it bootstraps the process for you and can be attached to a raspberry pi 4

It's definitely challenging to set up an LND instance. I'll try to find a good one and link to it from our readme!

Have you tested it by using real BTC?

I just read from lnd's documentation (here : https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/saf...) that "As of this writing , lnd is still in beta and it is considered #reckless to put any life altering amounts of BTC into the network.

Are you sure that agora is really safe?

We have tested it using real BTC, so far so good! LND is definitely still in beta, and the Lightning Network itself is still in its infancy, so it's a good idea not to have too much funds in an LND wallet.

We're try to be very careful when developing Agora, and all features are covered by unit and integration tests. However, bugs are always a possibility.

So,if we want to use Wallet of Satoshi as a preferred lightning wallet for our Agora instance, we should connect our Agora instance to Wallet of Satoshi's LND gRPC server.

Where i can find Wallet of Satoshi's LND gRPC server host and port?

Ahh, not quite. I thought you were asking about a wallet for making payments, i.e. for buying content from Agora.

In order to process payments for your Agora instance, you would need to connect it to an LND instance that you ran yourself.

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