| latest-revision | original-author | created | status | title | contributors | type | description | discussions-to | category |
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2019-01-27T00:00:00.000Z |
Ryan Shea (ryan-shea) |
2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |
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c-lightning |
Ryan Shea (ryan-shea) |
article |
GitHub URL |
lightning-software |
c-lightning is a a BOLT-compliant Lightning implementation by Blockstream [2] written in C. Version 1 of c-lightning was released on August 8th, 2015, and has since been under active beta development. c-lightning runs on Linux.
On top of complying with all BOLT standards, c-lightning is developing an architecture for plugins. Plugins can be built to extend the c-lightning command line API.
There are a number of developer tools, libraries and plugins that exist for the c-lightning implementation.
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[1] Blockstream
[2] c-lightning