Node Academy: Chapter 5 - Get started with LND

Join this exciting journey as we navigate the intricacies of running LND! This session focuses on setting up LND as a background process, unlocking the wallet, checking its status, and retrieving crucial information. We'll walk through depositing Bitcoin into your node and opening a channel via the command line. We'll also ensure Bitcoin Core is up and running on our machine. To dive deeper, we will create a wallet, sync our node to the network graph, grab the node's URI and even generate our first invoice. This step-by-step process is packed with practical exercises, making it perfect for both beginners and seasoned Bitcoin node runners.