Enable SIMNET

[kilrau]

"Simnet is a development/test network run locally that allows us to generate blocks at will, so we can avoid the time-consuming process of waiting for blocks to arrive for any on-chain functionality."

This task is about

• researching and testing SIMNET on litecoin lightning
• write instructions how to use it as an alternative to testnet

[kilrau]

Check github.com/sparkswap/broker/, they got it working somehow.

[offerm]

The PR is very simple. I have it ready.

See LND issue #1830

[kilrau]

Sweet, please submit the PR, once it's merged and working we can close this 😎

[offerm]

Opened PR #1865 (LND). lightningnetwork/lnd#1865

Let's see how easy it would be to get it merged.

@kilrau How would you like me to progress with this?

We can wait to see if they accept it to LND (may take time since they classified as P4. I have good relations now with Conner and Johan so this may help).

Alternatively, we cherry pick this commit to the resolver branch, but this will make the resolver branch "dirty" and harder to review.

Can also create another branch "resolver-litecoin-simnet" that we can use.

Need to decide as this is blocking the second task:

write instructions how to use it as an alternative to testnet

[kilrau]

I will play around with docker later, seems simnet on litecoin is working there already. If that's the case we can wait for the merge into lnd master.

[kilrau]

@offerm which route you wanna go? Conner's suggestion to fix ltcd as well? Maybe you can do that and we'll use these forks for now.

[sangaman]

Moving this to alpha.2 because it won't be ready for the alpha.1 tag. Still a top priority though I'd say, just not a simple one by any means.

[offerm]

@sangaman what is missing on this? the test servers are using simnet and we can do too.

[sangaman]

Let's discuss on the call.