Run A Bitcoin / Lightning Node On Your Laptop

We will discuss three topics in this workshop-style meetup: 1. How do Bitcoin nodes interact with each other? In particular, I will show you how to use Wireshark (https://www.wireshark.org/) to observe all network requests your Bitcoin node makes to its peers. 2. Demonstrate a Python script that can join the Bitcoin network. It will be able to send and receive some of the messages we observed using Wireshark. 3. Show you a project (https://github.com/lightning-platform/bitcoin-lightning-docker) …