Trying to send bitcoin to c-lightning. Getting "Invalid Bitcoin Address"

BobLawblaw

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Quote from: ncsupanda on February 08, 2018, 11:31:16 AM

Change the 1 to a 0? This would show a list of addresses in your wallet with 0 confirmations as opposed to 1.

Only shows the initial wallet.dat address, and the segwit address I created and funded.

No luck for displaying anything newaddr related Sad

Hrmph. I'll try a very small 100 sat transfer later on tonight and see if that doesn't get the address showing up properly.

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Quote from: ncsupanda on February 08, 2018, 10:53:00 AM

If you haven't sent any funds to the address, then isn't listreceivedbyaddress working correctly?

Fair point. Ok, so it's properly communicating directly with bitcoind then.

In which case, my question then becomes, "How do I see a list of address that have been generated with newaddr and are under my control ?"

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Quote from: BobLawblaw on February 08, 2018, 11:15:14 AM

Quote from: ncsupanda on February 08, 2018, 10:53:00 AM

If you haven't sent any funds to the address, then isn't listreceivedbyaddress working correctly?

Fair point. Ok, so it's properly communicating directly with bitcoind then.

In which case, my question then becomes, "How do I see a list of address that have been generated with newaddr and are under my control ?"

Change the 1 to a 0? This would show a list of addresses in your wallet with 0 confirmations as opposed to 1.

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Quote from: jimbobway on January 22, 2018, 08:00:18 PM

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First you need to transfer some funds to lightningd so that it can open a channel:

# Returns an address

cli/lightning-cli newaddr

# Returns a transaction id
bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress

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When I do bitcoin-cli listreceivedbyaddress 1 true, I'm not seeing the "newaddr" showing up in bitcoind, and can't seem to find how lightning handles its generated addresses.
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If you haven't sent any funds to the address, then isn't listreceivedbyaddress working correctly?

jimbobway

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I figured it out. By default c-lightning runs on testnet. To run on mainnet you have to use:

lightningd/lightningd --network=bitcoin

The address started with a '2' because it's a testnet address.

jimbobway

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I just tripled checked my copy and paste and I did not miss any characters. Huh

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Just writing some code

You probably missed a character.

jimbobway

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I'm following these instructions at https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning to open a channel:

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First you need to transfer some funds to lightningd so that it can open a channel:

# Returns an address

cli/lightning-cli newaddr

# Returns a transaction id
bitcoin-cli -testnet sendtoaddress

Lightning gives me a new address that starts with a "2", 2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

I try to send bitcoins to this address using sendtoaddress but it says:

error code: -5
error message:
Invalid Bitcoin address

What am I doing wrong?

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