Setting Up A Bitcoin And Lightning Network Daemon On Mac From Source.

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Written by Masiko Timothy

Hey, If you are here you might be already interested in getting yourself set up on this cool Lightning network mission , I found quite a couple of challenges in getting an easy guide to help me get setup much faster so I decided to write this article. Enjoy!

This guide describes how to build bitcoind (without GUI) and lnd on mac

This is also heavily based on Michael Goldstein article and Bitcoin MacOS Build Guide

Step one

Update your build tools with the following command from your terminal

xcode-select --install

You can skip it incase you are certain your build tools are up to date

We shall be using brew so ensure you have brew installed on your laptop

Timothy continues his easy guide to starting your lightning network journey here