From 1b3eeec8f1dea72f7c8efecc6f5daafc3b1e7c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lokoga1 <31243394+lokoga1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:55:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md for regtest

---
 README.md | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2a60a670d..8e10ffd25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ In order to start `lightningd` you will need to have a local `bitcoind` node run
 bitcoind -daemon -testnet
 ```
 
-Once `bitcoind` has synchronized with the testnet/regtest network, you can start `lightningd` with the following command:
+Wait until `bitcoind` has synchronized with the testnet network. In case you use regtest, make sure you generate at least 432 blocks to activate SegWit. 
+
+You can start `lightningd` with the following command:
 
 ```
-lightningd/lightningd --log-level=debug
+lightningd/lightningd --network=testnet --log-level=debug
 ```
 
 ### Opening a channel on the Bitcoin testnet