readme: First pass at homogenizing the readme a bit

We haven't touched the readme for quite some time, just randomly added to it,
and it's starting to show. This is my attempt at cleaning it up a bit (more to
come):

 - No longer discourage users from running on mainnet, we're way beyond that
   point.
 - No longer instruct users to build from source, when we have real binary
   releases, on the PPA, the releases page and the docker images.
 - Cut down on the docker specific instructions, they are taking a lot of room
   when only a minority will likely run them that way
 - Generally make the README more of a dispatch for more in-depth
   documentation rather than trying to address everything right on the
   front-page.
 - Add a bit of context about running on top of a pruned node

Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>


Header from folded patch 'fixup!_readme__first_pass_at_homogenizing_the_readme_a_bit.patch':

fixup! readme: First pass at homogenizing the readme a bit
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Christian Decker
2019-08-09 16:14:01 +09:30
committed by Rusty Russell
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@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ For actually doing development and running the tests, you will also need:
* asciidoc: for formatting the man pages (if you change them)
* valgrind: for extra debugging checks
You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness and
estimatesmartfee economical node, such as the 0.15 or above.
You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness and `estimatesmartfee` economical node, such as the 0.16 or above.
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