plugins/sauron/README.md

Sauron

A Bitcoin backend plugin relying on Esplora.

About

It allows C-lightning to run without needing a local bitcoind, and can be either self-hosted (Esplora is Open Source, and self hosting it is basically a docker one-liner).

This is still a WIP, so is the API C-lightning side. So not to be used for real.

Run

You need to:

• disable the default Bitcoin backend (bcli)
• register sauron
• provide the API endpoint you want to use

Here is a fully reptilian example running against blockstream.info:

lightningd --mainnet --disable-plugin bcli --plugin $PWD/sauron.py --sauron-api-endpoint https://blockstream.info/api/