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The way I understand it is that it will be like a second account or wallet. You will just transfer funds from your main wallet to your Lightning wallet with the click (or tap) of a button and it will open a channel, so in that sense, it's automatic because you don't have to know what's going on behind the scenes. The thing I'm unclear on is who do you open a channel with and is that automatic or do you have to choose. From my experience using a testnet wallet, you don't even see that part. You just add funds, copy the merchant's Lightning address, and send it. If the real implementation will be anything like that, it will be dead simple.
Comment by throckmortonsign at 22/12/2017 at 03:34 UTC
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Yes the goal will be it's that simple. They were using irc announcements (like Bitcoin originally did) for new nodes, but I think they've moved on to more advanced peer discovery now (I haven't had time to catch up on the latest). Suffice to say that stuff should be highly automated and only be worried about by power users and people trying to hack new functionality into the protocol. This is exciting stuff. Very much like early Bitcoin theres a flurry of exciting tech that could be based on this.