<p>LND is experimenting with the new Neutrino BIP157-style SPV at the moment. Check out their repo for news. </p>

<p>Both Bitcoin Lightning Wallet and Eclair on Android use a trusted server for syncing with the network.</p>

<p>BIP-37-style SPV is not a good choice for anyone (because of privacy issues), but particularly not for Lightning wallets, because it is very easy for an adversary to help a channel partner in cheating by withholding critical transactions that your wallet would have to respond to.</p>

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2019-03-26T08:58:44.943Z
2019-03-26T08:58:44.943Z
stefanwouldgo
<p>is there a way to run a Lightning node on a Bitcoin SPV node at the moment? I've read that both lnd and c-lightning need a Bitcoin Fullnode at this time.
This might seem ignorant but i don't want to go through the hassle of syncing the whole chain for a small test setup right now. The Bitcoin Lightning Wallet for Android for example claims to run on a Bitcoin SPV so there has to be a way.</p>

<p>Thanks, any help is appreciated.</p>

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2019-03-27T07:05:14.890Z
Possible duplicate of [Are lightweight LN wallets vulnerable to transaction withholding?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/85557/are-lightweight-ln-wallets-vulnerable-to-transaction-withholding)
Chris Chen
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Lightning node on a Bitcoin SPV
xDreamCoding
# Lightning node on a Bitcoin SPV

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-25)

is there a way to run a Lightning node on a Bitcoin SPV node at the moment? I've read that both lnd and c-lightning need a Bitcoin Fullnode at this time.
This might seem ignorant but i don't want to go through the hassle of syncing the whole chain for a small test setup right now. The Bitcoin Lightning Wallet for Android for example claims to run on a Bitcoin SPV so there has to be a way.

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

**Tags:** lightning-network, spv, lightning-network-daemon, thin-clients, core-lightning

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Possible duplicate of [Are lightweight LN wallets vulnerable to transaction withholding?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/85557/are-lightweight-ln-wallets-vulnerable-to-transaction-withholding)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2019-03-26. Score: 2

LND is experimenting with the new Neutrino BIP157-style SPV at the moment. Check out their repo for news.

Both Bitcoin Lightning Wallet and Eclair on Android use a trusted server for syncing with the network.

BIP-37-style SPV is not a good choice for anyone (because of privacy issues), but particularly not for Lightning wallets, because it is very easy for an adversary to help a channel partner in cheating by withholding critical transactions that your wallet would have to respond to.


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