<p>Yes, the official Bitcoin Core v0.16.0 binary works perfectly well with LND, no self compiling necessary.</p>

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2018-05-03T19:39:49.940Z
any idea what the problem might be on my [prior question](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/74687/lightning-node-daemon-hangs-at-waiting-for-chain-backend-to-finish-sync-start)?  Have you seen lnd 0.4.1-beta working with bitcoind 0.16.0?
Hannah Vernon
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2018-05-03T19:40:25.377Z
I cannot really answer that, two suggestions: 1) ask in the LND slack (see invitation link at  the bottom of the [Lightning Labs engineering](https://lightning.engineering/) page), or 2) check my [Raspberry Pi guide](https://github.com/Stadicus/guides/blob/master/raspibolt/README.md) for key differences, it works with the same basic setup.
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2018-05-03T19:38:31.963Z
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<p>In my <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/74687/lightning-node-daemon-hangs-at-waiting-for-chain-backend-to-finish-sync-start">previous question</a>, I'm wondering why Lightning Networks <code>lnd</code> cannot talk to my Bitcoin Core <code>bitcoind</code> backend.</p>

<p>The docs for <code>lnd</code> says it <a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#running-lnd-using-the-bitcoind-or-litecoind-backend" rel="nofollow noreferrer">requires ZeroMQ compiled into <code>bitcoind</code></a>.  Does the binary version of <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitcoin Core <code>bitcoind</code> 0.16.0</a> contain ZeroMQ?</p>

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ZeroMQ support in Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 out-of-the-box?
Hannah Vernon
# ZeroMQ support in Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 out-of-the-box?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-03)

In my [previous question](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/74687/lightning-node-daemon-hangs-at-waiting-for-chain-backend-to-finish-sync-start), I'm wondering why Lightning Networks `lnd` cannot talk to my Bitcoin Core `bitcoind` backend.

The docs for `lnd` says it [requires ZeroMQ compiled into `bitcoind`](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#running-lnd-using-the-bitcoind-or-litecoind-backend). Does the binary version of [Bitcoin Core `bitcoind` 0.16.0](https://bitcoin.org/en/download) contain ZeroMQ?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, lightning-network, zeromq, lightning-network-daemon


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Yes, the official Bitcoin Core v0.16.0 binary works perfectly well with LND, no self compiling necessary.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: any idea what the problem might be on my [prior question](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/74687/lightning-node-daemon-hangs-at-waiting-for-chain-backend-to-finish-sync-start)?  Have you seen lnd 0.4.1-beta working with bitcoind 0.16.0?  
> **username_1**: I cannot really answer that, two suggestions: 1) ask in the LND slack (see invitation link at  the bottom of the [Lightning Labs engineering](https://lightning.engineering/) page), or 2) check my [Raspberry Pi guide](https://github.com/username_1/guides/blob/master/raspibolt/README.md) for key differences, it works with the same basic setup.  

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