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Here are some improvements to the docs to help with the issues I ran into when trying it out for myself.
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justmoon authored Apr 21, 2017
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`refundaddr` is your own wallet address where the balance of coins will be
sent when the channel is eventually closed.
sent when the channel is eventually closed. Note that bitcoinmoonbeam.org is
running on testnet, so this must be a regular Bitcoin testnet address.

The funding address and channel ID are printed if successful.

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./bin/mbclient fund <id> <txid> <vout> <amount_in_satoshi>
```

* `id` is the ID of the channel, you can find it by running `bin/mbclient list -a`
* `txid` is the ID of the funding Bitcoin transaction
* `vout` denotes the output of the transaction that contains the channel funding address, e.g. `0` for the first output
* `amount_in_satoshi` is the number of satoshis (1 satoshi = 0.00000001 bitcoin) to send

If successful, the channel is now open. To see your open channels, run:

```bash
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