watchtower: remove local watchtower

watchtower.rst

@@ -4,51 +4,14 @@ How to setup a watchtower
 This tutorial will show you how to configure your Electrum daemon as a
 watchtower for your lightning wallet.  It is written for Electrum 4.0.
 
-
-Local and remote watchtower
----------------------------
-
-There are two ways a watchtower can be configured in Electrum: Local
-or Remote.
-
-A local watchtower runs in the same process as your Electrum client,
-and can be activated in the preferences dialog of the Qt GUI. A local
-watchtower creates a database of pre-signed breach remedy
-transactions, and it watches the funding addresses of your
-channels. When your lightning wallet is open, breach remedy
-transactions will be signed and added to the watchtower database.
-Once you your wallet is closed, assuming Electrum is still running,
-the local watchtower will watch your channels, and it will broadcast
-pre-signed breach remedy transactions if needed.
-
-A remote watchtower is a separate Electrum process, that runs on
-another computer. To setup a remote watchtower, you need to configure
+A watchtower is a separate Electrum process, that runs on
+another computer. To setup a watchtower, you need to configure
 an Electrum daemon, and to enter its URL in your preferences.
 
 
-How to configure a local watchtower
-------------------------------------
-
-In your preferences, check 'Run a local watchtower'
 
-.. image:: png/watchtower_settings.png
-
-
-The second option ensures that Electrum keeps running on your computer
-after you have closed your wallet file. If you click it, the Electrum
-icon should persist in your taskbar after you have closed all your
-Electrum windows.
-
-
-If you have open channels and a local watchtower, Electrum will
-populate the watchtower database.  You can view the database size and
-number of transactions per channel if you open the watchtower window:
-
-.. image:: png/watchtower_window.png
-
-
-How to configure a remote watchtower
-------------------------------------
+How to configure a watchtower
+-----------------------------
 
 You want to run your watchtower on a machine that is regularly
 connected to the internet.
@@ -68,7 +31,7 @@ Second, configure your watchtower with an address, username and password:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    electrum setconfig -o run_local_watchtower true
+    electrum setconfig -o run_watchtower true
     electrum setconfig -o watchtower_user myusername
     electrum setconfig -o watchtower_password mypassword
     electrum setconfig -o watchtower_address example.com:12345
@@ -81,13 +44,21 @@ Then start the daemon:
 
 
 The watchtower database contains presigned transactions, and is in
-~/.electrum/watchtower_db If you open the GUI you can see hown many
-channels and transactions are in the database.
+~/.electrum/watchtower_db
+
 
 Note that the daemon does not need to contain a wallet, nor to have
 Lightning enabled; the watchtower is only about watching onchain
 addresses and broadcasting onchain transactions.
 
+
+If you run Electrum's Qt GUI on the machine that is configured as a
+watchtower, you can view the database size and number of transactions
+per channel if you open the watchtower window:
+
+.. image:: png/watchtower_window.png
+
+
 Configure the watchtower in your client
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