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Introducing Alby Wallet Webhooks for Developers

Today we are happy to announce the addition of Webhooks to our Alby Wallet API. Webhooks allow services to be instantly notified of user's incoming and outgoing payments and act upon them. Without Webhooks, a service has to continuously poll an account for new invoices and keep track of unprocessed

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Alby Partnership Announcement: Accelerating Podcasting 2.0 with Castamatic

Alby is pleased to announce a new partnership with Castamatic; a podcast player much loved for the "On the Go" playlist feature. The app is available across all iOS platforms. Castamatic is jumping on the bandwagon to support the Value 4 Value (V4V) movement by enabling bitcoin payment streaming via

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#1tapzaps in Damus with Alby

Enjoy frictionless payments Compared to their web counterparts, mobile apps, which do not provide a wallet natively lack a seamless payment experience. Web apps like Primal, Iris or Snort, implement WebLN, a standard that enables programmatic payments between users. The Alby browser extension is your companion to send and receive

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ZapPlanner - periodic payments in bitcoin

In short: * Schedule Value 4 Value payments to a lightning address to support your favorite content creator * Allow ZapPlanner to send payments on your behalf, that you have control to cancel whenever you wish * ZapPlanner is just one example of the possibilities that NWC enables Bitcoin is not made for

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Nostr Wallet Connect Comes to Umbrel

Written by Pedrodelacadena Our new addition to the Nostr ecosystem, Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is aiming at being the unifying standard for wallet-app connections. Built on the Nostr protocol and leveraging bitcoin’s lightning network, it will aid developers in their coding and integrations, and allow users to send and

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Alby Buzz: Nostr Wallet Connect

Hello Alby Community! Welcome to the 15th edition of Alby Buzz, where you find out about everything new at Alby, the lightning app ecosystem, and are the first to learn about what's coming next. News from the bitcoin lightning app ecosystem * Strom is an open source application that allows charge

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Introducing Nostr Wallet Connect

In short: * Nostr Wallet Connect allows users to import their existing bitcoin lightning wallets into apps * Developers can offer one-click or even automated bitcoin payments with just a few lines of code. Connecting wallets and apps is cumbersome Nowadays, integrating bitcoin lightning wallets with apps is tedious work for developers,

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Value4Value payments for creators and RSS feed reader apps

The building blocks are in place to facilitate meaningful connections and direct payments between creators and consumers. RSS - a smart way to distribute content With so much new content on the web added daily, it can be tough to keep up with what’s happening online. To stay informed

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Lighting Bridge implements WebLN

Summary * Lighting Bridge allows swapping altcoins to bitcoin using the Alby Browser Extension. * Lighting Bridge's implementation of WebLN eases the process for users considerably. The need for a better onramp to bitcoin The user experience of onboarding onto bitcoin can be improved. Currently, the process may involve multiple steps, including

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Native Zapping in Amethyst

The need for a Nostr-native payment interface for mobile apps Compared to their web counterparts, mobile Nostr apps, which do not provide a wallet natively lack a seamless payment experience. Web apps like Iris, Snort, or Astral implement WebLN, a standard that allows programmatic payments between users. Together with the

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Alby Buzz: Nostr Hackathon & Alby LNDhub

Hello Alby Community! Welcome to the 14th edition of Alby Buzz, where you find out about everything new at Alby, the lightning app ecosystem, and are the first to learn about what's coming next. News from the bitcoin lightning app ecosystem * BoltCard Wallet launched a new LNDhub-based wallet * The Bitfinex

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Paid audio content without barriers

Summary * One-time payments for "Pay-per-listen" experiences in podcasting have not been feasible across podcast apps until today * Based on the Open Content Payment Spec podcasters are able to distribute paid content with public podcast feeds making it visible and easily accessible to any user of any podcast app. The current

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BlueWallet & Alby - how to switch LNDhub

BlueWallet is terminating its LNDhub service within its mobile app. However, many users connected their BlueWallet LNDhub account to the Alby browser extension. This blog post helps you to find a new home for your bitcoins on the lightning network. Check if you are using BlueWallet's LNDhub in the Alby

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Alby Buzz: Lightning benchmark and new tools for app developers

Hello Alby Community! Welcome to the 13th edition of Alby Buzz, where you find out about everything new at Alby, the lightning app ecosystem, and are the first to learn about what's coming next. News from the bitcoin lightning app ecosystem * Core Lightning opened up a new community. Check it

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Getting Started with Value4Value using Anchor and Alby

About this Guide We’ll get you started with Value 4 Value using Anchor, Alby, Podcasterwallet and Podcast Index - from creating your podcast and recording your first episode to receiving payments made by your listeners and live analytics in as little as an hour, and completely for free. If

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Stack sats as a lightning node operator

LNnodeinsight released Sats4stats allowing lighting node operators to exchange node data for sats facilitated by the open WebLN standard. Lightning network nodes may collect certain information as part of the routing process. This can include transaction data, such as the source and destination addresses of payments, as well as network

Lightning benchmark

Recently, the podcasting 2.0 movement is taking off in a big way. V4V payment "streaming" through keysend probably accounts for a big chunk of all Lightning transactions today, and soon it will probably by far be the majority of LN volume. In his 2021 blog post, Joost Jager of

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Lightning Node Connect in the Alby Browser Extension

With Lightning Node Connect, a new connector is available in the Alby browser extension. Users of LND nodes can use LNC to connect their LND nodes to Alby to access lightning apps in a non-custodial way. Without any additional implementation, lightning app developers can leverage this option by interacting with

The 2-minute Alby guide to Nostr

Things are happening fast in Nostr land. Really fast! So I spare you some random introduction and explanation. There are more and more great resources to learn out there! Have a look at our intro. And did you know there is already a first conference coming up?! So here is

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Alby Buzz: Getting started with Nostr and new podcast partnership

Hello Alby Community! Welcome to the 12th edition of Alby Buzz, where you find out about everything new at Alby, the lightning app ecosystem, and are the first to learn about what's coming next. NEW: Includes news from the Nostr app ecosystem News from the bitcoin lightning app ecosystem * Stacker

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Alby Partnership Announcement: Accelerating Podcasting 2.0 with Blubrry

Alby is pleased to announce a new partnership with Blubrry; a leading podcasting platform for hosting, distribution, audience statistics, monetization and other tools podcasters need to publish, analyze and grow their podcasts. Alby is helping to bring Blubrry into the world of Value 4 Value (V4V)  by enabling bitcoin payment

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How to use Nostr with the Alby Extension

Summary * Nostr is an open protocol to create more censorship-resistant social networks. * Users identify themselves on Nostr apps with their Nostr private and public key. * The Alby Extension helps you to conveniently manage your private key and to interact with other users across the network instead of handing it over

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Alby Buzz: new JavaScript API for lightning web apps and Nostr integration

Hello Alby Community! Welcome to the 11th edition of Alby Buzz, where you find out about everything new at Alby, the lightning app ecosystem, and are the first to learn about what's coming next. News from the bitcoin lightning app ecosystem * LQwD introduced V2 of its platform with many features

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New JavaScript API for lightning web applications

Beyond offering powerful tools for instant, effortless compensation, Alby presents exciting opportunities for those developing lightning web apps. 💥 TL;DR * Easy access to all lightning node APIs via a JavaScript interface (node info, channel infos, balances, fee reports, etc.) for web apps * It's now possible to build the next node

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Announcement: Direct Alby account top-up with MoonPay

At Alby, we are proud to be strong advocates for open, collaborative, and innovative initiatives on bitcoin and the bitcoin lightning network. It is from this motivation that we are happy to announce our partnership with MoonPay, a top-notch exchange service provider. Until now, there has never been an easier