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How to Use Your Alby Wallet to Receive Boostagrams

How to Use Your Alby Wallet to Receive Boostagrams

Alby recently introduced a new feature: "Bitcoin Payments for Podcasters". This feature allows users to receive payment streams (i.e. boosts) and boostagrams (i.e. a short text message attached to the boosts) from any bitcoin-enabled podcast player. Breez, CurioCaster, Fountain and Podverse are just some of them
Jul 18, 2022 — 2 min read
Use Alby to Send Bitcoin on Vimeo
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Use Alby to Send Bitcoin on Vimeo

Use the Alby browser extension to reward creators with bitcoin on Vimeo.
Jul 11, 2022 — 2 min read
How to Send Bitcoin on Medium Using Alby
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How to Send Bitcoin on Medium Using Alby

At Alby, we are providing easy-to-use tools to transact Bitcoin instantly. Alby creates a seamless user experience for bitcoin payments. In this article, we do a quick explainer of how you can send Bitcoin using Alby to a writer on Medium.
Jul 8, 2022 — 2 min read
Building a Content Distribution Proxy Implementing the LSATs spec
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Building a Content Distribution Proxy Implementing the LSATs spec

The main goal of the project is to build a solution that leverages the widely underused HTTP 402 (payment required) status code and LSAT — a protocol standard for authentication and paid APIs) to make microtransactions possible to get access to ad-free content or any paid APIs.
Jul 8, 2022 — 3 min read
Making Bitcoin Transactions Smart And Interactive With Structured Metadata
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Making Bitcoin Transactions Smart And Interactive With Structured Metadata

Bitcoin transactions hold only static data which doesn’t include much more relevant information to look into. what if transactions can have additional information (metadata).
Jul 8, 2022 — 5 min read
Use Alby to Send Bitcoin to BitcoinTV Creators
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Use Alby to Send Bitcoin to BitcoinTV Creators

Learn how you can use the Alby browser extension to send bitcoin on Bitcoin TV while watching its videos
Jul 4, 2022 — 2 min read
Monthly Alby Buzz: Value4Value Playlist and Get Your Own Podcaster Wallet
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Monthly Alby Buzz: Value4Value Playlist and Get Your Own Podcaster Wallet

In this edition, we cover the Alby Value 4 Value playlist, Alby enabling podcasters to receive bitcoins from listeners, New joiners at Alby and AMA with Alby on Stacker.News
Jul 1, 2022 — 2 min read
How to Send Bitcoin on Reddit Using Alby
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How to Send Bitcoin on Reddit Using Alby

At Alby, we are making payments smarter and simpler for everyone by providing easy-to-use tools to transact Bitcoin instantly and seamlessy. This article is a quick explainer of how you can send Bitcoin using Alby on Reddit.
Jun 28, 2022 — 2 min read
Introducing Bitcoin Payments for Podcasters with Alby
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Introducing Bitcoin Payments for Podcasters with Alby

Value 4 Value is a form of Podcasting 2.0 monetization. With Alby, podcasters can receive bitcoins from listeners directly. The wallet shows boostagrams and creds to prepare the RSS feed.
Jun 24, 2022 — 2 min read
Monthly Alby Buzz: WebLN.Guide and Alby's Deep Integration with Podcasting 2.0
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Monthly Alby Buzz: WebLN.Guide and Alby's Deep Integration with Podcasting 2.0

This is the fourth edition of the monthly Alby Buzz. In this edition, we cover: Alby in the wild, Publishing the WebLN.Guide, Alby's deeper integration with Podcasting 2.0 and release v1.10.0
Jun 1, 2022 — 2 min read
Send Bitcoin to Publishers on their Websites with Alby
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Send Bitcoin to Publishers on their Websites with Alby

At Alby, we’ve built a platform that enables applications to thrive while using the TCP/IP protocol technologies. So now, value can be communicated to a website from the consumer to the publisher, directly.
May 27, 2022 — 2 min read
Alby in the Media
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Alby in the Media

Since the time Alby hatched from its beehive, we have been invited by various publishers to share our thoughts on Value4Value in particular and Lightning Network in general. This is a list of all such appearances.
May 25, 2022 — 6 min read
How to Send Bitcoin on GitHub Using Alby
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How to Send Bitcoin on GitHub Using Alby

Alby is a browser extension that provides deep Lightning Network integration for websites for payments and authentication flows. And now you can send Bitcoin to your favourite contributor on GitHub.
May 20, 2022 — 2 min read
Connect Alby to Spend Your Funds
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Connect Alby to Spend Your Funds

You’ve downloaded the Alby browser extension. And you've created a Lightning Address for yourself. Congratulations, you are now ready to connect the two and begin spending funds
May 17, 2022 — 2 min read
Use Alby to Send Bitcoin to Your Favorite YouTube Creators
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Use Alby to Send Bitcoin to Your Favorite YouTube Creators

Watch video. Click on Alby. Put the amount. Confirm.
May 14, 2022 — 2 min read
Where to Use Your Alby Lightning Address
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Where to Use Your Alby Lightning Address

A Lightning Address is a massively simple way of sending Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. Like an email, you can send a transaction to a Lightning Address.
May 11, 2022 — 1 min read
Create Your Lightning Address
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Create Your Lightning Address

Use Alby to create a Lightning Address for yourself, a human-readable text that replaces the need for QR Codes
May 8, 2022 — 2 min read
Using Alby to Send Bitcoin on Twitter
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Using Alby to Send Bitcoin on Twitter

At Alby, we address the internet's broken monetization model by providing the most convenient tools to exchange bitcoin seamlessly and instantly. We believe every person has the right to participate fully in the global digital economy. And that is made possible by a model of value exchange most
May 4, 2022 — 2 min read
Monthly Alby Buzz: Alby's Win at the Bitcoin Conference and The Case for Value 4 Value
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Monthly Alby Buzz: Alby's Win at the Bitcoin Conference and The Case for Value 4 Value

Dear Alby Community, This is the third edition of the monthly Alby Buzz In this edition we cover: * Bitcoin Conference 2022, Miami * The Case for Value 4 Value * What’s new in Alby Bitcoin Conference 2022 The four-day event brought together developers, business leaders, policymakers, and builders of the Bitcoin
May 2, 2022 — 3 min read
The Case for Value 4 Value
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The Case for Value 4 Value

Enabling the age old voluntary value exchange model in the age of bitcoin
Apr 14, 2022 — 4 min read
Monthly Alby Buzz: More Releases and Shock the Web Hackathon
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Monthly Alby Buzz: More Releases and Shock the Web Hackathon

Dear Alby Community, This is the second edition of the monthly Alby Buzz In this edition we cover: * Shock the Web Hackathon * What’s new in Alby (please read carefully) * The Alby team is growing * Where to meet the Alby team Shock the Web Hackathon It was a blast! The
Apr 5, 2022 — 2 min read
Breaking Change in LNDhub/LNbits Message Signing
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Breaking Change in LNDhub/LNbits Message Signing

Summary Message signing with LNDhub and LNbits accounts through Alby has been changed. We standardized the way signing works with such wallets. With this Alby is now compatible with BlueWallet for logins. Unfortunately, this is a breaking change and if you rely on the old signing mechanism to login to
Apr 1, 2022 — 2 min read
Access Your Private Lightning Node From Anywhere
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Access Your Private Lightning Node From Anywhere

Today we are excited to announce the Alby App for users to easily (but securely!) pair Lightning nodes running behind Tor with the Alby browser extension. At Alby our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to access Bitcoin Lightning applications on the web. That’s
Mar 8, 2022 — 2 min read
Monthly Alby Buzz: LndHub.go & Lightning Hacksprint
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Monthly Alby Buzz: LndHub.go & Lightning Hacksprint

This is the first edition of the monthly Alby Buzz. In this episode we cover: the recently released LndHub.go news from the Lightning Hacksprint in Istanbul Summer of Bitcoin what’s new in Alby
Mar 2, 2022 — 2 min read
Announcing LndHub.go
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Announcing LndHub.go

A new accounting wrapper for the Lightning Network written in Go
Feb 21, 2022 — 2 min read