Product

Introducing Alby Hub’s Superpower: App Connections

Bitcoin payments today Bitcoin is the money for the internet*, and the lightning network is the superior payment protocol that allows for instant transfers from A to B across any borders. Today, you can easily pay bills, send money to family, shop online, top up your phone, and more. However,

Case Study

Nodana offers Alby Hub hosting services

Introduction Nodana is a professional hosting platform for specific bitcoin and lightning software that makes it quick and easy to start services in the cloud via the command line in minutes. With Nodana, you’re billed per minute and can pay in sats upfront for the exact usage you anticipate—

Product

Run Alby Hub on Servers, Desktops and Microcomputers

Run Alby Hub, your self-custodial lightning wallet and node, on simple servers, Windows, Mac and Linux desktop computers or $15 USD hardware. Current options of running a lightning node The bitcoin community is making big strides in providing products and services for running bitcoin lightning nodes across a wide range

Product

The 6 different Lightning backends for Alby Hub

Alby Hub runs on top of six different lightning backends, which currently are LDK, LND, Greenlight, Phoenixd, Breez SDK and Cashu mints. Alby Hub prioritizes Interoperability  This article is for the tech and lightning enthusiasts eager to explore the technical flexibility of Alby Hub. Interoperability is one of the core

Apps Featured

Welcome Alby Hub ✨Lightning sovereignty for everyone

Get Alby Hub: Your open-source, self-custodial Lightning wallet with integrated node. Run your own Bitcoin apps, manage channels easily, and take full control of your funds - all in one intuitive interface. Simple, sovereign, and accessible for everyone. #GetAlby

Discover Lightning Gaming with Alby

Lightning Network opens a new era of digital services. Bitcoin is not just about storing money - but using it. And using it is now possible in ways not even imagined before. Thanks to a growing ecosystem of creators, developers, designers, and users, now it is possible and useful to

Experience

Manage BTCPay Server with any Node or Wallet with NWC

BTCPay Server  Are you looking to accept bitcoin payments in your shop, bar or on your website? There is no way around trying out BTCPay Server as an open-source payment processor alternative for your bitcoin payments - especially if you want to take back control of accepting payments and self-host

NWC

Introducing Alby Wallet API Community SDKs

Adding native payment functionalities to apps for a global user base adds another level of complexity. The Alby Wallet API is a standardized integration for instantly moving money between any applications and their users. Implementing this one API means connecting to a global payment network that is accessible to any

Developer

Block Ads and Pay in Bitcoin today

Integrating bitcoin payments is hard easier than you think What if we told you that every web app could accept bitcoin payments with just two lines of JavaScript? It's almost unbelievable, especially when compared to the code required by traditional payment gateways, not to mention the managerial complexities

NWC

Stacker News adds Self-custodial Spending with NWC

It was in summer 2022, when Keyan, the founder of Stacker News and the Alby team talked about challenges of operating bitcoin apps and what we can do to help developers build more and better apps. That was the moment when Keyan mentioned that he would love to allow his

Vision

Use case specific Lightning Service Providers

Onboarding users on non-custodial wallets is tricky because of inbound liquidity requirements. A closer collaboration with use case specific apps can help Lightning Service providers to reduce capital cost and these apps to improve user experience.    The State of Lightning Service Providers Transacting on bitcoin’s lighting network requires a

Developer

Flash - A Payment Gateway built on NWC

Flash, a payment gateway application, provides easy to implement subscription payments or paywalls and earns its fair share without ever intermediating the payment between the publisher or online retailer and their consumers - a groundbreaking innovation built on NWC. The Problem With Today's Payment Gateways Payment gateways today

NWC

An open payment API for podcast apps

NWC allows podcast apps and their users to connect any wallet and receive payments instantly from their audience. RSS leverages an open payment network RSS is a standard, but more importantly it is an open standard, to distribute online content in a structured way allowing users to subscribe and automatically

Vision

Where Does Alby Fly From Here?

Bitcoin is the native currency of the Internet. Digital scarcity however comes with certain costs and tradeoffs that are a bit unintuitive and not immediately obvious. For example — If bitcoin is purely digital, why can't we use it on every corner of the Internet with ease? If it&

Podcasting

How to earn money from listeners as a podcaster with Podbean

Are you ready to turn your podcasting passion into a little profit… and to set up a modern tipping jar? We're excited to share that you can turn your podcasting passion into profit! With Podbean, you can actually receive direct payments from your devoted listeners. Podcasting 2.0

Nostr Signer — Nostrasia Hackathon Project

Nostr Signer is a native mobile app that allows you to remotely sign Nostr events via push notifications and store your private key in one place, rather than copying it into every individual mobile Nostr client that you use. It was created as a BOLT.FUN hackathon project for Nostrasia

NWC

Next Level Payment Integration with NWC

By building on NWC, Prism is leading the way of creating new payment-based non-custodial business models on top of this open protocol that haven’t been possible before.  Payment experience without limits NWC is a protocol that allows apps to integrate any bitcoin lightning wallet across devices and platforms. Firewalls,

Vision Featured

Scaling Bitcoin Apps with NWC

Nowadays, incorporating bitcoin lightning wallets in apps is tedious work for developers, especially due to the wide variety of interfaces that these wallets offer. Consequently developers can choose between two options: On the one hand, you build a whole wallet into the app from scratch which comes with a considerable

News

Connect your StartOS node to any app with NWC

Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is the unifying standard for wallet-app connections. Built on Nostr’s relay technology and leveraging bitcoin’s lightning network, it lets users connect their own lightning wallet to any app. Say Hi! 👋 to non-custodial spending from your own StartOS bitcoin lightning node.     Unlock StartOS with Alby

Experience

Lightning node setup made simple

You got a lightning node, but what’s next? Congrats! You decided to proactively take part in the next payment revolution and run your own bitcoin lightning node. You even bought hardware and installed RaspiBlitz, Start9 or Umbrel or you subscribed to a Voltage node in the cloud. While that’

Experience

Introducing Anser a Web Wallet for Liquid

💰BOUNTY WINNER! Congratulations to Riccardo, who in a very short time responded to our Bounty Call, and submitted his... Anser. Please find below a guestpost from this Alby user, open-source contributor, awarded 2,100,000 sat bounty for creating working Liquid web wallet 👇 Hello Alby community, as a follow up

Podcasting

Vodio - Podcasting 2.0 Monetization

Alby is pleased to announce a new integration with Vodio, a French podcasting platform for hosting, distribution, audience statistics, monetization and other tools podcasters need to publish, analyse and grow podcasts. Vodio together with Alby enable podcasters to receive payments directly from their listeners.  Vodio.fr lives Value 4 Value

Alby Buzz #22/#23 🎉 Happy New Year!

Hello, Alby Community! As we embark on 2024, we're thrilled to bring you this double edition of our newsletter, coming again with updates from Alby, the latest news in the bitcoin and Nostr app ecosystems, and exciting developments you won't want to miss!  What's

Podcasting

Direct podcast payments gain adoption - one year in review

2023 was an incredibly successful year for Podcasting 2.0. Adoption grew broadly across hosting services and podcast players. Dozens of apps are now supporting the value tag as one of the most transformative features allowing listeners to support podcasters and podcast hosts to generate income. We have depicted some

Introducing Liquid Network to the Alby Browser Extension

The recent surge in onchain bitcoin transaction fees, partly fueled by the controversial inscriptions, is sparking conversations about bitcoin second layers and sidechains. High fees drive more adoption into the lightning network, but there's also a growing interest in utilizing other available protocols. And Alby is here today