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Real-time payment streaming with Alby Wallet APIs

Real-time payment streaming with Alby Wallet APIs

Discover how Alby's Wallet APIs enable real-time audience-to-artist payments at music events, revolutionizing live performance monetization. Phantom Power Music’s Mission and Objective Phantom Power Music is a "Value 4 Value" artist focused music company that embraces a unique monetization model and philosophy. This approach enables

Introducing Alby Wallet API Community SDKs

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

Block Ads and Pay in Bitcoin today

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

Stacker News adds Self-custodial Spending with 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

Flash - A Payment Gateway built on NWC

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

An open payment API for podcast apps

An open payment API for podcast apps

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 receive updates from website feeds in an RSS reader. Podcasting is a famous example of RSS-based content distribution

Bitcoin Connect - connect bitcoin wallets with apps

Bitcoin Connect - connect bitcoin wallets with apps

Bitcoin Connect allows you to seamlessly connect your bitcoin lightning wallet with any web application. Interactions like payments can happen natively in web apps and PWAs. Bitcoin Connect takes a big leap for non-custodial spending and bitcoin app development. Solving shortcomings of using bitcoin apps step by step Previously the

Introducing the Alby Developer Portal

Introducing the Alby Developer Portal

Hey builder community! We're here to talk about something fresh we've shipped. Since the introdution of the Alby Wallet API, the Alby team has continually invested in the API and developer experience to make building with bitcoin feel effortless. By focusing on clean documentation, libraries and

Value 4 Value on PeerTube – an open-source video streaming platform

Value 4 Value on PeerTube – an open-source video streaming platform

TL;DR: * Use lightning on PeerTube, an open source video streaming platform * Don’s lightning plugin makes Value 4 Value easy for all PeerTube admins to use. * Alby users can easily login with Alby or donate with lightning on enabled channels What is PeerTube? An alternative to major big tech

No-Code + AI + Bitcoin: The Ultimate Trio for Future Workflows

No-Code + AI + Bitcoin: The Ultimate Trio for Future Workflows

Get an inside look at how L402 Bitcoin/Lightning payments can be processed through the n8n.io no-code workflow tool, using AI tools such as ChatGPT. TL;DR • No-code automation tools connect web services and cut repetitive tasks • Bitcoin/Lightning enables instant, global, and micro payments for automation services, especially

Builders use bitcoin to monetize AI

Builders use bitcoin to monetize AI

Ai4ALL, organized by Fedi and Stak, was the first electrifying hackathon set to revolutionize how we use Bitcoin to democratize AI access. Running remotely from July 1st - Aug 1st this event was hosted on the BOLT.FUN and Replit platforms. A mind blowing number of 173 makers participated in

Open-source money for open-source code

Open-source money for open-source code

Developers are able to receive funding for npm packages by adding a funding property to their code packages. In an attempt to support the open source community PkgZap allows developers to earn and contribute back by boosting all code dependencies at once thanks to bitcoin as programmable money. Funding open

Introducing Alby Wallet Webhooks for Developers

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