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Introducing Pro Plan - More Features and Convenience

Introducing Pro Plan - More Features and Convenience

Today, we’re launching Pro, a paid subscription plan that unlocks the best of Alby’s services for your Alby Hub. As the bitcoin payment ecosystem continues to grow, there are more opportunities than ever to send, spend, receive, and earn bitcoin. That’s why it’s becoming increasingly valuable

New NWC One-Click Wallet Connections simplify app UX

New NWC One-Click Wallet Connections simplify app UX

Connect any bitcoin lightning wallet seamlessly with one click to other apps for convenient in-app payments. Link your own wallet to apps with NWC For technology to gain meaningful adoption, it must be effortless—and bitcoin is no exception. While wallets for bitcoin lightning payments have significantly improved the onboarding

Alby Hub available on RaspiBlitz

Alby Hub available on RaspiBlitz

Install Alby Hub on RaspiBlitz to get a lightning address, Alby Go mobile app and easier channel management for your own node. Alby Hub - your Center for Bitcoin Payments Alby Hub is a self-custodial lightning wallet that lets users choose their preferred Lightning funding source. It includes an easy-to-use

Pricing: How we approach user feedback and improve

Pricing: How we approach user feedback and improve

Our products have evolved, and so has our business model. Yet one thing has remained constant: our commitment to creating the best tools for individuals and developers to send and receive bitcoin payments online. We are driven by a vision of a future where bitcoin is widely adopted as a

Automated Spending Balance Backups for Alby Hub

Automated Spending Balance Backups for Alby Hub

Backups in self-custodial lightning wallets today Lightning wallets have always posed a unique challenge for self-custodial users: backups. Unlike traditional bitcoin wallets, where you jot down a recovery phrase once and relax, lightning wallets require a more dynamic approach. Each transaction alters the state of your payment channels, and an

Alby Hub brings self-custodial bitcoin payments to CasaOS

Alby Hub brings self-custodial bitcoin payments to CasaOS

Alby Hub, your self-custodial bitcoin wallet with the easiest to use lightning node is available on the popular personal cloud system from CasaOS. Alby Hub - your personal bitcoin payment OS Alby Hub is a powerful self-custodial lightning wallet with the easiest to use lightning network node that lets you

Alby Hub available on StartOS and Umbrel

Alby Hub available on StartOS and Umbrel

StartOS- and Umbrel platforms designed for self-hosting personal servers and running various services in a user-friendly manner, have added Alby Hub to their official app stores 🥳 Install Alby Hub on top of existing nodes on both Umbrel and Start9 and benefit from a lightning address, easier node management and Alby

Alby Go - The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go!

Alby Go - The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go!

Alby announces the release of Alby Go, a mobile application designed for the easiest bitcoin payments on the go. Available for iOS and Android, this open-source app enables users to send and receive bitcoin instantly over the Lightning Network on their mobile devices, directly from their own nodes.

Introducing Alby Hub’s Superpower: App Connections

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,

Welcome Alby Hub ✨Lightning sovereignty for everyone

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

Connect your StartOS node to any app with NWC

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

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

Contribute to Bitcoin Open-Source Projects this Hacktoberfest

Contribute to Bitcoin Open-Source Projects this Hacktoberfest

tl;dr: 🛠️ Bitcoin X Hacktoberfest = #bitcoinhacktoberfest! 🎉 The article below is... an invitation. Invitation to join Hacktoberfest 2023! An annual global event in October that celebrates and promotes open-source contributions. 🚀 As a mission-driven open-source bitcoin startup, Alby encourages developers to collaboratively shape the future of important technologies. 🛠️ How to Participate: Start

Celebrating 1,000,000 monthly bitcoin payments

Celebrating 1,000,000 monthly bitcoin payments

Alby is your companion for bitcoin payments and seamless access to the world of bitcoin apps, merchants and Nostr. Thanks to our community, we have reached another great milestone. In August, Alby facilitated over 1,000,000 bitcoin transactions over the lightning network. This growth is owed to consumers trusting

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 Time Split - the latest innovation in Podcasting 2.0

Value Time Split - the latest innovation in Podcasting 2.0

* Value 4 Value is a new form of monetization and a way for publishers to earn back the value they provide to their followership. * The value time split is the latest innovation in Podcasting 2.0 allowing alternating payment recipients and cross referencing of content. * This advancement sets the foundation

Apple’s threat to delist Damus impacts the greater Value for Value community

Apple’s threat to delist Damus impacts the greater Value for Value community

* Apple does not accept Damus’ peer-to-peer payments feature as it does not use Apple’s in-app purchase system. * This has implications for the broader Value for Value community. * But Apple's guidelines officially allow exceptions that can be applied for Value for Value payments in apps. Apple warns Damus

Paid audio content without barriers

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.

New JavaScript API for lightning web applications

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

Connect your Core Lightning Node to Alby

Connect your Core Lightning Node to Alby

Alby has taken another step in becoming the app for the whole bitcoin community for everyday use on the web. By integrating other powerful tools on the lightning network, Alby continues to become even more functional. Now every Core Lightning user can easily connect its own node to Alby. Core

Nostr in the Alby Extension

Nostr in the Alby Extension

Social media platforms offer users the ability to engage with people and topics they care about. However, many users are frustrated by the centralized nature of these networks. In this article, we are proud to announce the integration of Nostr into the Alby browser extension. Nostr is a protocol premised

Introducing the Alby Wallet API - a new way to power any app with Bitcoin

Introducing the Alby Wallet API - a new way to power any app with Bitcoin

The API enables marketplaces, merchants, businesses, developers, and more, to offer instant, inexpensive, global payments to anyone, at any time.

Introducing Bitcoin Payments for Podcasters with Alby

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.

Alby in the Media

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.