News #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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News Featured 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.
Value4Value 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.
News 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.
Newsletter 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
Newsletter 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
News 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
News 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
Newsletter 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
News Alby is open for Buzzness Bitcoin holds the promise of being the native currency of the internet. With Alby we want to contribute to this becoming a reality. Alby’s mission is to provide the most convenient to use building blocks for Bitcoin, the money of the Internet, to transact directly, instantly and seamlessly online.