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Alby Hackdays - Sparky Hub, Auto-Swaps & more

Alby Hackdays - Sparky Hub, Auto-Swaps & more

Over the last two days, we’ve been hacking away on three exciting projects: Sparky Hub, a Spark-based and NWC-enabled payment wallet, Auto-swaps for conveniently transferring funds between your lightning and on-chain balances in Alby Hub and a simple Value-for-Value RSS feed reader. Alby Hackdays Crafting an awesome product means

Experiment with us - visit Alby Labs👨‍🔬⚗️🔬

Experiment with us - visit Alby Labs👨‍🔬⚗️🔬

Explore the innovative tools from Alby Labs designed to enhance your experience with the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Various unique tools that are results of our experiments with micropayments.

Nostr Wallet Connect Shines at bitcoin++ Hackathon

Nostr Wallet Connect Shines at bitcoin++ Hackathon

The first-ever Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) hackathon track at bitcoin++ in Florianópolis just wrapped up—and it was a huge success! Alby was a proud sponsor of this event. Out of 26 participating projects, nine integrated NWC into their solutions, highlighting just how useful and flexible the protocol can be.

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.

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

ZapPlanner - periodic payments in bitcoin

ZapPlanner - periodic payments in bitcoin

In short: * Schedule Value 4 Value payments to a lightning address to support your favorite content creator * Allow ZapPlanner to send payments on your behalf, that you have control to cancel whenever you wish * ZapPlanner is just one example of the possibilities that NWC enables Bitcoin is not made for