Subnostr

Hello sir,

If you have seen our recent update - we have limited creation of new Alby Accounts, exactly to have sats's safety in mind and encourage users for self-custody.

Alby Account is a great starter to lightning, but we build open-source tools (and recent update makes us focus on that more) that enable self-sovereignty and decentralization to highest extent.

Please let us know what in your opinion goes against Bitcoin ethos in things we do?

Take care!

Uxellodunum 2y ago

Thanks for your response.

Let's see..

"we have limited creation of new Alby Accounts" - So much for Bitcoin's mission on inclusion..

"Introducing invite codes for signups helps us to **selectively** onboard new users." - Almost seems like censorship..

I'm not stating you've added no value to the eco-system(s), you absolutely have and I personally recognise that, but the way it's been done with such focus on custodianship, is alarming at best, a bad omen at worst.

Frame it as an "update", but you took a step back in the service you provide by limiting WHO can use said service, a service whose infrastructure was already faulty relying on this amount of centralisation.

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Alby 2y ago

Sir, are you trying to understand our mission and almost necessary move or trying to find what at Alby 'seems like censorship'?

We are all for inclusion, but we don't want to run a node for you. We want our users to run it for themselves, while learning what is bitcoin on lightning and how to use it. Thus open-source extension, thus our development of NWC, thus our encouragement, education, workshops, hackathons.

And the recent update was exactly to focus on non-custodianship.

Uxellodunum 2y ago

And that's great, but how does limiting user signups encourage self-hosting AND the usage of Alby services?

If people can't sign-up, they'll either look for another LSP, or run a node themselves - Great. But how does that benefit Alby?

I guess my question is, can NWC (the only self-hostable Alby service) be utilised without an Alby account?