Most people, devs included, have yet to fully grasp the power of NWC. People think it is just "one-click-zaps", which is very powerful by itself but its real power is in the way to manage budgets and permissions such that every app that you or your dependents/employees operate becomes it's own bank account.

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Well put. Exactly this.

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Yes, we realized during implementation of NWC for nostr:npub1jluy3twvf338v6zlujzzdhjkzjy8ezj34ksydr8vw8a6jwp89ygshpp2kq that there are some tricky race conditions with payments and budgets considering that a Lightning payment can be "in-flight" for quite a long time... there is a potential attack on a NWC user where an attacker could exceed the user's budget if the attacker submits a lot of payment requests all at once and the user's NWC wallet service isn't properly tracking payments 'in-flight'!

A few days ago, my team needed a Lightning node. One of our developers suggested your site, so I signed up, and I have to say, setting up and managing a node was way easier than I expected. The built-in inbound features are especially useful, I really like them.

Looking forward to seeing what you guys do next. Good luck!

I've been travelling for last 4 months in bitcoin countries (El Salvador & Guatemala) and been using NWC tools for managing 100% of my finances.

It's usecases reach far beyound "just a pocket wallet to pay for coffee" or "zap people on social media"

What are some innovative ways to manage your finances with NWC?

Me and my 13.000 sats: What budget? :D

Absolutely! There will be 3-4 hackathons this year with NWC tracks. First one next month nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 in Floripa.

Hopefully we can continue the momentum and explore possibilities no one could think of before

I'm still waiting for lightning wallets like nostr:npub1pzerv8rqqvhk82y85axa3t3yxr8rdqnea03zlmk5crsne509esqqw0x463 to add a more robust subscription management interface for NWC connections so that I can properly utilize other apps on nostr.

Nothing too complex, just an interface where it tells me what I'm subscribed to, to which app or site, the limits I've put in it, if it's just a payment limit or a subscription, and if it is a subscription then what's the expected pay and at what date and time, the transaction history of each subscription, and so on.

Keep coming back for an ELI5 in comments but no 🎲

I look forward to seeing how things develop!

Indeed, we've only just begun tapping into the full power of NWC. I think it's one of the most useful protocols built on Nostr.

How do i connect a LN wallet via NWC??? Wasn’t able to figure it out, not very intuitive or self explaining… and if I can’t get it set up and working then 90% of the world won’t be able to at this stage.

So i am using a strike LN mail address instead…

Tried to connect Phoenix, Muun, Bluewallet, Breeze, WoS to my nostr account by entering pubkeys in the given areas but also then via NWC… quite frustrating tbh… must be much easier 😬

Any up to date source giving clear how-to-examples?

Any help/suggestion for me and others in the same situation?

Should have been called Nostr RPC

True. I hate RPCs.

There must be a way to use NWC without being reliant on Alby's relay/infrastructure, right? I self-host Alby Hub and a Haven relay and want to do this, but can't seem to find the resources to explain how.