From my recollection, I know you can pay for a new channel with onchain (it’s fine print / text url as payment option when opening a channel)
Not sure if you can do it directly or only as part of funding a channel
Does anyone know how to move on-chain balance funds in nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm hub over into your spending balance? I’ve got a channel already, but the guides on the support page have one key video showing as “no longer available” that I think has the answer. All I wanted to do was move some on chain corn from cold storage to my Alby Lightning wallet. I ended up having to send the on chain bitcoin on my hub to another wallet I have that can handle both on chain and Lightning, then send it via Lightning to my Alby wallet. It was a pain in the rear. Any advice would be appreciated. I can’t find anything in Alby’s documentation. Thanks !
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It looks like all I can do is fund a new channel with onchain balance. The support page keeps just suggesting I have to use a swap service like Boltz or SimpleSwap
LND does not conform to spec. Everybody should stop using it.
Hey, there are two ways to 'convert' your onchain sats to lightning sats:
either 'directly' you open a channel with these funds, or 'indirectly' (but maybe more convenient and often cheaper) - using swap service, ie. exchanging these sats with someone else.
With new release of Alby Hub, v.1.14 coming this week, we will integrate swaps within our interface, so you don't have to go to Boltz etc. 😉