@Alby can you explain why I cannot use my credits to fund my first lightning channel?

Is there a way to do this? I just keep getting an error when trying to send the sats to pay the invoice to open my channel.

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And just to be clear I've already clicked on 'help' in the Alby Hub which is giving me 'Invalid Invite' discord error. So yeah. nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k7tcgt8699

Inside Alby Hub if you click on "Help" you'll get to https://getalby.com/help don't you?

Please contact us via the chat widget on getalby.com/help. Happy to help.

you can. that’s what they are for. if you have credits and open the first channel from the hub those are used

Hmmmm something weird is going on then. When I try to pay the open channel invoice from the wallet with the sats I get an error in the browser extension.

that’s not how you do it. it would also not know it’s for a channel.

when you start the hub and have your alby account setup you automatically get into the flow to get the first channel.

you’ll not even see the invoice.

it needs ~20k

On chain first only? When I click open channel it simply asks me to pay 13k sats. I have 13k sats in my Alby account. 🤷

I think you’re in the wrong screen and doing something strange.

in the onboarding checklist there is the first point