AFAIK, alby is ditching the custodial wallet, which is why they have set up hub. If you have connected your node (your wallet) to the hub, with NWC, then you're OK. Have you still got sats on the custodial alby account? If so, withdraw them to your node. Any zaps you receive you can see where they deposit. It should be your node
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I totally get that, it’s just now I seem to have two separate Alby identities and there seems no way to merge the two. It even appears I have a different Nostr account with the new Alby hub. When I use the browser extension there’s now two separate wallets.
You've linked your Nostr in the setting? Only once, I take it. I've not used my browser extension since installing hub, I don't use desktop a lot anyway. Reach out to the team
I might just accept the inpc@getalby.com is toast. Maybe I can resurrect it when they shut the custodial service down.
I think I can zap from my new hub…
I’ve no idea what’s going on but I think I just zapped you!
Alby Account (getalbycom) and Alby Extension both need to be connected to some lightning node. The default and soon only node will be users own Alby Hub, after we replace custodial shared node down.
You can connect Alby Account to some node (like Alby Hub), to use lightning address of that Account with your node. You can customize the node in "Wallet configuration" on getalby.com/node
For each Account, you can freely customize your lightning address in Settings.
Nostr identity is a separate story: you can use your Nostr keys in the extension (independent from your Account), and you can set up NIP-05 identifier to specific npub on your Account (getalbycom).
Then, the extension can independently have many wallets, each of them managing one nostr key and one lightning node interface / wallet.
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We know it's challenging, but freedom to link/unlink and customize comes with responsibility ;)
Happy to help further!
PS Feel free to come join our cal.com/getalby/alby-hub-onboarding to grasp it all quickly! :)