Before Alby was available only through an invitation code, Alby hosted lightning nodes for free to all users. Alby's payment experience was very stable and smooth. I'm curious about how much work and expenses it takes for Alby to maintain a large number of users in the lightning node operation and personnel? #[0] 🫂🫡
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our focus is on Alby Hub and creating a smooth, self-sovereign wallet built on NWC to be used with all the apps that integrate open source money.
I believe the tech and time is slowly ready for this.
but building on lightning is still a pain, and getting it reliable with all the moving parts is still close to impossible.
we’ll get there, luckily we’re all excited early adopters here, aren’t we?
What are other layer 2's besides lightning and why aren't they catching on?
I don't have enough knowledge, but they are still early and adoption by the ecosystem (and finding good use cases) is essential.
There’s nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n liquid, which is really a side chain.
It’s privacy focused and has Tether built into its 1 minute blocks.
it's not really competition for lightning but could probably take over the bulk clearinghouse elements of lightning and enable further savings on block space usage... it's more like SWIFT versus Visa ark as to lightning
Most promising now is Ark, it should launch maybe by the end of this year
YES, Lightning has allowed us to experience the beauty of Bitcoin payments. Let’s move on.
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