I love to hear that many people are excited about Alby Hub and how they got their lightning node running and how cool it is to use it to zap and do all the crazy things we now do with sats!

But I also need to say: it's still a very long way to go and what will matter is how it performs long term. It needs to get battle tested 😉

Can't wait to look back in 6 or 12 months...

We work super hard that you will then be even more excited using the Alby Hub! But only time will tell 😉

actually that's bad english, isn't it? 🙈

it should be "I'll randomly select a person who comments on this."

ok, that was quick. but because the first reply is a bit unfair I will get another iOS Testflight invite for Alby Go and will invite a random person who comments on this.

Alby Go is a super simple mobile app to send and receive lightning payments on the Go. It's build around NWC and perfectly works with your Alby Hub.

You will need an active Alby Hub and you will need to give us feedback!

An active Alby Hub is required.

And I heard rumors that Alby Cloud subscribers will be invited, soon.

I think I have one iOS Testflight invite for Alby Go.

Alby's super simple mobile app to send and receive lightning payments on the Go.

It's build around NWC and perfectly works with your Alby Hub.

Who wants it? First reply gets it but you must promise to give feedback. 😉

ok, cool. looking forward to the update (I bet it will look different :D )

take 5 minutes and do it. 😉

did you try Alby Hub, yet?

if not can you do it and then update this picture after a few weeks?

Yeah, data is encrypted with the password and thus it needs to be unlocked. There have been talks on lifting this but I am not sure when it happens.

I think there is an issue for it in case somebody wants to contribute to it. :)

👀 nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8

https://m.primal.net/KaVE.mp4

yep, do that. setup Golang and nodejs - that should be just default there.

and then I can help you building the hub executable.

it should be easy. I think you only need Golang and Node.js installed. I can help with that, but I don't have a fedora at hand

I thought you have built it from source. do you think you're able to do this? It requires to have Go installed.

what does it say if you run it?

With Alby Hub you always have your own channels, but Alby Hub makes it easy. It has integrated LSPs to buy channels and we want to give users a setup with good defaults and where channels have to be setup once and then work as long as possible.

It dos not? lets make it work. I don't have much experience with Fedora, but I am pretty sure we should get it running there.

btw. you can see this probably easier in the extension web developer debug tool. I assume it's the fiat rates which you can configure in the settings.

in such cases we actually also default that requests go to one of our servers instead of some external servers.

You likely use the Alby fiat rates. Can you go to settings and disable fiat rates or use a different rate provider.

In the rates we specifically use the Alby one to not make users request other sources without knowing it.

and thanks for investigating this, this for sure is helpful for us to improve this and I am sure we can get better there.

User privacy is very important to us, though we our main focus is at this point simplicity.

the extension talks directly to the lnbits - if that is used in the extension. that does not go through any of the Alby servers.

whoa! nice! 😍