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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 26 Sep \ parent \ on: Getting Started with Alby Hub bitcoin_beginners

We are talking about experienced node operators or limited end users? NWC connections are really cool in this case and Alby is offering a simple UI for those backends.

Not everybody should run Alby Hub and not everybody should run phoenixd or LND... I think Alby Hub is just offering all flavors for all tastes.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 26 Sep

NWC connections

I guess it would be worth setting up Alby Hub if that's the best way to configure Nostr Wallet Connect. Do all of the back-end nodes support NWC?

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 26 Sep

I don't think is about support for NWC by the backends. NWC is something built on top of any node and do not require any specific code for the LN implementation in order to be supported. Is more about the easy way for a newbie to get a working NWC wallet for his nostr zaps and many other LN apps out there.

Alby wanted to get rid of the custodial accounts used by all these noobs and I think that this Alby Hub come to help them all to get rid of custodial accounts, but also offering more expanded options with different backends.

They could easily just integrated LDK or even Greenlight and the user not even had to do all the setups. Will be just click-and-play and that's it.

But instead of that, they choose to offer more options and that is excellent choice IMHO.

110 sats \ 1 reply \ @rolznz 27 Sep

NWC is actually a big part of Alby Hub, not just for the self-custodial aspect but the idea of seamlessly connecting your node to all your apps you use. "Bring your own wallet" to many apps, similar to the "Bring your own client" idea we see in Nostr and Podcasting.

We are seeing a trend over time that more and more apps are integrating lightning, and rather than having separate inbuilt wallets per app, we see the ability for apps to seamlessly connect to your wallet as a superpower.

Soon Alby Hub will show more stats about usage across apps - for example in the transaction list you can already see what apps make what payments. Alby Hub will really show what is possible with open source programmable money.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @a40ecaacec 30 Sep

Using nostr as a 3rd layer is not just for connecting apps, just check on lightning.pub, they implemented a bolt12 like feature without using the native bolt12 implementation but using nostr relays to act as a middleman to deal with it, very interesting combination of technologies.