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🐝 Alby Hub, Browser Extension and Account
🐝 Alby Hub, Browser Extension and Account
  • 🏠 Hub, Browser Extension, Account
  • Alby Go
    • 📲Get Alby mobile app
    • 👩‍🚀Send, Receive, Go!
  • Alby Hub
    • â„šī¸Introduction
    • đŸšĸGetting Started
    • 🍕Alby Hub flavors
      • Alby Pro Cloud
      • Other Cloud Options
      • Desktop
      • Docker
      • Umbrel, Start9, etc
      • 🐧Linux
      • 🆙Updating
    • 👛Wallet
      • đŸ’ĢOpen your first channel
      • 📤Send
      • đŸ“ĨReceive
      • âŦ†ī¸Buy Bitcoin
        • 💰Withdraw from an exchange
      • âŦ‡ī¸Sell Bitcoin
    • 🔗App Connections
    • 🎮App Store
      • 🏡Sub-wallet, Friends & Family
        • Fast sub-wallets (no lightning address)
        • Sub-wallet with lightning address âšĄī¸
        • Podcaster & musicians sub-wallets
        • ❓Q&A of sub-wallets
      • 📅ZapPlanner
    • 🚰Node
      • đŸ“ĨIncrease receiving capacity
      • 📤Advanced: Increase Spending Balance with on-chain bitcoin
      • â¤ī¸Node Health
      • 💰On-chain Balance
      • Swap In & Out
    • 🔐Backups & Recover
    • ❓FAQ Alby Hub
      • How can I access Alby Hub from my phone?
      • Why do I need to link my Alby Account?
      • Should I open a private or public channel?
      • How can I change routing fees?
      • How can I close a channel? What happens to the sats in this channel?
      • Why was my lightning channel closed and what to do next?
      • How can I update my Alby Hub?
      • How can I change my unlock password?
      • How can I check budgets of connected apps?
      • How can I backup my keys
      • Where is Alby Hub physically located?
      • How can I migrate Alby Hub to a different machine?
      • How to use Fly.io to run Alby Hub
      • What to do during times of high onchain fees?
      • What to do if I cannot send a payment?
      • What to do if I cannot receive a payment
      • Should I open multiple channels with the same counterparty?
      • What happens if the healthcheck indicator turns red?
    • 📚Bitcoin Wallet Glossary
  • Alby Browser Extension
    • 👾Features
      • đŸ’ŗManage multiple wallets
      • đŸ’ĩCreate and change budgets
      • 🔂Send and receive bitcoin
      • đŸĨManage site connections
      • đŸ—ī¸Master Key
      • đŸĻ¤Nostr
      • 🌊Liquid
      • âš–ī¸HOLD Payments
    • 🔗Link wallet
      • Alby web Account
      • Umbrel
      • Alby Hub via NWC link
      • LND
      • No limits - quick & easy
    • 🎮Discover apps
    • 🐞Debugging
      • Connecting your LN node
      • Google Chrome
      • Mozilla Firefox
      • Using nightly builds
    • ❓FAQs Alby Extension
      • How do I install the Alby Browser Extension?
      • Why do I need a unlock password?
      • Can I trust the software?
      • Lost Password
      • Does the extension work on Mobile?
      • Implementing payments and authentication
      • Can I use Alby with the Tor Browser?
      • What is the Alby Companion App?
      • How to enable Alby only on specific websites?
      • Can I connect LND with readonly permissions?
      • How to use Alby with nosft.xyz to get NFT ordinals/inscriptions?
      • How to access my old account in apps with the Alby Extension
      • What permission does the extension require?
      • How can I run my own Lightning node?
      • Migrate from old LNDHub setup
      • I lost my Nostr ID when making a new account
  • Alby Account
    • â„šī¸Introduction
    • 🔗Link wallet
      • 🔗Link Alby Hub
      • 🔗Link other NWC wallet
    • 🌮Features
      • Nostr identifier
      • Lightning Address
      • Notifications and reports
      • Email, Password, Currency
      • âŦ†ī¸Top up your wallet
        • Card or bank transfer
        • Exchange service
        • Other bitcoin wallet
        • Other crypto wallet
      • âŦ‡ī¸Convert to fiat
    • 🎮Connect to apps
      • NWC Connections
      • Alby Browser Extension
      • BTCPay Server
      • Podcast apps
      • Alby Go mobile app
    • 👩‍đŸ’ģUse your lightning address
      • Nostr
      • Own domain
    • ❓FAQs Alby Account
      • Alby Hub is here! What happens to my existing balance?
      • Are there transaction limits with my Alby Account?
      • Can I open a channel to Alby's lightning node?
      • How to increase your weekly payment volume?
      • Why is there a minimum balance required?
      • Which service fees apply for using an Alby account?
      • How does Alby make money?
      • How to use Fly.io to run Alby Hub
      • What are fee credits in my Alby account
      • Embrace Alby Hub - phasing out Alby’s shared wallet
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  3. Top up your wallet

Other bitcoin wallet

You can send satoshis from another bitcoin wallet to top up the balance of your Alby Account.

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Bitcoin Lightning Network wallets

The bitcoin lightning network is great. It allows you to send bitcoin from any lightning wallet app to your Alby wallet... and vice versa! You will find a selection of mobile lightning wallets .

There are two ways to receive bitcoin in your Alby wallet:

  1. Enter your lightning address [yourname]@getalby.com into the other app. (You can customize your personal address! Go to: Lightning Address)

  2. Create and enter a lightning invoice into the other app. Learn how to create an invoice.

Bitcoin (Onchain) Wallets

The lightning network is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network which allows users to transfer bitcoin off-chain instantaneously with very low transaction fees. The lightning network is built on top of the bitcoin network, and is thus called a layer two solution.

The process of bringing bitcoin on-chain to the lightning network is called 'swap'. To see how to deposit bitcoin from regular on-chain wallet to your Alby lightning wallet, watch this video guide:

To top up your Alby Account from a bitcoin onchain wallet, you can use one of these services:

( for swapping from Liquid to your Alby account)

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Boltz Exchange
Guide
SimpleSwap
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