ℹ️Introduction

About Alby Accounts

Alby is your companion for bitcoin payments in the digital world of apps and the real world of brick-and-mortar businesses.

As such Alby is offering products and services to make use of programmable money and instant low-cost payments.

That's why Alby created a managed lightning wallet service. This service is no longer offered and only maintained to serve existing users. But no worries instead of just using one wallet provider with an Alby Account we leave the choice to you. Feel free to link and supercharge your own wallet such as Alby Hub with all the features Alby is offering you.

Why should I create an Alby Account?

As a consumer 🙋‍♀️:

• Use the Alby Browser Extension

• Connect mobile apps (Zeus, BlueWallet, etc.)

• Get an individual lightning address

• Receive payment notifications

As a creator 👩‍🎨:

• Connect to podcasting 2.0 apps

• Use your lightning address on Twitter, YouTube and Nostr

• Get your personal tipping page

As a merchant 🛒:

• Connect to BTCPay Server to accept bitcoin payments

• Get a lightning address with your own internet domain

• Export your transaction history for your bookkeeping purposes

As a developer 👨‍💻:

• Access a dedicated developer portal

• Programmatically interact with your wallet and implement custom logic in response to events

• Let Alby's SDKs abstract away the complexities of the lightning network

How do you get all these features?

1. Create an Alby Account

Visit getalby.com and click on "Dashboard"

2 Link your wallet

🔗Link wallet

That's how you supercharge your bitcoin lightning wallet. 🚀