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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 here 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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