🚢Getting Started

Welcome to Alby Hub, your next step towards taking full control of your Bitcoin and payment processes!

1. Get your Alby web Account 2. Launching Alby Hub 3. Deposit onchain funds or buy bitcoin 4. Top up your Spending Balance 5. Increase your Receiving Capacity

Get an Alby Account🐝 for launching your Alby Hub 🚀

Alby Hub is a wallet equipped with its own lightning node, ready to connect you to numerous applications.

The Alby Account 🐝 is optional to start using your Alby Hub. This account gives you a lightning address⚡, allowing you to receive satoshis directly without the need to issue invoices every time you want to receive some sats and better user support possibilities along your bitcoin journey.

Are you interested in a personal onboarding session? Book one here. ☎️

Let's launch!🚀

Here is how:

That’s it. Your own lightning node is ready. 😊

Now you only need to top up your balance, open one payment channel to be connected to the bitcoin lightning network and store a backup of your wallet offline. We'll guide you through all of this.

At the end you'll have full control and sovereignty over your money.

How to open your first payment channel 🛢️

How to deposit to your bitcoin onchain wallet or buy your first bitcoin 📥

Further details:

⬆️Buy Bitcoin & Top up your wallet

How to top up your spending balance by opening a lightning channel!⚡

You don’t need to open another channel if you already have one with "Receiving Capacity." Only do this if you want to top up using on-chain funds. Alternatively, you can add funds to your existing channel through a swap, without the need to create a new one. 😊

Further details:

📤Top up Spending Balance How to open a channel?

How to Link your Alby Hub to your Alby account to activate your lightning address

-> This feature will be automatic in the near future. For the moment, you have to "manually" link your hub to your lightning address (provided by your Alby web Account).

On "Connection", click on "Link your Alby Account". After seconds it should be linked with a green text mentioning "✅Alby Account Linked"

Why do I need to link my Alby Account?

For Advanced Users: The protocol that links your Alby Hub to your Alby account is called NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect). This protocol is the same that is used to link your Alby Hub to many other apps on the app store. On the link below we cover the subject of connecting Alby Hub to other apps.

🔗App Connections

How to increase your receiving capacity in Alby Hub 🤑

Further details:

📥Increase Receiving Capacity Should I open a private or public channel?

🎈 Congratulations! 🎉 This section contains everything you need to get your Alby Hub self-custodial wallet up and running smoothly! If you're eager to dive deeper and learn more about the Alby Hub, feel free to explore the additional sections through the links below 👇. Thanks for your interest! 😃

Thank you for stopping by! This section was created with contributions from Jean-Paul, Moritz & Tomek

Last updated 28 days ago