{"id":85070,"date":"2024-09-25T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/alby-releases-alby-go-a-mobile-app-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-lightning-payments\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:23:10","slug":"alby-releases-alby-go-a-mobile-app-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-lightning-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/alby-releases-alby-go-a-mobile-app-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-lightning-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Alby Releases Alby Go, A Mobile App For Self-Custodial Bitcoin Lightning Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/.image\/c_fit%2Ch_800%2Cw_1200\/MjA5NTI2NjU4MTgzNDcyNzkw\/screenshot-2024-09-24-at-104651pm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, Alby announced the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/albygo.com\/\">Alby Go<\/a>, a mobile application available for iOS and Android that allows users to make self-custodial payments via their Lightning node.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;ALBY MOBILE WEN?&quot; \ud83d\ude44<br \/>&quot;guys, when will you release an app?&quot; \ud83d\ude44<br \/>&quot;i want wallet from Alby on myPhone&quot; \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>You can stop asking &#8211; Alby mobile is here \u2757\ufe0f<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>Please welcome, on your phones, on GitHub, in your appstores&#8230;.<br \/>\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80 ALBY GO \ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WtrJ1eKrs3\">pic.twitter.com\/WtrJ1eKrs3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alby \ud83d\udc1d (@getAlby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/getAlby\/status\/1839033941279519133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Users can connect the app to Lightning nodes and wallets including <a href=\"https:\/\/albyhub.com\/\">Alby Hub<\/a>, Umbrel, Start9, LifPay and CoinOS to enable self-custodial Lightning payments. The app most easily integrates with Alby Hub, an open-source wallet that Alby <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/alby-opens-waitlist-for-alby-hub-a-one-click-lightning-node\">recently released<\/a> that makes Lightning nodes easy to access and use from multiple devices. Alby Go also provides a straightforward wallet interface to <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc.dev\/\">Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC)<\/a>-enabled Lightning wallets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlby Go is our next step in making bitcoin accessible everywhere, now bringing it to users&#8217; pockets,\u201d said Alby co-founder Alby Michael Bumann in a press release. \u201cBy utilizing the NWC messaging protocol, we facilitate seamless use of multiple nodes and wallets in a lightweight app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other features of Alby Go include a contact list, which lets users store Lightning addresses of frequent contacts for quick and convenient transactions; currency conversion and dark\/light theme settings.<\/p>\n<p>Alby Go is currently in version 1.5 and Alby encourages users to <a href=\"https:\/\/feedback.getalby.com\">contact the Alby team<\/a> with suggestions on how to improve the app. The app\u2019s code is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/getalby\/hub\">open-source<\/a> and ready for reviews and contributions.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on Alby, see our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/alby-a-hub-for-the-bitcoin-and-lightning-economy\"><em>Founders piece<\/em><\/a><em> on Alby co-founder Michael Bumann.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/alby-releases-alby-go-a-mobile-app-for-self-custodial-bitcoin-lightning-payments\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Alby announced the release of Alby Go, a mobile application available for iOS and Android that allows users to make self-custodial payments via their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}