MoritzK

Building Alby - the browser extension for bitcoin payments and bitcoin apps on the web.
⚡moritz@getalby.com
(new profile; previous instance was shut down)

Public Key

npub1ckf3z0x9ttjgm7zcfn5uxud9kfjg6zgey7lgngweanmgun0a5m9qhxxct2

NIP-05 Address

moritzk_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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nostr.mom

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1ckf3z0x9ttjgm7zcfn5uxud9kfjg6zgey7lgngweanmgun0a5m9qhxxct2

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2025-11-21 18:15:43 UTC

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You had solid reasons for choosing Keysend payments in the first place.

2025-11-21 18:13:01 UTC

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1 sat payments are not spam.
A lightning address resolves to a URL that gives you a BOLT11 invoice. This invoice will be paid in the ideal case. Or it won't be paid for different reasons.
So we cannot know if there is a real payment intent behind a invoice request.

2025-11-21 16:00:14 UTC

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Payments to lightning addresses create an increased load on our server infrastructure, because of the high payment frequency in podcasting. That makes it difficult for us to reliably distinguish between spam and legitimate traffic, so some requests may get blocked accidentally.

2025-11-21 15:55:52 UTC

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Are these requests to a lightning address or plain keysend payments?

2025-11-06 18:04:10 UTC

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Do you plan to receive boosts and boostagrams?
That requires a public channel unfortunately.
Alby Hub -> Node -> Open Channel -> Click on "Advanced Options" to select a public channel -> Optional select another peer (e.g. LNServer has the lowest rates) -> Open Channel

2025-04-11 12:05:04 UTC

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I doubt because of FinCEN saying that a custodial wallet is a Money Service Businesse: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20Guidance%20CVC%20FINAL%20508.pdf

2025-03-20 08:18:24 UTC

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Could you pass on my email address to @nessworks to help out?
moritz@getalby.com

2025-02-16 17:25:16 UTC

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We haven't turned of any node.
The .well-known/keysend look up shows your Alby Hub node ID.
How can I help?

2025-01-18 19:44:27 UTC

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That looks high, yes.
Could you send a screenshot to support@getalby.com with the email address of your Alby account?
I'll have a look on Monday.
Thanks.

2024-12-09 07:20:22 UTC

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Martin, we offer personal onboarding sessions for Alby Hub. We answer any questions there from on-ramp to migration and PC2.0 value tags. They are quite fun and afterwards you are good to run yourself.
There are a few dates available this week. https://cal.com/getalby/alby-hub-onboarding

2024-12-08 07:16:55 UTC

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Migrations currently only work between Alby Hubs that are both based on LDK.
Migrating from Alby Cloud (LDK) to Start9 (LND) is not yet supported, unfortunately.
Start9 (LDK) should work however. But I haven't tried it myself yet. https://app.gitbook.com/o/uiUeRqI074apbV0PWsyf/s/TESBxdA83bO5QfV5RnQM/alby-hub/faq-alby-hub/how-can-i-migrate-alby-hub-to-a-different-machine

2024-12-05 08:56:17 UTC

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You are still on the early adopter 50% discount for the first 3 months.
And you also got the coupon assigned in November for the price adjustment.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/599/378/212/684/530/original/0959687f65d8eca1.png

2024-12-05 07:34:00 UTC

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We are currently working on a new Hub release with cool updates before we get to the pricing.
We plan to adjust it in two steps. 1) account for the recent price increase and reduce the price for Alby Cloud
2) switch from BTC denomination to USD denomination
But did you get our email last month? We distributed a 50% discount link to everybody who already uses Alby Hub longer than 3 months.

2024-11-29 17:59:10 UTC

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Cool demo!
Just to add and hopefully avoid any misunderstanding
- the cited Podcasting 2.0 LNAddress Value Spec. is just a lookup spec to initiate a keysend payment
- Alby Accounts can be connected via OAuth today
- Nostr Wallet Connect already supports PC2.0 keysend payments today.
Would love to see it reflected on the page.

2024-11-15 21:22:08 UTC

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Yes. Alby Hub is available as FOSS and you can use it for free on your own desktop. No additional node needed. Alby Hub already has a node integrated.
Would love to learn what makes it hard to run so that we can work on it.

2024-10-31 16:01:28 UTC

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my lightning address is moritz@getalby.com
I can request a lightning invoice from https://getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/moritz
and I can request the pubkey of my node from https://getalby.com/.well-known/keysend/moritz

2024-10-23 07:04:20 UTC

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Conshax back then started an initiative based on the LSAT protocol that embeds paid content into public podcast feeds which can be accessed by sending keysend payments. It works for any RSS-based listener app.
https://guides.getalby.com/open-content-payment-spec

2024-09-30 09:47:03 UTC

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It is Oktoberfest in Munich currently.
I guess you got a Oktoberfest light experience there.

2024-09-28 15:50:02 UTC

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getalby.com --> dashboard --> Settings --> Alby Account --> scroll down to Export Transactions

2024-09-27 18:21:02 UTC

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Congrats on winning the artwork.
I am sorry. There is no progress on the filter, yet.
You could you use the export functionality in your Alby account but then you get a not so nice looking csv file to filter.

2024-09-27 15:52:15 UTC

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The minimum size of a channel to this node is 50M sats.

2024-09-26 13:48:38 UTC

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🙏

2024-09-26 13:35:33 UTC

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Have you thought about opening a channel to https://amboss.space/node/03b65c19de2da9d35895b37e6fa263cefbf8d184e6b61c0713747ebf12409d219f
to exclude routing issues from a ZBD node?

2024-09-26 13:33:37 UTC

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We are receiving keysend and bolt-11 payments normally.

2024-09-20 14:45:34 UTC

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That's possible. You can open a channel to the podcastindex node and send all sats out of this channel (e.g. by spending them) This increases your receiving capacity of this channel. As a consequence you have a channel to a custom node partner with receiving capacity.
But that's a bit of work. That's why we added LSPs that sell you channels and increase your receiving capacity. It works in a few clicks or can even be automated in your Hub.

2024-09-20 14:39:22 UTC

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The channel opening works from one side only - your Alby Hub in this case.
Once the payment channel is opened and active, payments work bidirectionally. You can send and receive through the same channel.

2024-09-20 08:34:32 UTC

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You already have receiving capacity with the first channel we opened by default.
Opening a channel to podcastindex is good to connect your Hub better. 👍
1) Deposit at least 200,000 sats via an onchain transaction to your Hub (the more the better)
2) Open the channel: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/faq-alby-hub/how-to-open-a-channel-to-a-custom-node-or-any-node-on-the-network

2024-09-09 13:30:52 UTC

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Good point. Could you help me by upvoting this feature request https://feedback.getalby.com/-alby-accounts-request-a-feature-1/posts/hide-small-1-100-sat-transactions?
Thanks for checking out Alby Hub!

2024-09-06 13:37:07 UTC

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Currently both, the free and the paid plan, allow for multiple keysend wallets.

2024-09-06 09:57:29 UTC

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https://albyhub.com/ is a good first touchpoint.
Talk later, Russell.

2024-09-05 16:53:53 UTC

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Great. Thanks for the email address.
I just shared my calendar with you. Looking forward. 👍

2024-09-05 16:46:03 UTC

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The HTTP API is just a helper if you don't want to deal with websockets.
You can also communicate directly over a relay with the wallet.
https://docs.nwc.dev/reference-api/overview

2024-09-05 12:48:06 UTC

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Yes, there is an HTTP API:
https://guides.getalby.com/developer-guide/v/nostr-wallet-connect-api
We'll improve the docs to better address the specific needs of podcast apps in the next weeks. e.g. How to send a boostagram.

2024-09-05 10:44:35 UTC

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NWC is ready and is less Nostr than one might think 🙂
https://blog.getalby.com/an-open-payment-api-for-podcast-apps/

2024-08-26 15:32:07 UTC

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@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74
@npub1u0r…rak2
@npub1a6c…lfrr
Are you interested in offering a few subaccounts to podcasters and musicians?
Subaccounts get their own value block to receive boosts and boostagrams.

2024-08-26 08:59:27 UTC

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Hey, like @npub1e88…nva7 and @npub1z6g…amwj said, accounts that have been created before March 2024 will remain operational as you are used for a few months.
But we would like that people upgrade to Alby Hub, a very easy to use self-custodial wallet. Everything that you know from Alby (lightning address, SATurn.fly.dev, etc.) keeps working.
And you can provide subaccounts https://podcastindex.social/@ericpp/113023763204000056

2024-08-21 14:20:07 UTC

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Good to know. So cool to see that things are working well together.

2024-08-21 08:41:35 UTC

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It should. Helipad and Alby Hub connect via an LND interface to your node to show transaction data.

2024-08-18 06:39:39 UTC

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I am looking for some testers.
If you are curious how the app works, or you want to see how it is to receive your first boost or boostagrams as a podcasters or musician or you would like to support artists with one of the many podcasting 2.0 apps, let me know.
I will share the URL to create a wallet in one click together with an invite code for an Alby account.

2024-08-18 06:30:23 UTC

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This is an early Alby Labs project!
What happens? I am using my own Alby Hub and its integrated lightning node to host wallets for others.
I connected my Alby Hub to the Alby Jim app and people can automatically create a wallet on my Hub.
Everybody with an own Hub can be a host.
This is a trusted setup!

2024-08-18 06:24:14 UTC

Is that a helpful way to onboard family, friends, podcasters and musicians to V4V?
Create a wallet and plug it into:
- Alby Browser Extension
- Alby Account dashboard --> with an Alby account you can use this wallet in many podcasting 2.0 apps
no channels; same Alby account experience as always
+ lightning address
+ value tag for 4V4 payments
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/981/576/311/622/813/original/cec256cb986c34a9.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/981/584/447/097/650/original/28156b3962f057c4.png

2024-08-12 16:00:40 UTC

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Existing apps can send users to getalby.com who can signup for an Alby account without invite codes. That was the exception.
Pre July users can also keep their managed balance at Alby.
All new users start with Alby Hub, the new self-custodial lightning wallet.
You should try it and works well with podcasting 2.0. Let me send more infos.

2024-07-04 19:27:22 UTC

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Is there a difference when you send a boost or a boostagram?

2024-07-04 19:26:28 UTC

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Payments from my Hub + Alby Account + LNbeats are working.
Some of the obvious things to check are that you might have already done: Is the budget big enough for your Alby Account? Could you reconnect your Alby Account to LNBeats?

2024-06-29 13:45:52 UTC

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I just adjusted the guide for you if you want to connect your Umbrel node via NWC to your Alby Account: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-lightning-account/link-wallet

2024-06-29 13:30:36 UTC

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On the same page you also see a button "Use your own wallet" .
You'll need to add a NWC string. Are you using Umbrel, Start9 or something else?

2024-06-29 13:23:29 UTC

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Good point. We are making that more clear.
For now you can check: https://getalby.com/node
It shows if you use Alby's shared wallet or your own node.

2024-06-29 06:44:28 UTC

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You can connect various wallets and nodes to the Alby Extension (that's on one of your screenshots). That's mainly for sending sats on websites.
You can also link your own node/wallet link with your Alby Account and receive payments in a self-custodial way. That's how ChadF did it. It works with all NWC enabled wallets: Umbrel, Start9, Mutiny, Alby Hub LDK, Alby Hub LND.
What wallet are you currently using?

2024-06-09 07:42:43 UTC

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Alby Accounts are available for everybody. Only if you don't have an Alby Account yet and you are from the US, you will need to use the new self-custodial wallet.
Existing users from the US can keep using their existing Alby Account as always.
Alby does not block any payments.
If you are missing payments, let's check that.