Roland

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Public Key

npub1zk6u7mxlflguqteghn8q7xtu47hyerruv6379c36l8lxzzr4x90q0gl6ef

NIP-05 Address

rolznz@getalby.com

NIP-57 Address

rolznz@getalby.com

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nostr-pub.wellorder.net

relay.damus.io

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2025-05-12 05:33:58

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Have you tried Alby Hub? I lived off my self-custodial lightning wallet spending bitcoin for a month in El Salvador without a single failed payment. (Accomodation, food, groceries, bitdriver etc)

2025-04-28 06:20:08

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Make a nostr bot and self host it, and use a different api key just for that bot
You could also limit who it will reply to?

2025-04-26 01:25:08

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Alby Lightning Tools has some zapping functions which might help: https://github.com/getAlby/js-lightning-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#zapping-a-ln-address-on-nostr

2025-04-13 14:08:07

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I think one day soon that’s going to be like saying the worst way you can start your journey is using a high level language instead of assembly or straight binary

2025-04-13 11:09:31

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Hmm. You don’t even have to read or understand the code when you do true vibe coding, but you do need to learn how to write a good prompt, and maybe that’s hard without dev knowledge. Genspark.ai for example you don’t need a local setup. It’s great!

2025-04-13 05:41:17

I can see this happening with AI agents and MCP (custom tools/plugins for your AI agent). All you need is an interface to an AI agent and then it has all these tools it can use to compose anything you need. There's already MCP servers for NWC and Nostr. Although very basic, they allow you to interact with these tools with natural language. Right now when I use it I get text, but soon the AI can build the most user-friendly interface based on the data / requirements?
It's kind of a scary but also exciting thought - the end of traditional websites and applications as we know them, but to be replaced by a much more efficient and modular way, through thousands of small tools that the AI can choose from and use together to solve a particular request.
#nevent1q…uhfc

2025-04-12 14:35:17

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I just vibe-coded TODOstr with 3 prompts and no code manually added or modified: https://github.com/rolznz/todostr
Which however is not one of your ideas, but contains the main nostr + lightning requirement (sign and post notes using alby extension, ability to zap people's notes).
(See my reasoning why I made a TODO app, mainly I was low on time and Memestr original request is a bit more complicated - mainly image generation and uploads, WoT)
This prompt is quite a good base though and could be modified and expanded to actually implement one of your initial ideas.
My workflow is committed, including my initial prompt idea, my refined prompt (much more detailed), and two follow-up prompts, and the entire AI conversation.

2025-04-10 03:57:02

MCP for your AI chat is like a USB plug for your computer. It allows the LLM to interact seamlessly with different tools, where the credentials can be stored locally and inaccessible by the AI itself. For example the @npub19hg…yv9p MCP server: https://github.com/getalby/nwc-mcp-server that allows you to interact with your lightning wallet using natural language, while not having access to the NWC connection secret.
NWC is kind of similar that it exposes a set of tools an app can use. The app doesn't need to understand how multiple different wallet APIs work any more, instead it only needs to understand one, NWC. And then instantly your app can be connected to by any NWC-compatible wallet.

2025-03-27 11:54:52

My 100% cotton T shirt arrived today from https://www.thebullish.shop/ by @npub15yp…mpcx
https://image.nostr.build/132278ed1be986e4f1bc0ad288f7e38af667b52837bc4078c4d5bd8b21e9e05d.png

2025-03-23 04:26:15

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Any chance you have sync enabled in Chrome and use multiple devices or browser profiles also with sync enabled for the same account?

2025-03-15 06:43:20

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Yes got it, thank you 💪

2025-03-15 05:47:32

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I ordered one, I think M run your own node T shirt (I cannot see a confirmation), nice bitcoin connect integration!

2025-03-15 05:13:15

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Awesome!
Do you do worldwide shipping? it seems there is no shipping price.

2025-03-12 18:38:01

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Unfortunately if you started a new self hosted hub with only the seed phrase, it’s not enough to recover the funds from open channels. If you connected your Alby Account we might have an encrypted backup of your channels, or if you still have your old files from before you tried to migrate, you might be able to recover those funds

2025-03-12 17:04:47

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Did you do a full re-scan of your wallet?

2025-03-11 03:03:52

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It seems like it could be an issue with your LQwD channel. Are you able to open another channel with a different LSP in the meantime?
In case you are happy to share further details so we can debug it, it would be great if you can email support@getalby.com

2025-03-05 11:41:23

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What do you mean by "Logged Out"? you can be "logged out" of the UI but Alby Hub is still running. You can check if the page says "Start" or "Log in". Logging in just gives you access to the UI.
How do you know your lightning address is not accessible? did you try to pay yourself? can you contact Alby Support next time it happens so we can debug it?

2025-02-26 14:40:59

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Most Alby Hubs are self-hosted so I don’t think it’s easy to run a mint over http. That’s what NWC fixes

2025-02-26 08:40:44

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They force you to use a custodial wallet or run your own mint, I think? NWC allows for both custodial and non-custodial wallets.

2025-02-26 08:39:05

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@npub18kz…x5sz Alby almost has a simpler version of NWA implemented for Alby Go. Flash wallet is also interested. We are getting there!
I will share a PR soon for the proposed updates to the NIP-47 spec (rather than a separate NIP).

2025-02-19 12:17:44

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Alby Hub uses LDK by default. But for Umbrel/Start9 runners - make sure your LND is up to date

2025-02-19 07:20:44

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We are also working with @npub1xnf…lpr5 to enable automatic extensions of channel duration. This should help, but will take some time to implement.

2025-02-18 05:03:54

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Hi, no this doesn’t happen. Do you use the extension on multiple synced browsers?

2025-02-18 04:26:46

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กำลังรอหนังสือส่งมาครับ อยากอ่าน 😁

2025-02-17 16:50:46

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The city is called Huai Pheung https://youtu.be/211meP4liIo

2025-02-17 04:21:21

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It should be back up!

2025-02-17 04:13:09

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The Alby nostr relay was not functioning correctly, we are looking into the cause. Sorry about this!

2025-02-16 10:25:11

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Good question. @NWC fixes this.

2025-02-16 06:25:58

This is Alby Hub’s second-most wanted feature after Bolt12
Anyone want to contribute? It’s open source, no nostr knowledge needed, just add a CLN implementation of our LNClient interface (already multiple implementations to look as a reference)! #note17lx…5uwm

2025-02-12 06:42:39

Support the Thailand Bitcoin City project!
https://geyser.fund/project/huaiphuengproject?hero=roland
#siamstr

2025-02-11 03:08:57

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I think I just updated lightning tools to be able to decode 0-amount invoices. What functions from lightning tools do you use in your app?

2025-01-27 10:54:11

You can open (and later close) a lightning channel with just 2 onchain transactions. You can then do thousands or even millions of payments on that channel. This is a huge block space optimisation while maintaining self-custody ⚡️ #note1gmw…hcg2

2025-01-27 10:47:59

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CoinOS, LifPay, LNbits, Minibits, and I think a few other cashu wallets support NWC

2025-01-27 10:42:38

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ขอบคุณมากครับ 😁

2025-01-27 10:39:02

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Edit: I was wrong. We need to wait until LDK-node 0.5 is released.

2025-01-27 06:37:47

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0.0.125. LDK-node just released a hotfix release that updates LDK to 0.1. I will see if we can get it into Alby Hub 1.14.0

2025-01-24 06:17:30

เงินเฟ้อคือคดีอาญา
Inflation is a crime
#siamstr #chitbeer
https://image.nostr.build/81ada498654976f97b8ffbdd2bb2659f088d9900063f20950c00a40cbb77fb27.jpg

2025-01-21 06:37:14

There are two types of bitcoiners.
One who stacks bitcoin and spends fiat.
One who stacks bitcoin and spends bitcoin.
Which one are you? Which one do you want to be? Which one WILL you be?

2025-01-20 16:29:42

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Alby Hub currently doesn’t store a nostr private key and is only for payments right now, not social (although we are considering nsecbunker support)
To import a nostr private key into the Alby Extension, open the popup and click the dropdown on the top right. When you open that, you should see your currently selected wallet and a settings icon on the right hand side. From there you can get to the nostr settings

2025-01-19 07:13:26

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Like @npub1m0s…gcru says: we need more spenders, not more merchants 😞

2025-01-18 07:53:15

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Be the change you want to see in the world

2025-01-18 07:50:26

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Ming said there were new employees and will look into it to ensure they can accept btc

2025-01-18 07:46:35

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I sent him a message to ask

2025-01-09 02:30:52

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I just saw @npub1gz8…xjkt has picked it up, awesome! https://github.com/getAlby/hub/pull/962

2025-01-08 16:54:06

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We have many issues to work on and are looking for an external contributor to help. Do you know any cashu devs who might be interested? Maybe we can make a bounty

2025-01-01 12:52:47

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Yes, please do update to the latest version (1.12.0) before migrating

2024-12-25 06:54:51

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เสียใจด้วยครับ

2024-12-25 04:28:29

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ถึงตอนนั้นแล้ว คงไม่ถึง 10 sat

2024-12-25 03:02:51

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Hi! Our experience on Raspberry PI Zero has been a bit mixed and it is still quite experimental. I would probably recommend to start from scratch if you are ok to open a new channel. You can run two hubs connected to the same Alby Account, but you can only receive lightning address payments to one of them.

2024-12-24 03:53:43

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This is why DM integration is harder than expected. But thanks for the feedback, maybe we can find a way to easily add it if we see more usage of ZapPlanner

2024-12-24 03:52:15

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We might soon add ZapPlanner integration directly into Alby Hub 😉

2024-12-24 03:48:41

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Would you provide an nprofile so we know what relays to publish the dm to?

2024-12-24 03:45:33

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Did you manage to actually pay it? There was one failure

2024-12-24 03:44:32

@npub19hg…yv9p fixes subscription payments #note1pdg…njxc

2024-12-24 03:43:06

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NIP-17 DMs? Does your client support them?

2024-12-22 03:53:48

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I hope only on the recipient end or it’s a complete waste of time.
“ensuring stability” 🤡

2024-12-18 06:58:31

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Glad you got it working! 🎉

2024-12-18 06:31:30

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Did you unlock Alby Hub after the reboot?

2024-12-18 06:09:45

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Does a restart of Alby Hub work? We have a relay reconnection fix in 1.12.0 which should be released on Start9 and Umbrel soon.

2024-12-17 17:09:17

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Alby Hub

2024-12-17 06:51:30

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BOLT-12 is planned! but it needs to be prioritized among our other features or we need to receive a PR from an external contributor. We will most likely add support for LDK-node first (the default Alby Hub node backend)

2024-12-16 09:48:27

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Any chance you could send the whole log file to Alby Support (support@getalby.com).
Do normal connections (e.g. Alby Go) work now?

2024-12-16 07:37:00

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Yes! No need to close channels. Go to Settings-> Migrate node

2024-12-16 06:49:59

1 sat is now worth more than Chilean Peso https://rolznz.github.io/satparity/
We are now 21% through The Sattening

2024-12-16 05:59:49

Any #cashu developers interested in contributing to the Alby Hub cashu backend? https://github.com/getAlby/hub/issues/890
@npub1get…0nfm

2024-12-14 15:32:46

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@npub1qd6…e0mj ใช้ filter 😄

2024-12-14 10:30:03

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55555 แค่ 1 หรือ 2 ปี จะต้องดูแก่ลงเท่าไหร่ครับ 🤣

2024-12-14 03:59:51

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มันเกิดขึ้นบางครั้ง เหมือนยังมี bug
จะพยายามแก้ไขใน version ต่อไป

2024-12-14 03:55:55

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เหมือนไม่ได้ link กับ Alby Account

2024-12-14 03:52:41

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Always :-)

2024-12-14 03:52:19

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สวัสดีครับ 😀

2024-12-14 03:51:35

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ทำไม zap ไม่ได้ครับ

2024-12-14 03:51:02

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ขอบคุณมากคุณพระหลวง

2024-12-14 03:49:49

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ตุยคืออะไร 😀

2024-12-13 03:57:02

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อ่านง่ายไหมครับ

2024-12-06 06:00:32

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555 ไปทักทายที่เชียงใหม่ แถมได้จ่าย bitcoin ด้วย

2024-12-05 02:44:13

Paying for coffee with lightning at October Coffee in Chiang Mai Thailand 🇹🇭 also a hostel with private rooms available! #siamstr https://video.nostr.build/05e328e9d9a3de4ac32c9f7f1371e088f0e4558c52e9a66f745cf41f86939eba.mp4

2024-12-01 23:40:36

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I will probably try to go when I visit for the xmas party

2024-12-01 22:17:09

After visiting Berlin and El Zonte in El Salvador 🇸🇻 , I am looking forward to the chance to visit Huai Phueng in Thailand 🇹🇭 #adoptingbitcoin #hpp #siamstr #note16hd…50el

2024-11-30 06:03:26

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Just saw in Chiang Mai Bitcoin-Only telegram today!

2024-11-27 02:04:52

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Awesome! Unfortunately the website is not on github, but I think @npub1m0s…gcru is best to update it. Can you add the new snippet?

2024-11-22 13:40:32

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Cool! It would be awesome to create a go NWC SDK (or add a PR for a nip47 package to go-nostr)

2024-11-22 02:08:51

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Yes, with NWC and Alby Hub you can add metadata when you create an invoice. You could look at the Alby JS SDK as an easy way to get started

2024-11-21 21:46:10

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The LSPs we work with aim to keep channels open indefinitely as long as you use it and keep your node online.
If a channel is closed, the funds on your side of the channel will go to your onchain balance.

2024-11-20 17:24:54

Since I arrived in El Zonte three days ago I have not spent fiat. Not even once. #bitcoincountry

2024-11-16 19:15:17

https://image.nostr.build/caf454c55799d6b7e6ab39041d4dfb43297f6556e9ce605256b7a801731614d1.jpg
You don’t change Bitcoin. Bitcoin changes you

2024-11-16 07:18:52

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ถ้าใช้ custodial ก่อนปีหน้าควรจะย้ายเงินออกครับ หรือเปลี่ยนเป็น Alby Hub ได้ครับ

2024-11-12 02:53:00

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I’m so glad I don’t use Windows anymore

2024-11-12 01:32:28

Bitcoin Satoshis hit parity with Argentine Peso overnight: https://rolznz.github.io/satparity/ #note1spt…tu4n

2024-11-11 11:44:38

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The current max fee is 1% + 50 sats for LDK (we just use the defaults). In LDK-node 0.4.2 which was recently released it makes it a bit easier to customise from the Alby Hub side, but I’m not sure we will add the ability to change it. The best solution could be to do bigger zaps 😁

2024-11-11 04:44:17

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Just a linear algorithm for past prices and my own random future price predictions

2024-11-11 03:05:18

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Both channels you have are private, right? There could be cheaper routes to your hub via LNServer.

2024-11-11 02:55:49

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If you use Umbrel or Start9 then Alby Hub uses the local bitcoin core. You don’t need to connect your Alby Account to Alby Hub, and the final thing is the relay, where you can configure to use a different one via env (NOTE: the relay communication is end to end encrypted)

2024-11-11 02:52:18

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We’re working on an experimental open source LNURL server that you can create a lightning address using a permissioned NWC connection secret. It’s not quite ready yet (Missing NIP-05 and zapper functionality) but it’s here: https://github.com/getalby/lite

2024-11-10 06:32:01

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Hi, unfortunately we don’t have a MyNode package yet. We’d be happy for help! There’s an open issue on the Alby Hub GitHub repository

2024-11-09 16:36:52

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It’s another app with exactly the permissions (make invoice, lookup invoice, get balance, list transactions) and is isolated. I have an Alby Hub PR to make this easy to do :-)

2024-11-09 16:02:03

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Sure, maybe I can add a zap button on the page too. Thanks!

2024-11-09 16:00:44

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It’s just a linear equation based on some random guesses I made for cycle tops for the next few cycles. 300k this cycle, 3M next, then 10M, then 100M 😁

2024-11-09 15:23:46

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Thanks! It’s hard to make custom permissions for isolated apps right now which is what this uses, but I have a PR to improve it which will hopefully be in the next version of Alby Hub.
This app isn’t in the hub (I don’t think it makes sense there) but it’s open source. https://github.com/rolznz/satparity

2024-11-09 15:16:48

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It’s using NWC to fetch the transactions from an isolated read-only app in Alby Hub