Oddbean new post about login | logout Alby Go + Alby Hub = 🔥
Yes love it as well
Wish it worked without alby's backend; I'd love to host the whole Hub myself, auth & everything.
it works without Alby's backend! We specifically use NWC in Alby Go as a protocol that directly can talk to your self hosted Alby Hub and in v1.8 you also no alby account is required anymore with the hub. (you might want an account for notifications, ln address, etc. but it is not required.) So Alby Go talks directly to your Alby Hub wherever you host it.
Hmm, when I bring up a new AlbyHub v1.8 it still asks me to connect my Alby account during the onboarding to get the Authorization code.. (and yes, I tried deleting ~/.local/share/albyhub)
It's the go-to way to self host, hand down. 🙌 Once they remove the requirement to have a getalby account, it'll be truly self sovereign.
when it works 95%of the time its way faster then the version before hub... to zap
AlbyHub does support several backends (LND, CLN, BreezSDK, Greenlight, Cashu etc) - but it also come with its own embedded node (using LDK), which is the easiest nntaleb way to start for fresh users. Just deposit on-chain funds, press Open channel and off you go. Or alternatively, purchase an incoming channel from an LSP
Yes. But you are still not fully immune to force closes; these are part of the LN network and if your channel wants to FC on you, they can - no matter which node you have. But the recommended channel peers in AlbyHub tend to be pretty good in that regard.