With some effort you can completely isolate it from Alby, but it will not be a one click operation. I understand why it is as it is, since you’ll need LNURL (domain), NWC relay (one more thing to run), and mainnet sync (bitcoincore with some indexer). If they made it fully isolated, it wouldn’t be possible to make it as easy or lightweight 🫡
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)
Agree! I am full DIY and don’t use any star/umbrel setups, but I’ll get there with my own manual setup! 🫡🫂
One more ask, while I have you here. Would it be possible to allow us to set maximum LN fee that we want to pay? I just discovered that I was dropping 10 sats in fees when trying to zap some of the people, and spent over 200 sats in LN fees in the past 4 days. Zapping 8 sats and paying 10 sats in fees just doesn’t feel right 😂
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 😁
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