68: Lightning Grows Up
By Chris Fisher
Aired Aug 11, 2025 · 39m · Last boosted Aug 12, 2025
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Alby Hub is doing more than meets the eye. Co-founder Moritz Kaminski joins to break down the latest features, how they're advancing the Lightning ecosystem, and making it all approachable for friends, family, and the next wave of users. Show Notes: Moritz on Nostr Moritz Kaminski on X Alby Hub - Your own Bitcoin Lightning node: easy, connectable, feature-rich ✨ Run anywhere. Become self-sovereign. Release v1.18.5 Johan Helsingius · getAlby/hub Alby Go Alby Community Call BOLT 12 Send Messages With Keysend lightning-address fountain-fm/podpay podcast-namespace lnaddress.md
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I enjoyed the interview but for sure felt that it is/would be out of place as a regular episode of TWIB. Now, as one of the specials, absolutely fits. Keep up the good work Chris!
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Update to fountain subscription feedback - it seems that the 'subscribe for early access' message gets downloaded in place of the episode, so I had to delete it from my library and then manually search for the episode and re-add it to my library to listen. The 'subscribe for early access' message wasn't automatically replaced in my library when the full episode became available for everyone.
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Enjoyed getting an #AlbyHub updates from Moritz. Extremely bullish on Alby and have been since #PC20 added them years ago.
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Love #AlbyGo and it's notifications. Also it's the fastest way to pay a lighting invoice. Also a great way so see if your #AlbyHub is only b/c it won't connect if your AlbyHub is offline.
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Some fountain subscription feedback... I didn't subscribe for early access yet - and now the episode is no longer tagged as "early access" but I'm still unable to listen to it - it still just plays the 'subscribe to get early access' message.
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It's all so broken with podcasting and wallets but this also involves music, audiobooks and anything else PC 2.0 wants to put on a RSS feed. Thanks for being this to more ears Chris and Alby have been nothing but great to us DIYers this while time.
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The issue with other apps just switching to lnurl is that it requires more sever load and apps like Castamatic run on device so what do they do? Also the metadata like was mentioned. Fountain isn't the only game in town and there are other apps that have been doing this V4V lightning thing before them that can't be left behind. They all use Alby and it's been great but now with the AlbyHub switch we need an alternat…
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Thank you sir
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Cheap boost.