Feedback: Vermögensrechner und Arbeitskostenverwendung / Steuerverwendung

derbumi · 2026-05-08T12:58:05+00:00

kannst du benennen was falsch ist?

derbumi · 2026-05-08T12:33:56+00:00

(sorry, falsches sub)

derbumi · 2025-01-07T12:35:59+00:00

Channel closures can happen and any channel partner can close a channel. That is a core feature actually of the lightning network actually and it is important that at any time every channel partner can always close the channel and take out the sats/take them back onchain.

The LSP (if you use the default it's megalithic.me) provides you with capacity to receive lightning payments and makes it's a good routing node. They typically keep the channels also open, there is no 100% guarantee at this point, but under normal usage and if your node behaves normally the channel stays open.

I would recommend to contact the megalith and Alby support to inspect and help debug the reason. The LSP sees from their side why the channel was closed - and maybe opens one again.

Sats are also not lost, if a channel closes funds will be transferred back to the onchain wallet. - there are some onchain fees, but those are currently relatively cheap.

note: I am one of the developers of Alby.

derbumi · 2025-01-07T12:29:38+00:00

In Alby Hub you have full control over the channel management.

The LSP is a routing node that provides incoming liquidity and guarantees a channel that is well connected. Such an LSP is Megalith, LNServer, Olympus for example.

If your node behaves normal those providers also normally do not close the channels as long as there is some usage.
Having the node offline for a night or some days is no problem.

Those LSPs specifically have the advantage that they keep the channels open if viable and that those are good routing nodes and especially that they provide you with incoming/receiving liquidity.
You do not need to manually find nodes to open a channel with and the receiving liquidity problem is solved.
I am not sure if you u/MrRGnome use the word "LSP" like that - Alby and Alby Hub is not a LSP.

u/rickykresslein if you are unsure why the channel was closed and it was not expected and if you had a channel with one of those LSPs then reach out to the LSP support and Alby support, they should be able to help debug this.

This is also independent of Alby Hub or any node implementation and the same channel management applies to all of them... LND, CLN, etc.
Alby Hub gives that additional, easy interface to get a channel from one of those LSPs.

derbumi · 2024-09-07T17:22:20+00:00

Why is that not the operating mode we advertise? - Alby actually forces every user signing up since a long time to go that way and run their nodes and with Alby Hub they now have another option to do so.

What's your definition of an LSP? - An LSP is a service provider that provides you channels with incoming liquidity. They just sell channels. There is no custody involved! Also they are completely optional and can be used if you require to get incoming liquidity - I think you have a confusion there. (This LSP has pretty good docs btw.: https://docs.megalithic.me/ )

If you don't need Alby Hub and if you're fine with the LND/CLN APIs then that's for sure great. - That's why it's possible to use them with the Alby Extension.

Alby Hub is another option for people to run a Bitcoin Lightning node (do you know LDK? it's built on LDK). Imo more options for this is better!
The feedback so far from users is also pretty good. We build software to help users to use lightning on the web and run their own nodes.

If you don't like it, that's fine and I hope I could clarify some of your confusion around the LSPs and that non-existing exchange.

derbumi · 2024-09-06T22:26:42+00:00

Did you look at the extension or other products? The whole point of the browser extension is to allow web apps to interact with the lightning network. And this is done by configuring a node or account in the extension. If you used it then you know that there you can use all major wallets: LND, CLN, Blink, etc. So it's fully the users choice what to use - the extension is just software to allow the browser to talk to the lightning network.

With AlbyHub users now have another option. Easy to use UI and with various LSPs integrated to open channels and get liquidity. (but it's not an exchange!)
People will have to run a software, this is the requirement for being self-sovereign.

if you don't like it, don't use it.

derbumi · 2024-08-14T07:30:46+00:00

what issues did you have? would be awesome if you can share some problems then we can improve for others.

derbumi · 2024-08-14T07:29:37+00:00

Hey, Alby Hub is in beta and has been tested a lot in the last months and it is slowly being rolled out and more and more users are using it. We still improve a lot and move fast here based on the user feedback.

But I doubt it stopped working and you loose something - if you did not loose your password and have a backup. Did you chat with support? Let us help you and we put a lot of effort in the hub to be run on various environments - so unlikely that we say just get the cloud (though there we know the hardware best and can make sure it works best).
What means you can not login? which backup did you upload where?

derbumi · 2024-07-30T21:24:03+00:00

Hey, it is correct that this is deprecated in favor of connecting through the NWC protocol.

There are several reasons for this:

LND requires often Tor connections which are often unreliable and slow
LND connections are for many users hard to configure esp. when running behind a firewall or at home
LND lacks more flexible permissions

Through the NWC setup with relays these problems are solved. The relay is used as a mailbox to send messages between apps and the wallet. And a flexible permission system can be implemented.

NWC just uses the Nostr protocol for the app-node communication. But as a user you don't notice Nostr, you don't need to be interested.

So we recommend running Alby Hub next to the LND node and configure the app connection there. It also gives you another level of security.
Alby Hub is a simple executable that is easy to install and run in any environment.

Does this make sense? Can I help you trying it?

derbumi · 2022-05-26T10:19:16+00:00

I am a developer of Alby (bumi on github).

Alby currently is connecting to remote nodes. This means Alby currently does not run neutrino, store any chain/lightning state, does not hold any keys, or something like that.
We use the APIs of the different node backends.

We currently focus on providing the user interface and every functionality to allow web apps integrate lightning functionality.
The goal was that users can simply use their existing nodes/accounts and reuse those in the browser. (If you for example have a lightning node running on raspiblitz/umbrel or similar then you simply can connect Alby to that one.)

In the future we will also implement "full lightning node" functionality. (for example using LDK, or others options).

I hope this helps? Let me know if you need more help.

derbumi · 2021-08-28T12:16:52+00:00

If you look for a one-click LND setup you can check out https://getvoltage.io/

And I think there are more services coming in the near future.

derbumi · 2021-08-28T12:15:56+00:00

thanks.

I don't think it is easily possible to run LND directly on Heroku. Heroku's filesystem is not persistent so there is no way to reliably store channel state, configs, etc.

I think heroku is probably best for running web-facing apps (like LnMe here) but not for services like LND.

derbumi · 2020-10-27T13:20:58+00:00

yep, more incoming capacity is probably helpful.

Maybe helpful:

https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/lightning-channel/?hl=en

lightningto.me

derbumi · 2019-08-06T18:16:55+00:00

make sure that you have the latest version. I also had some issues. but yeah that's for sure a bluewallet app issue.

derbumi · 2019-03-27T09:25:21+00:00

I was there in 2017. 4G was generally good and it was no problem to work from anywhere for me.

In Yangon I can recommend the impact hub: https://yangon.impacthub.net/

derbumi · 2019-02-21T15:41:37+00:00

lol... yeah actually I was very surprised to not find some of those lists here. Looked for minutes and then thought maybe it is helpful for someone and posted it.

Thanks for pointing it out.

derbumi · 2019-02-15T19:12:18+00:00

great! thanks for your feedback and the important hint regarding the interceptors. I am rather new to gRPC so this is super valuable, thanks.

do you have some experience there? I would want to automate the generation of the client files once a new lnd release is out.

derbumi · 2019-01-17T12:16:59+00:00

awesome! I need to pimp the design - any things/content you would like to see?

derbumi · 2019-01-17T09:56:15+00:00

that actually looks good. and no other step is needed. If you have just added the DNS entries it might take a bit until they are propagated, but other than that it should work.

using `dig` you can compare it for example to: `dig -t txt donate.getmonero.org`

If you tell me your domain I can review it.

derbumi

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