nostr:nprofile1qqsrxra3gv0lnkxz2pcxh0xuq9k4f9dr7azwq3aypqtnay4w0mjzmtqve7c2c Thanks for responding,
It is difficult now a year later to remember which/what channel it was (EDIT: the link in the e-mail took me to Megalith LSP). All I know is there was no warning at all, and no sats have re-appeared in my self-hosted Alby Hub under Node as the e-mail said it should. So the point is then that my Lightning Wallet was never under my control from what I'm seeing.
So without warning the channel is gone, and all my sats. I used the network every day so this cannot be from "not being used".
Sadly, this is going to be a real showstopper for any other users of the Lightning Network and/or Alby.
I'm a computer programmer and understand tech - I really cannot see how this will ever attract ordinary users. The mail I got came from "Your Alby Team" informing me the channel was closed. So it is true that maybe the real issue is with the channel - no idea which channel now, and certainly don't want to get involved with other channels if this is how it is going to go.
Despite having a self-hosted Alby Hub, this goes to show I was never in control of my sats at all. Otherwise they would have showed up there still. It was certainly connected every single day, as it was being used to authenticate my access to Nostr. Now I don't even know if I'll be able to access Nostr tomorrow after rebooting my computer. This may be the end of my access altogether.
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Are you able to backup your npub private key?
As long as you have that you can still access Nostr.
If you need help choosing a nostr client and another lightning wallet. I will make sure you can get back up and running in under 15 minutes.
Yes, I see now from Megalith LSP there is this comment on the Alby guides: "Your channel stays open longer if you send or receive at least one payment per 30 days". So despite daily posting I obviously never received any sats for the last month, and I had not sent either, so the channel just got closed and I have lost my sats. No warning, and no value whatsoever in actually self-hosting the Alby Hub. I'm certainly not going to burn my fingers again on the Lightning network. This has just never happened to me with Bitcoin - my offline wallets retain my find no matter what (that is proper control). The self-hosting was a farce (my self-hosted Hub wallet still shows 0 stats).
Thanks yes I certainly have all my keys backed up. I just don't want any more wallets that are connected via channels that are going to disappear. This is not how Bitcoin and other crypto works - your wallet should be your wallet.
I do have a Muun wallet with Lightning I see
why do you think you have not been in control?
you have been as much in control as the channel partner. so anyone can close.
you see the details on the node page.
and you get an email notification because you enabled those about events of your wallet. interesting that you think the sender controls this.
I know lightning is still early and complicated… also as you’re a programmer feel free to open an issue on github… it’s all open source
All I'm saying is I had a fully functional self-hosted Alby Hub. It had a balance this morning showing, now it shows 0 sats. That was not in my control. If it was I'd still see the balance I had. It means in fact the balance was not really in my hub at all. Seems it had something more to do with the connector then. I should have been able to pick a different connector, and carried on using what balance I had in my Hub. It appears that the connector actually had the control. I don't have my sats now, I don't see them on the GetAlby site account, so I assume the connector has it. That was not under my control then at all.
Here are screenshots of my GetAlby account, as well as my self-hosted Alby Hub. My sats are all gone since the connector closed earlier today.
If I had any control over it I would at least see my balance still there(my wallet was not actually in my self-hosted hub). Nostr was my first experience with Lighting wallets, and it was way more complicated than Bitcoin.
This has not been a good experience, yet I still have my Bitcoin. Right now, I'm thoroughly unimpressed with the Lightning network (or at least the connectors). It certainly does not inspire me at all go want to go deeper into it.
Because it is complicated, I don't know why/who/where it went wrong. All I know is, I did nothing to it today, and I have 0 sats now. Someone must have my sats now. There is no way I'm paying for another connector to connect 0 sats.

