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Dikaios1517 dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago
Hello Danny! It looks like you are using Primal's wallet as your receiving wallet for zaps right now. It's a great wallet if you are only going to be sending and receiving zaps on the Primal mobile app. Unfortunately, since it does not have the ability to connect to other Nostr apps using something called Nostr Wallet Connect, it has limited functionality outside of the Primal mobile app. Indeed, you can't even use it on the Primal web app, yet. It sounds like you want to broaden your horizons and start using other apps, so a more broadly useful wallet may be a good choice at this time. My recommendation would be CoinOS.io, since it has Nostr Wallet Connect support and is easy to get set up. Now for Alby. Folks have probably pointed you to Alby's extension as a way to sign into Nostr web apps, because it is FAR safer to have Alby store your private key and log in for you than it is to paste your private key into every Nostr website you want to try out. That said, the Alby Extension is primarily a way to use lightning on the web, and only a Nostr signing application secondarily. It is offering you either a free or a paid option for using Alby as your lightning wallet by running a lightning node called Alby Hub either on your own device or on their cloud service, which is the paid option. Since you are just getting started with lightning, this is a bit of a tall order to try and do out the gate. Here would be my recommendations. Rather than using Alby as your Nostr signer extension, use Nos2x. Or, if you want to use Alby for Nostr signing, and you set up @Mysterious Hamster as your lightning wallet, you CAN connect your CoinOS wallet to the Alby extension using Nostr Wallet Connect, which will make zapping on web apps WAY easier. The second option takes a little bit to get set up, but nothing too crazy. I would be happy to help get you through it if you want to go that route. Of course, if you go with CoinOS for your lightning wallet, that means you would not necessarily need the Primal wallet anymore. This depends on whether you use an Android or iOS device. If you are on Android, CoinOS can be connected to Primal in the place of their built-in wallet. If you are on iOS, unfortunately that is not a possibility.
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npub172h5...ryef 11 months ago
Wow, thank you for such a detailed explanation. It sounds like I would want to go with option 2 Coinos and Alby since it is the easiest way for zaps across the entire Noster platform. I am an iOS user. So am I understanding correctly that I would have two wallets the primal wallet and the coinos wallet and they would function separately from each other? And would I be able to transfer from one to the other if and when necessary? Also would I be able to direct all transactions to and from my Coinos wallet and not my Primal?
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Dikaios1517 dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago
Happy to help! Yes, CoinOS and Primal wallets would be independent from one another. You will need to choose which one you want to receive your zaps to. I would recommend whichever one you plan to do most of your zapping from. You CAN change it later, if you see you are using a different wallet more than you had expected you would. In order to change which wallet you are receiving zaps to, you will need to go to your profile settings and change the lightning address from DannyConnolly@primal.net to whatever you set up with CoinOS as your address. You absolutely can transfer back and forth between both wallets whenever you need to. Lightning fees are generally small and reasonable. Whenever you are using Primal on your iOS device, you will always be zapping from your Primal wallet balance. Once you have CoinOS connected to your Alby extension, you will always be zapping from your CoinOS balance on any Nostr web app. Whichever lightning address you have listed in your profile will always be where you receive zaps from other nostriches.
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