Thank you very much for this review 🙏. Here is an English translation: Bitcoin Apps I Use – Part 10: Alby Go Today, I'm sharing the app I currently use most frequently – and it has a bit of a story: Alby Go. I originally ran my own node with Alby Hub at home. Until the hardware failed. Instead of rebuilding, I easily migrated to Alby Cloud – which now hosts my Hub, but I retain the keys. Self-custody in the cloud, with significantly less maintenance than running my own node. What I appreciate about it: → Self-custodial, even in the cloud. Alby Cloud hosts the Hub infrastructure, but I keep the keys. Structurally similar to Phoenix with ACINQ – a service provider supplies the infrastructure, and I retain custody. → NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect). Alby Go becomes the backend for Nostr clients and other apps. Zaps are sent directly from the wallet, and web apps can access it with permissions and budget limits. This is a huge leap forward in terms of user experience – and a feature that hardly any other app offers. → Lightning Address built in. you@getalby.com works immediately and also serves as a Nostr identifier. It can be personalized with your own domain. → Sub-accounts for families. Multiple separate sub-wallets under one hub. This allows family members to have their own Lightning wallets without each needing their own node or channel liquidity. → Seamless switching between self-hosted and cloud. I was able to switch from my own hosting to Alby Cloud without any data loss. It also works the other way around – anyone who wants to self-host can go back. Alby is consistently designed so that users can choose their own infrastructure layer. → More affordable than Phoenix with active use. My monthly cloud fee is lower than the Phoenix routing and liquidity fees I would otherwise incur. That was a surprise – and makes Alby Go attractive for my everyday use. → What you should know: → Cloud providers are a single point of failure. The keys are with me, but if Alby's service goes down, access to the hub is temporarily affected. Recovery via the keys remains possible at any time, but in everyday use, you're dependent on the service. → Self-hosting remains the "stronger" option. Those who want to run their own hub on Umbrel, Start9, or a mini-PC have no dependency on a hosting provider and are also independent of Alby as a company. Cloud is the pragmatic solution – self-hosting is the more sovereign one. → Monthly fees apply. Unlike Phoenix (pay-per-use via fees), Alby Cloud is a subscription. It's worthwhile for active users; for infrequent users, Phoenix would be cheaper. My conclusion: Alby Go is my most frequently used wallet. Self-custody without the maintenance overhead of running your own node, with NWC as the killer feature for Nostr and everything else, plus sub-accounts for family members – currently the best solution for my everyday needs. Phoenix remains the second self-custodial Lightning wallet in the stack, with different trade-offs. Both are self-custodial, both have a service provider in the background (ACINQ and Alby Cloud, respectively) – but different models. Which one is a better fit depends on how active you are and whether you want to use the NWC and sub-account features. View quoted note →