Today Alby Hub 1.7.2 was released which includes a new Friends & Family app for quickly onboarding (you guessed it) your friends and family to bitcoin and lightning, powered by your hub's liquidity. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can get their own lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet to the Alby extension, or very soon connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go. I'd love to jump on a call with anyone who would like to test the Friends & Family app or Alby Go, or just hear any feedback in general if you try it on your own! feel free to DM! @Alby

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Den Yellek 1 year ago
Looks fantastic. I love how one person is able to take on the complexities and make it dead simple for their friends and family. It keeps the barrier for entry low while keeping bitcoin decentralized.
Let it be known I only recommend 'Uncle Jim'ing for your family, not your friends. Liability for other peoples funds is no joke, and if you can't provide 100% uptime or guarantees of security, it could be dangerous. Encourage your friends to start their own Alby Hub. They can do it, it's dead simple πŸ’ͺ Only in rare circumstances should you onboard friends, and you should document who you have onboarded specifically in a safe notetaking place in case wallet services are deprecated and you need to alert everyone (example: bluewallet, Phoenix, Mutiny were all deprecated and I had to warn many orange pill'd friends)
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Today Alby Hub 1.7.2 was released which includes a new Friends & Family app for quickly onboarding (you guessed it) your friends and family to bitcoin and lightning, powered by your hub's liquidity. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can get their own lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet to the Alby extension, or very soon connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go. I'd love to jump on a call with anyone who would like to test the Friends & Family app or Alby Go, or just hear any feedback in general if you try it on your own! feel free to DM! @Alby
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Satsdaddy 1 year ago
This is something that I've struggled with. I'm interested in an easier way to onboard my friends and family.
I'm giving this a try. From my alby hub, I created an Isolated connection... But where do I paste this in my family members existing Alby wallet/extension/dashboard? Once I work this out, I should be able to finish setting this up (I think) πŸ™ŒπŸ€ž Also just noticed my Alby Hub still shows v1.6.0 - I couldn't figure out how to get it to update πŸ˜…
Friendly and easy onboarding process is a major step to the tipping point of Nostr adoption. This is lit! πŸ”₯
Which downloads the file from fdroid, I rather get it direct from source to be honest, so I can keep up with the changes.
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Den Yellek 1 year ago
Zap store has a section for me that shows all my apps that have an update available. But if there is a better way to install you can let me know I will be interested to take a look.
Obtainium alerts you if there is an update aswell and you can search the app in multiple places like: github, gitlab, fdroid and a few more. image
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Den Yellek 1 year ago
I have used obtanium but I did not understand the benifit. It seems from what you have said that the benifit is that you get it direct from the publisher of the app. Glad to learn why it might be preferred.
For me obtainium has multiple benefits: 1. You download it from the source (when available) 2. If 1 is not possible yeah can still download it from fdroid when available there. Offcourse it would be cool if obtainium adds searching Nostr apps from the zap.store but we can only hope right 😜
No. Obtainium allows downloading APKs from remote sites. It therefore has a huge catalog, but search UX is terrible imo. We index instead, so have a smaller catalog but better search. But we could add an auto index, or bring your APK functionality. And obviously we strive to have as many devs signing apps on nostr, while Obtainium likely won't.
Oke so to sum things up: Zap.store is also downloading the apk's from github, gitlab, fdroid etcetera? But has the advantage of having signed APK's through nostr? I'm trying to understand how it works so if I'm wrong please feel free to correct me.
That's cool might actually trade in obtainium for zap.store soon then πŸ˜‰
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