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Alby locked my funds, and I can't get it out. Something like 39k sats. Complete trash service. Never using Alby/custodial systems again, nothing but garbage in my experience.

I assume this is email? How does Alby know what you are being sent to be able to notify you like this?

I put alby Nsec extension on Firefox and it never worked for some reason. Uninstalled and now I can’t login to Primal using that browser anymore 😔

I don’t think anyone who owns their own node will let all the channels be full. And yes I’m agreeing that having your own node is for nerds. Not everyone. I’m luckily on of the 17.000 nerds out there having my own node. 🤓

For everyone else walletofsatoshi or Aqua work just fine 😊

Seems like it would be a good idea for them to add an auto rebalance feature to keep a desired amount of inbound liquidity on each channel. Idk. I've run 5 lightning nodes in the past, and currently just use @Rizful.com and am happy with it. I use LN for small payments, I don't particularly care if someone else fascilitates the transactions for me.

What's your favorite lightning wallet?

Early adaptation flashing signal. A few years from now we’ll laugh about the old days when using lightning meant actively managing channel liquidity.

With peace and love this is a great advertisement for Phoenix or Ark or Liquid swaps.

Why not follow the Pro-Tip at the bottom of the notice? Enable Auto-Swaps and never miss a payment again?

Just closed my Alby hub. Only a waste of sats.

That's why the ⚡ Lightning Goats ⚡ run core lightning with clboss, sling, and our own fee setting, rebalancing plugin to coordinate it all. It works, and our node is even becoming profitable over time. https://github.com/santyr/cl_revenue_ops

Slowly Bitcoiners are waking up that Lightning sucks big time :) View quoted note →

Wouldn't it be easier to just use the fountain wallet and above a certain amount take off the table into self custody?

There should be an option to send payment on chain for situations like this. Honestly if it was a payment larger than my inbound liquidity I would prefer it on chain...

This email is triggered when someone requests a BOLT11 invoice from your Hub that exceeds your total receiving capacity. However, only the payer knows whether the payment intent is genuine. Do you typically receive payments with an amount higher than your current receiving capacity?

Alby Hub? FTD (Far Too Difficult)

you are right, running a lightning node is very difficult! its nothing for the average bitcoin guy, but instead you can use lightning wallets which provide you with just one channel could be automated to adjust the cap. of the channel like phoenix is doing it. but still its a little harder tool then a blink or WoS

Whenever you're ready for permissionless, private, practical and simple payments, #Monero is ready for you.

Just do a normal transaction in monero.

It literally takes 1 confirmation to buy inbound liquidity.

Yeah it's pretty tragic, private non custodial lightning is DOA. Only viable options are LSP based wallets like Phoenix with JIT 0conf channels which open new channels when you recieve large payments. Costs a lot in fees though and you have minimal privacy from ACINQ. Its that or your risk loss of funds, censorship, freezing etc. with custodial solutions. All have horrible privacy other than ecash too.

Get a bigger channel, 99.99% of people will be fine with default 1M that is what AH prompts people for. You could have as easily gotten 10-20M and swap out to on chain if you get this much sent to you.