Alby announced a new partnership with RSS.com. A podcasting platform that manages the hosting, distribution, analytics, and monetization of podcasts. RSS.com becomes the first podcast hosting company in the world to enable Value 4 Value payments.
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Alby! Its been buzzing around SN and BT for what seems like a couple months now. But it wasn't until the news this week that it got our attention. Alby is helping bring RSS.com (the podcast distribution company/not the protocol) into the world of Value 4 Value by enabling Bitcoin payment streaming via the Lightning Network. The integration is relatively simple it allows RSS.com podcasters to receive Bitcoin payments, create a Bitcoin Lightning wallet through Alby, and view their balance directly from their dashboards.
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😏 Lets get the obvious out of the way
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- 🧤 Yes its custodial for RSS.com users
- 🧚 NOT many RSS.com users to onboard to ⚡️
None of this matters. This is just the first one to fall in a series of podcast distributors that should enable podcasting 2.0 The more interesting tell is the fact that RSS.com is a company known for always chasing the "next" thing. Which is good sign if your building on the Lightning network.
🐝 So...is Alby taking off?
Good Morning.
— Alby 🐝 (@getAlby) July 27, 2022
More than 2000 people have now installed Alby's browser extension.
That is over 2000 people sending #bitcoin over the #LightningNetwork seamlessly.
Thank you for choosing Alby 🧡 pic.twitter.com/9cJscNM8dB
It seems, traction has been slow but the amount of work on the Github is continuing and they have already started to unleash the bounties.
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"Write Once Run on Any Browser," at least that is the proposed idea behind Web Extension starteravailable to any dev looking to create. WebLN is currently being used by a handful of projects in the space, Stacker.News, Bitrefill, LNMarkets, kwh to name a few. WebLN provides a programmatic, permissioned interface for letting applications ask users to send payments, generate invoices to receive payments, and much more.
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You may be interested in using WebLN if you...
- Have an application that accepts or makes Lightning payments to users
- Want to have decentralized identity and authentication in your application
- Are working on a Lightning node wallet, and want to make it easier for your users to interact with Lightning web apps
⚡️Why is Alby a different ⚡️ experience for the browser?
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Alby is an extension that provides good enough ⚡️ integration for websites (for payments and authentication flows.) It gets the job done where other extensions couldn't and also gets rid of any complication in an already complicated ⚡️ world.
The goal is to write a minimal web extension to allow browsers to interact with the Lightning Network programmatically. It focuses on the web-payments process and does not try to be a full node UI with advanced channel-management or similar features.
When signing up with Alby for the first time. Alby asks if you would like to connect to a different node implementation. It supports both custodial and non-custodial setups.
Kinda 🔥🔥🔥
👀 ⚡️Features
- Custom budgets/allowances for websites to allow payment streams/auto-payments
- Multiple accounts and support for different node backends (lnd, etc.)
- Full WebLN send and receive payment flows (getInfo, sendPayment, fixed makeInvoice support)
- LNURL-pay support
- LNURL-auth support
- Payment history with additional website metadata
- LNURL-withdraw support
- WebLN signMessage, verifyMessage support
- WebLN dynamic makeInvoice support
- Keysend
- Lsat support
Alby has Bounties 🛠 💰
Alby is offering bounties for the challenges listed below. They have bounties for coding and non-coding related topics.
If you want to:
- start working on a bounty
- ask about the status of a bounty
- propose a new bounty
- or if you need help
reach out to [email protected] or join our Community Slack Channel