Alby

bitcoin

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lightning

**We just added transaction labeling in Alby Hub and I'm curious how other stackers handle this.**

The basic idea: instead of trying to reconstruct payment context later, you can label transactions when they happen. For example: expense, transfer, sales receipt, account/category, counterparty, memo, invoice period, etc. Then exports become much easier to use in tools like QuickBooks or whatever accounting setup you use.

**Short write-up here:**
[https://getalby.com/blog/transaction-labeling-in-alby-hub](https://getalby.com/blog/transaction-labeling-in-alby-hub)

The reason I'm asking: bookkeeping for bitcoin/lightning payments can get annoying fast, especially if you have lots of small transactions. Privacy is great, but it also means you don't automatically get the structured metadata that banks/payment processors often give you.

**A few questions for people here:**

1. How much time do you spend on bookkeeping for bitcoin payments?
2. Is tax and accounting reporting still mostly manual for you?
3. Would labeling transactions at the wallet or node level help?
4. If you've tried this in Alby Hub, what would make it better?

Would love your feedback, especially from anyone using bitcoin for business payments, donations, invoices, or medium to high-volume payment activity (e.g. zaps or V4V).

Would transaction labels make bitcoin bookkeeping & tax reporting less painful?

**We just published a guide on connecting OpenClaw to any bitcoin lightning wallet:**

[https://getalby.com/blog/bitcoin-payments-in-openclaw-the-fast-and-secure-way](https://getalby.com/blog/bitcoin-payments-in-openclaw-the-fast-and-secure-way)

The idea is simple: as AI agents move from chatting to actually doing things, they eventually hit the payment wall.

If an agent needs to call a paid API, buy data, settle a invoice, or purchase cloud credits, it needs a way to pay programmatically. Ideally with user-defined permissions and budgets.

**With the Alby Payments Skill an agent can:**

* check wallet balances
* send lightning payments
* pay invoices after confirmation
* use pay-per-call services without subscriptions. Find them on [https://402index.io/](https://402index.io/).
* operate with a limited wallet connection instead of full custody

**For OpenClaw, the setup is basically:**

1. Create an NWC connection from Alby Hub or another NWC-enabled wallet
2. Give OpenClaw the Alby Payments Skill instructions (Get the ready-to-use prompt from the article.)
3. Let the agent pay lightning invoices with your approval

**I'm curious what people here are actually using today:**

* Which AI agent are you using most right now? Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Goose, Cursor, something else?
* What bitcoin/lightning integrations or instructions should we create next?
* What would you *actually* trust an agent to pay for?

We added bitcoin payments to OpenClaw — which agent should be next?

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# New Alby Hub 1.22 release is out!

⚡ Core Lightning support
🔗 On-chain Wallet mode!
🤖 AI & Agents page
🏷️ Custom transaction labels
🔌 Redesigned setting app connection budget & expiration UX
🎨 Improved settings page design

![](https://m.stacker.news/141674)

## Core Lightning support

You can now use your existing CLN node with Alby Hub and use it in new ways — connect to dozens of NWC apps. You stay in control by deciding what permissions apps get, how much they can spend & when does the connection expire.

![](https://m.stacker.news/141675)

## On-chain Wallet

Alby Hub now becomes a proper on-chain wallet! Switch between lightning and on-chain with one click and easily send & receive on-chain. This is just the beginning of making Alby Hub full-fledged on-chain wallet, so expect more! 🤓

![](https://m.stacker.news/141677)

## AI & Agents page

A dedicated page for all-things agenting payments. Learn what can your AI agents do with Alby Hub & how to connect to the agent of your choice. Let your agents send & receive bitcoin, pay for services, automate your node management or build bitcoin apps.

![](https://m.stacker.news/141678)

## Custom transaction labels

Need to include your bitcoin activity in accounting? Or just want to have a better clarity on your spending? You can add custom labels to your transactions — just click on a transaction and add as many labels as you need.

![](https://m.stacker.news/141679)

## Improved app connections & settings

We’re constantly improving Alby Hub for a smoother experience. In this release, we made app connection UX much cleaner with a nicer seperation of budgeting and expiration options. Settings also got some love, including a neat themes preview

![](https://m.stacker.news/141680)

This release is dedicated to Mark Horowitz — the creator of first PGP key server, which was a crucial step for encrypted email communication.

Alby Hub is open source. View the [full release notes on GitHub](https://github.com/getAlby/hub/releases) and join in with a contribution If you like.

Alby Hub v1.22.2 Marc Horowitz — CLN support, on-chain wallet, AI & agents

# **Introducing Alby Hub Skill**

Self-custodial, native lightning node for agents is here

![](https://m.stacker.news/140409)

## Alby Hub Skill let's your agents:

* Help you setup Alby Hub for you
* Transact with lightning and on-chain
* Open new channels
* Create conditional automations for transactions, channels and app connections
* Create subwallets for different purposes
  ...and of course, connect to any NWC apps with desired budgeting per connection!

You can for example setup a monthly subscription for a VPN at 
LNVPS or for tokens at PPQ — cancel any time, just by asking your agent!

***

Give your Claude, Codex, OpenClaw or Hermes an Alby Hub with one single prompt:

"Install this skill as a custom skill: [https://getalby.com/hub/SKILL.md](https://getalby.com/hub/SKILL.md)"

And checkout [Alby Hub skill repo here](https://github.com/getAlby/hub-skill)

Introducing Alby Hub Skill — agentic control for Alby Hub

tutorials

How to Write AI Prompts to Build Usable Bitcoin Lightning Apps

You basically can use stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies to top up your Alby Hub by swapping them to bitcoin. You still only hold bitcoin. 

You could do that (swapping to BTC) before and you can do that with any other bitcoin wallet.

Agentic Commerce: A Guide to L402, X402, and MPP

How Pull That Up Jamie uses the Alby Bitcoin Payments Skill

Build and test bitcoin payments in minutes — with zero-setup, one-click test wallets, real Lightning payment flows and ready-to-use code examples.

No setup. No nodes. No channels.
Just start building on lightning ⚡

![](https://m.stacker.news/128730)

[Alby Sandbox](https://sandbox.albylabs.com) lets you test real payment scenarios such as:

• Invoice payments
• Invoice status lookup
• Lightning Addresses
• Fiat conversion
• LNURL-Verify
• Payment notifications
• Subscriptions
• Hold invoices
• Payment splitting (prisms)
• Proof of payment
• Payment forwarding
• Wrapped invoices

All with live visualizations, logs, balance charts and copy-paste code 🤩

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🤖 Alby Sandbox itself was entirely built using the [Alby Agent Skill](https://github.com/getAlby/alby-agent-skill).

All 13 payment scenarios were generated via AI prompts — proving you can use Alby Agent Skill to build real bitcoin-enabled products.

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Ready to give it a try?

Launch Alby Sandbox and test your first Lightning payment flows in under a minute

👉 https://sandbox.albylabs.com

Introducing Alby Sandbox

bitcoin_Mining

How to earn Bitcoin Mining rewards from NiceHash with Alby Hub

How to earn Bitcoin Mining rewards from Ocean with Alby Hub

It works only with the Alby Hub embedded lightning node. CLN nodes cannot be connected to Alby Hub yet. 

It works only with the Alby Hub embedded lightning node. LND doesn't support BOLT12 offers yet.

Education

Learn how to add Bitcoin payments to WooCommerce quickly and easily with a single, user-friendly plugin.

It works with any NWC-enabled Bitcoin Lightning wallet.

How to Accept Bitcoin Payments on WooCommerce

A user-hosted, serverless signer architecture using Spark, Ark, and NWC to power self-custodial bitcoin wallets optimized for payments in 3rd-party apps.

Part 1 is available here: https://getalby.com/blog/modularizing-alby-hub