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Two of my channels are offline, presumably because of something on my partners' ends, which obviously reduces my total spending balance.

I'm not sure why Alby Go is still showing the full amount as spendable. My recollection is that on other occasions when I had channels offline, Alby Go reflected the reduced balance but maybe I'm just remembering that wrong.

FYI, recently my Alby Go wallet has been consistently displaying a lower balance than my Zeus wallet connected to the same node.

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Can you tell which one is correct?

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Yes, Zeus is accurate, and Alby Go consistently gives me a lower number. Until recently the two wallets would always have identical balances.

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527 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 26 Jul

The balance could be:

  1. cached on Alby Go and hasn't been update in awhile
  2. calculated differently in each app

I'd guess it's (2). NWC can be used to call get_balance on the hub, but the spec is vague about whether that balance is the total amount or the available amount. Some providers also return max_amount which communicates the remaining spending budget. Without reading the Alby Go & Hub source code, I couldn't tell which is which, but I'd guess Alby Hub reports the total amount via NWC but the hub itself has the accurate amount because it itself doesn't use NWC.

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Makes sense

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