0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Alby 15 Oct \ on: Investing sats I've earnt on SN - yeah this is ridiculous haha! AskSN
Hey man! Happy to see you excited about this journey and embracing value-4-value and... self custody!
After all, you gotta pay something for using the Lightning Network: either with your data & risk (custody) when using a third party, or with sats for the infrastructure and owning UTXOs - when noderunning on your own. Full sovereignty comes with some cost and effort, but with #AlbyHub we're trying to minimize it. It's not that big price, but unavoidable today - and if you run your own device, the amoung goes to cover onchaing fees and some fee charged by an LSP.
Make a decision yourself if it's worth it, we're happy to help!
Also, we're not sure if anyone but Fountain enables custodial wallet for podcasters today (?)
Alby is great, yes!
For anyone who want to earn serious sats I don't think it matters too much if the solutions you use to receive sats are self-custodial or not, as long as you can pull it onchain say once a week, or even through other payment gateways into fiat or goods.
It seems to me that its not possible to set up Alby desktop without opening a channel?
For now I've pulled what I had with Alby custodial into Phoenix, then onchain into Cake. Around 1100 sats in total, if I got the numbers right.
Ease of use and workflow is by far the most important with the focus I have!
Will probably get around to testing out Alby desktop for real once I decide that the whole project is going forward, I need to see it grow steadily until I invest what I have onchain now...
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