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Add Alby Hub wallet#4733

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@reneaaron reneaaron commented May 19, 2026

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Adds Alby Hub, listed under desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux).

About the wallet

Alby Hub is a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for individuals, developers, and businesses. It includes an embedded Lightning node (LDK), supports on-chain send and receive, and connects apps, services, and AI agents through Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47). The same app runs on desktop or self-hosted on a server.

Classification

  • Level: 2
  • Platform: desktop (windows, mac, linux)
  • Features: bech32, lightning, segwit

Scoring rationale

Criterion Score Reason
Control good Users hold the seed and have full custody
Validation fail (centralized) Default chain source is a single Alby-operated Esplora server (electrs.getalbypro.com). The endpoint is user-configurable to any Esplora/Electrum/Bitcoind RPC, but bitcoin.org grades default behavior.
Transparency acceptable Open source, releases tagged on GitHub
Environment caution Runs on general-purpose computers, no 2FA
Privacy acceptable Address rotation; discloses to central chain source; no Tor support today
Fees good Full control over on-chain fees

Checklist against the wallet criteria

  • Released > 3 months ago
  • Source public, releases tagged
  • Public team / developer identities
  • HTTPS on albyhub.com, HTTP 308 → HTTPS
  • Bug reporting via GitHub Issues, linked from the site
  • Address rotation, deterministic ECDSA, user-controlled keys
  • Wallet backup + seed recovery supported
  • Screenshot 250×350 PNG, optipng -o7 applied
  • Icon 144×144 PNG, optipng -o7 applied
  • Description under 320 characters
  • albyhub.com HSTS currently has `max-age=31536000` but is missing `includeSubDomains; preload`. Binaries are distributed via GitHub Releases (already HSTS-preloaded), so the executable transport is protected — we'll harden the landing-page header as a follow-up.

@reneaaron reneaaron marked this pull request as ready for review May 19, 2026 13:06
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Thanks for your submission! Extra thanks for reviewing all the listing criteria so thoroughly. Just wanted to let you know that there's a bit of a review backlog currently and thank you for your understanding.

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