Make BTC mainnet deposits/withdraws simpler | ⚫ Alby Hub - 💡 Request a Feature

I understand you wish to preserve the traditional way to deal with a Node for receiving or spending sats via Lightning Network and eventually funding it via Deposit function via Mainnet, but in the other hand it may be simpler to the user to abstract these two operations, in and out, via Bitcoin mainnet.

So if an user has received a fair amount of sats via Lightning allow him/her to withdraw it more easily to a BTC mainnet wallet and automate all the necessary stuff to make that simpler instead of forcing it to do in and out via Lightning all the time and limited to channel sizes.

This is specially important for merchants or people who receive higher amounts via Lightning not have to worry about channel sizes.

Comments

FREDY

Oct 10, 2024

Hi roland

The point here is to avoid doing it via Lightning for larger amounts.

I guess the main point here is that for a self-custody solution as Alby Hub is that wouldn't work as described, only in a Alby hosted solution that does custody for the user where Alby could let choose how funds go in via either Lightning or Mainnet.

roland

Oct 8, 2024

Hi,

Currently you can manually use boltz.exchange. We were thinking of adding integrated swaps so you can swap funds from your lightning channels to an onchain address with a few clicks.

Would this help?

You can also manually close your channels, and then withdraw the onchain funds to another wallet.