# Alby Bitcoin Payments

> Use this tool when you need to integrate Bitcoin Lightning payments into your workflow, enabling seamless cryptocurrency transactions and wallet management for AI assistants. It solves problems such as processing invoices, checking balances, and converting fiat to cryptocurrency, with inputs including invoices and wallet connections, and outputs including payment confirmations and transaction lists. Ideal for use cases requiring automated Bitcoin payments, such as e-commerce or financial services, with support for multiple transport modes and deployment options.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/alby-bitcoin-payments  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alby-bitcoin-payments

## Description

This MCP server connects AI assistants to Bitcoin Lightning wallets through Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC), enabling seamless cryptocurrency payments and wallet management. Built by Alby using TypeScript with their Lightning SDK, it provides tools for creating and paying invoices, checking balances, listing transactions, converting fiat to sats, parsing Lightning addresses, and fetching L402-protected resources. The implementation supports multiple transport modes (STDIO, HTTP, SSE) and can run both locally and as a hosted service, making it valuable for AI assistants that need to handle Bitcoin payments, process Lightning invoices, or integrate cryptocurrency functionality into workflows.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.90
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/alby-bitcoin-payments)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/getalby/mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "alby-bitcoin-payments"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alby-bitcoin-payments` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alby-bitcoin-payments/pull`

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