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🚀 ZapPlanner, your scheduler for recurring #Bitcoin Lightning payments, just got a big upgrade!

✅ Fully automated recurring payments — no manual work 🆕 Custom scheduling 🆕 More robust input validation

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ZapPlanner is built on

so you can easily schedule recurring bitcoin payments with almost any lightning wallet. Perfect for continually supporting your favorite #V4V creators. ⚡

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With the added cron support, you can now set flexible schedules: 🗓️ First day of every month at midnight UTC 🕘 Every Monday at 9:00 AM UTC More power for real-world recurring payment needs.

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💛 We love open source! This update was made possible by

(community contributor) and

from the nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm team.

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Connect your own lightning wallet and give ZapPlanner a try : https://zapplanner.albylabs.com

Last week, the Alby team got together to hack on what later may become part of our products 👇

1️⃣ Sparky Hub - a Spark-based and NWC-enabled bitcoin wallet 2️⃣ Auto-swaps for conveniently transferring funds between your lightning and on-chain balances in Alby Hub 3️⃣ A simple Value-for-Value RSS feed reader

Here is how it went: https://blog.getalby.com/alby-hackdays-sparky-hub-auto-swaps-more/

1️⃣ Sparky Hub is a

-enabled bitcoin wallet built on Spark using the Alby JS SDK and NWC relay. Connect with Alby Go, Alby Extension, or any NWC app. No channels required.

2️⃣ Auto-swaps: Set a threshold and let Alby Hub handle swaps from lightning to on-chain automatically. No more worrying about receiving capacity.

3️⃣ #V4V for everything, not just podcasts! A simple reader that pulls RSS feeds and lets you support creators via #BitcoinConnect. Vibe-coded in 30 mins without any line of code.

🎶 tip the artists' straight to node, Bitcoin flows, love-music mode, zaps light up their hearts, it's a #v4v ode. 🎶