Roland Bewick

Roland Bewick is a core developer at Alby, where he leads development of Alby Hub—an open-source, self-custodial Lightning node that lets users connect to any application through Nostr Wallet Connect. Originally from New Zealand and currently based in Thailand, Roland started at Alby in early 2023 after winning the Legends of Lightning hackathon with Lightsats, a Bitcoin onboarding tool. He also created Bitcoin Connect and recently built the first documented autonomous agent onboarding system using Bitcoin Lightning for machine-to-machine payments.