On Tuesday, breeze announced his latest partner, Yopaka Mexican neobank. Yopaki has been integrated with the free and open source Breez. SDKwhich allows its users to have a non-custodial Lightning wallet without having to run their own Lightning node. (More on how this works here.)
Before I continue, I have to say that I get a little jealous every time Breez makes these kinds of announcements, because they make me wish Breez could partner with neobanks or Bitcoin apps accessible to New York State residents like me.
The thing is, though, we can’t have good Lightning stuff here in the Empire State because regulation in New York, a state that almost seems to pride itself on its crushing levels of bureaucracy and bureaucracy, prohibits companies from offering Lightning services. .
But anyway, where was he?
⚡️Welcoming Yopaki to (Nodeless) Lightning ⚡️
We are delighted to announce @yopaki_ as our latest SDK partner. The bitcoin neobank is reinventing banking while sharing 🇲🇽 culture with the world.
Powered by Breez SDK – Nodeless (@Liquid_BTC) 🚀
– Breeze ⚡ (@Breez_Tech) November 12, 2024
In the Bitcoin space, we frequently hear about the challenges Bitcoin faces when it comes to scaling and how Lightning is not a sufficient solution. However, strange as it may seem, we never heard this complaint from Roy Sheinfeldco-founder and CEO of Breez, because he’s too busy building things to prove Lightning’s detractors wrong.
Sheinfeld and the Breez team, who are on a mission to bring Lightning to every app, have been on a roll when it comes to helping Lightning users around the world get access to non-custodial Lightning services. Earlier this year, they announced partnerships with I was in Nigeria and diamond hands in Japan.
We are excited to announce the beta version of Diamond Wallet, a self-custodial Lightning wallet that allows users to earn sats by watching ads.
It is also Japan’s first self-custodial wallet, built using the Breez SDK and its Greenlight implementation.
Demo video↓ pic.twitter.com/kpsgfh3RGZ
– Diamond Hands💎🙌 (@DiamondHandsLN) October 1, 2024
Sometimes when I’m alone I look up at the sky and say to myself, “Why, God, why do Nigerians, Japanese, and Mexicans have access to such interesting monetary technology, while my once great state, Home to a city that refers to itself as the ‘financial capital of the world’, but ironically does not allow its residents to use cutting-edge Lightning services – fading into obscurity?
While I never get an answer, I take solace in the fact that people like Sheinfeld and the Breez team are out there ensuring that nodeless, non-custodial Lightning wallets are proliferating, allowing people to more easily use bitcoin as it was. provided. be used – peer-to-peer.
I look forward to seeing Breez partner with even more apps and neobanks in 2025.
This article is a Carry. The opinions expressed are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
