On Tuesday, Breez introduced its newest accomplice, Yopaki, a Mexican neobank. Yopaki has built-in with Breez’s free and open-source SDK, which allows its customers to have a non-custodial Lightning pockets with out having to run their very own Lightning node. (Extra on how this works right here.)
Earlier than persevering with, I’ve to say that I get a bit of bit jealous each time Breez makes such bulletins, as a result of they make me want that Breez may accomplice with neobanks or Bitcoin apps accessible to residents in New York State, like myself.
The factor is although, we will’t have good Lightning issues right here within the Empire State as a result of regulation in New York — a state that appears to nearly satisfaction itself on its soul-crushing ranges of crimson tape and forms — prohibits corporations from providing Lightning providers.
However anyway, the place was I?
⚡️Welcoming Yopaki to (Nodeless) Lightning ⚡️
We’re thrilled to announce @yopaki_ as our newest SDK accomplice. The bitcoin neobank is reimagining banking whereas sharing 🇲🇽 tradition with the world.
Powered by Breez SDK – Nodeless (@Liquid_BTC) 🚀
👇👇👇https://t.co/zJVq6X1EVZ
— Breez ⚡ (@Breez_Tech) November 12, 2024
Within the Bitcoin house, we continuously hear concerning the challenges Bitcoin faces in scaling and the way Lightning isn’t a ample resolution. Oddly sufficient, although, we by no means hear this criticism from Roy Sheinfeld, co-founder and CEO of Breez, as a result of he’s too busy constructing issues that show the Lightning naysayers incorrect.
Sheinfeld and the group at Breez, who’re on a mission to carry Lightning to each app, have been on a scorching streak with regards to serving to Lightning customers all over the world achieve entry to non-custodial Lightning providers. Earlier this 12 months, they introduced partnerships with Volt in Nigeria and Diamond Fingers in Japan.
We’re excited to announce the beta launch of Diamond Pockets, a self-custodial Lightning pockets that allows customers to earn sats by viewing advertisements.
It is also the primary self-custodial pockets from Japan, constructed utilizing the Breez SDK and its Greenlight implementation.
Demo video↓ pic.twitter.com/kpsgfh3RGZ
— Diamond Fingers💎🙌 (@DiamondHandsLN) October 1, 2024
Generally, once I’m alone, I lookup on the sky and say to myself, “Why, God, why do Nigerians, the Japanese and Mexicans get entry to such candy financial tech whereas my as soon as nice state — dwelling to a metropolis that refers to itself because the ‘monetary capital of the world,’ however sarcastically doesn’t permit its residents to make use of innovative Lightning providers — fades into obscurity?”
Whereas I by no means get a solution, I do take consolation in the truth that the likes of Sheinfeld and the group at Breez are on the market making certain that nodeless non-custodial Lightning wallets are proliferating, enabling individuals to extra simply use bitcoin because it was meant for use — peer-to-peer.
I look ahead to seeing Breez accomplice with much more apps and neobanks in 2025.
This text is a Take. Opinions expressed are completely the writer’s and don’t essentially mirror these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.