On Tuesday, Breez introduced its newest associate, Yopaki, a Mexican neobank. Yopaki has built-in with Breez’s free and open-source SDK, which permits its customers to have a non-custodial Lightning pockets with out having to run their very own Lightning node. (Extra on how this works here.)
Earlier than persevering with, I’ve to say that I get slightly bit jealous at any time when Breez makes such bulletins, as a result of they make me want that Breez may associate 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 paperwork — prohibits corporations from providing Lightning companies.
However anyway, the place was I?
⚡️Welcoming Yopaki to (Nodeless) Lightning ⚡️
We're thrilled to announce @yopaki_ as our newest SDK associate. The bitcoin neobank is reimagining banking whereas sharing 🇲🇽 tradition with the world.
Powered by Breez SDK – Nodeless (@Liquid_BTC) 🚀
— Breez ⚡ (@Breez_Tech) November 12, 2024
Within the Bitcoin area, we regularly hear in regards to the challenges Bitcoin faces in scaling and the way Lightning isn’t a ample resolution. Oddly sufficient, although, we by no means hear this grievance from Roy Sheinfeld, co-founder and CEO of Breez, as a result of he’s too busy constructing issues that show the Lightning naysayers unsuitable.
Sheinfeld and the group at Breez, who’re on a mission to bring Lightning to every app, have been on a sizzling streak with regards to serving to Lightning customers around the globe achieve entry to non-custodial Lightning companies. Earlier this yr, they introduced partnerships with Volt in Nigeria and Diamond Hands 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 adverts.
It's additionally the primary self-custodial pockets from Japan, constructed utilizing the Breez SDK and its Greenlight implementation.
Demo video↓ pic.twitter.com/kpsgfh3RGZ
— Diamond Arms💎🙌 (@DiamondHandsLN) October 1, 2024
Typically, 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 — house to a metropolis that refers to itself because the ‘monetary capital of the world,’ however mockingly doesn’t enable its residents to make use of leading edge Lightning companies — 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 guaranteeing that nodeless non-custodial Lightning wallets are proliferating, enabling folks to extra simply use bitcoin because it was supposed for use — peer-to-peer.
I sit up for seeing Breez associate with much more apps and neobanks in 2025.
This text is a Take. Opinions expressed are totally the creator’s and don’t essentially replicate these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.
