To realize the Lightning⚡ economy, it has to be easy for developers. Lightning as a Service (LaaS) lets anyone access
#Bitcoin
payments from any app thanks to the revolutionary Breez SDK. Now build 🔨🔨🔨
Read more here 👇
Today, we're thrilled to share that we just raised $4.5M round to accelerate Lightning as a Service (LaaS). Laas is our visionary new approach to bringing virtually instantaneous and frictionless
#bitcoin
payments to the global mainstream 🔥⚡
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The Breez SDK is an end-to-end, non-custodial, drop-in solution to add P2P Lightning ⚡ payments to your app:
✅ Multi-app support
✅ Multi-device support
✅ Integrated watchtower
✅ Seamless backup
✅ LNURL functionality
✅ Fiat on/off-ramps
✅ Built-in LSP
✅ Open-source
✅
Here's why integrating
#bitcoin
into the internet with Lightning ⚡ is better than replicating the internet over the Lightning Network. Read all about Lightning Expansionism vs. The Satoshi Superhighway here 👇
Huge day for Breez & Lightning 🥳🍾 Breez release candidate is here:
💥Instant bootstrap💥On-the-fly channel creation💥Zero-conf channels💥MPP send💥Zero channel reserve💥Limit raise💥Home screen revamped
Read all about it and help spread the word 📣👇:
As Lightning ⚡️ matures, finer solutions emerge that solve more specific problems. This specialization is a result and driver of growth. Read our latest post here or continue to read this thread for the tl;dr 👇
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Breez is not just a Lightning wallet. Breez is not just a podcast app. Breez is not just a Lightning Point-of-Sale. We're building a platform for a new p2p economy. Come and join us.
Bringing Lightning to the BitBoxApp! ⚡️
We are exploring seamless, non-custodial Lightning payments directly within the BitBoxApp by partnering with
@Breez_Tech
.
Watch us pay a
@bitrefill
lightning invoice from within our BitBoxApp prototype:
Finland 🇫🇮 is adopting
#bitcoin
and Lightning ⚡ one business at a time thanks to LN-Kassa, a special Lightning consultancy and Breez Point-of-Sale. Read more here in our latest
#LightningInTheWild
👇
Breez is revolutionizing Lightning⚡You can now add Lightning payments to your app in minutes. It's trustless, effortless and frictionless. Watch
@WitDeJesse
shows how easy it is to get started with the Breez SDK 👇
Thanks so much
@cuboplus
for hosting us!
Lightning is going to change the world. Our new in-app podcast player is launching Podcasting 2.0. Find, subscribe & listen to your favorites, pay & tip the creators directly, and bury fiat. This is just a glimpse into the future of the Lightning economy.
Breez does many things; now we want to do anything. Introducing a fresh Breez with Greenlight remote nodes:
Super stoked to announce our partnership with
@Blockstream
to build next-gen
#Lightning
apps 🤘💥⚡
Introducing FiatLink: a standard interface between Lightning and fiat to make onboarding easier than ever. Read more here 👇
Huge thanks to our partners
@PocketBitcoin
@relai_app
🙏❤️
🚀 Ready to build on Bitcoin?
🔥 Integrate Lightning payments with just a few lines of code - streaming payments, low fees, no middlemen!
👇Don't miss out - click below to secure your spot!
Things will never be the same? Some will be better. The global economy will need rebuilding.
#Bitcoin
&
#Lightning
are strong pillars. Breez is working to help merchants and all users bounce back on the day after tomorrow. Here’s our latest big step:
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Lightning ⚡ has passed the proof of concept, and it's ready for the next leap. Lightning as a Service (LaaS) is how the leap will happen. LFG! Read more about here:
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We've started a new blog series called⚡️Lightning in the Wild⚡️ to showcase how people are using Lightning & Breez IRL. This first post shows how
@VictoriaKayak
from BC got their feet wet with
#bitcoin
& Lightning 🛶🔥
Breez is reimagining how Lightning ⚡ could work with a drop-in non-custodial SDK that would allow any company to easily integrate P2P payments and give users access to their bitcoin from any device or app.
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The challenge Lightning ⚡ faces today is about liquidity, not connectivity. Learn how we can overcome it and realize Lightning's potential in our latest article 👇
Things you can now do with Breez:
⚡️Send sats
⚡️Receive sats
⚡️Run a Lightning store
⚡️***Play (and pay for) podcasts***
⚡️Conquer the galaxy (in development)
We're building a platform for the Lightning economy. Try it out on iOS now, Android is rolling out...
Inbound liquidity is what makes bitcoins flow on the Lightning Network. Its scarcity feeds the Lightning economy. Its existence guarantees the network's integrity. We love it and here’s why👇
Yesterday we shared some info about offline payments in Lightning ⚡ Here's a demo recorded by our own
@Nackoo2000
where he receives some sats to he's non-custodial Lightning app (a new Breez app yet to be released) via LNURL-Pay.
It's using the Breez SDK 🔥 Read more here 👇
.
@HRF
has selected Breez to receive 0.6587 BTC as a grant to develop new, privacy-enhancing features. We couldn’t be more grateful or more excited to get started 🙏💪💥⚡
With this Lightning ⚡ SDK, companies can create value for users more quickly without worrying about their Lightning infrastructure, liquidity management, or on-chain interoperability. Interested? Become a design partner:
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"wen lightning?"
Well, today.
We've partnered with
@Breez_Tech
to bring ultra-fast and cheap transactions to your Relai app. ⚡️
Sign up for the beta now:
Lightning will thrive wherever disintermediation, low transaction cost, instantaneous settlement, and censorship resistance are advantages. Here are some use cases on Lightning’s road to mass adoption 👇
This just happened 👊
lnd nodes can now intercept HTLC forward events to override the default routing behavior.
This opens up a range of possibilities for LSPs including on-the-fly channel creation. Thanks
@joostjgr
@roasbeef
for all your help with this!
Our understanding of AOPP is it that is some sort of API that wallet developers can incorporate that will automatically 'prove' ownership of a non custodial wallet to the exchange where the user is withdrawing from.
Here is why Samourai Wallet won't include support for AOPP
Sooo easy to redeem
@Azteco_
vouchers using Breez⚡💥
Pro tip: you even don't have to print and scan, just take a screenshot. Breez knows to how to read a QR from a selected image - so cool 😎
Sup Breezers? An amazing product update is headed your way ⚡
🔥 Support NFC in Point-of-Sale checkout
🔥 New 'My Top Podcasts' screen
🔥
@wavlake
to our Apps
Drill down: with the NFC checkout, you can now use
@CoinCorner
's Bolt Card in Breez POS:
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I've just paid sat with my custom NFC card (linked to
@lnbits
) and with my BoltCard by
@CoinCorner
using a new beta of
@Breez_Tech
and it works like a charm!
The POS UI uses the LNURL-withdrawPOS I explained here: .
Congrats
@therealkingonly
and the team!
Orange pilling 🟠 has taken us as far as it can. Leveraging bitcoin's strengths to improve the UX of new and existing apps is the way forward 🚀 Read more here 👇
.
@Okcoin
any reason you are not supporting Breez invoices? Breez uses standard bolt11 invoices and Lightning is supposed to be an open network...
This is very frustrating for our users. Do you only send to whitelisted nodes?
#LightningInTheWild
is a blog series that investigates how people are using Lightning ⚡️ IRL and describe the experience in their own words. In this edition, we're looking at
#FromTheJump
podcast, and how
@OKIN_17
is using the
#V4V
to monetize his content:
2019 is almost over. For those of us working on Lightning, the pace of change has been so fast that it’s gone by in the blink of an eye, just like a … yes, a lightning bolt ⚡️⚡️⚡️.
Read our 2019 summary here 👇:
Welcome
@getSpendl
, the latest addition to Breez's marketplace 💥
With Spendl, you can top up a virtual credit card with Lightning and spend your bitcoin everywhere ⚡💪
Hey Breezers ⚡ A new update is heading your way:
* Update Neutrino to support upcoming Taproot activation
* Per-episode splits support in podcasts
* Reduced encryption key to 12 words
* Improved pay-before-sync
* EUR symbol position determined by locale
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Breez is proud to deliver the first Lightning client with a built-in reverse Submarine Swaps service powered by
@Boltzhq
. This is another step towards a real P2P Lightning economy, read more here 👇
Did you know you can receive Lightning ⚡ payments via mobile notifications 📲 using the Breez SDK even if the app isn't running? Try it now!
More information here:
Merchants, want to use accept
@ln_strike
payments?Try Breez’s Point-of-Sale and create a Lightning cash register with the slide of a finger. It's just that easy ⚡⚡⚡
Using Strike + Breez PoS customers can seamlessly pay you Bitcoin straight from their bank accounts. Thanks to Breez and the lightning network these payments settle instantly without confirmation. Good UX is NOW. It's happening.
.
@Okcoin
any reason you are not supporting Breez invoices? Breez uses standard bolt11 invoices and Lightning is supposed to be an open network...
This is very frustrating for our users. Do you only send to whitelisted nodes?
NEW: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has grown to some 10,000 active nodes, nearly doubling from this time last year.
The network’s total capacity is now $69 million.
@AsILayHodling
reports
In our efforts to jumpstart the Lightning economy, it's easy to focus on the customers and forget the merchants.
@OpenNodeCo
,
@BtcpayServer
, and
@Breez_Tech
POS are practical options to on-board all types of merchants to Lightning ⚡️ Read more here 👇
Hey Breezers 🙃 Starting 2021 strong with another product update 💪
💥 Added
@LNMarkets
to Breez's marketplace
💥 Send to BTC Address now excludes mining fees unless 'Use All Funds' is checked
💥 On-chain sync and backup optimizations
💥 Bug fixes
Package is rolling out now...
Sup Breezers? A new update is rolling out 💪:
🔥 Support sending to a Lightning address via Send> Paste (cc:
@andreneves
)
🔥 Long press the Boost button to send a Boostagram (cc:
@adamcurry
@PodcastindexOrg
)
🔥 Added links support to the QR scanner (cc:
@SamSamskies
)
Enjoy ⚡⚡⚡
@cryptocorda
@matt_odell
@TFTC21
@MartyBent
@Breez_Tech
Right, so I guess the question is for what use case is someone likely to use BTC as a MoE today with non-trivial frequency, that can accept an LN transfer? Or what's on the horizon in that regard?
.
@AdoptingBTC
was one for the books.
@nicolasburtey
had a vision, didn't give up, dealt with FUD and Covid to bring this incredible week to life 👏👏👏
It was executed down to the t, huge s/o to
@1971Bubble
@_pretyflaco
& people behind the scene lead by superwoman
@NuraElb
😍🙏
The Breez SDK ⚡ is:
🔥 End-to-end: Lightning, built-in LSP and on-chain interop
🔥 Frictionless: no KYC is required
🔥 Effortless: integrate w/ a few lines of code
🔥 Trustless: non-custodial infrastructure.
🔥 Interoperable: multiple apps can interact with the same node
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Hey Breezers! We've got a great product update for you guys ⚡️⚡️⚡️:
* 'Remove Funds' now uses Boltz reverse Submarine Swap service
* Better support for hodl invoices
* Buy bitcoin using credit card is now available in the US (via MoonPay)
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Sup Breezers 🤙
A great new update is headed your way 💥
We know you've been waiting for these:
⚡ Added 30+ new fiat currencies
⚡ Support for LNURL-Auth
Package is rolling out now...
Breez isn't just a wallet, it's a gateway to the world of Lightning⚡. Our marketplace is the simplest way to interact with various Lightning apps, including
@bitrefill
,
@LN_Pizza
,
@FixedFloat
,
@GraafOne
,
@LNRoulette
and our latest addition
@Boltzhq
⚡
Wanna swap? Check it out 👇
Exciting news - welcoming
@MiyaharaUmi
to the Breez team!
We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the Breez family - Umi Miyahara, who will be our Business Development Lead. Umi's arrival has injected a surge of enthusiasm into our team.
Umi brings a wealth of
Caribbean money is broken, so
@PoleVaultDream
is building Flash to reinvent it with a hybrid Lightning ⚡ payment app based on the Breez SDK to orange-pill an entire region 💊 Read more here 👇
Spontaneous payments are sooo cool ⚡⚡⚡
Breez now supports sending payment to lnd nodes running with --accept-key-send simply by pasting the dest node ID (cc
@joostjgr
@alexbosworth
)!
In this video, we're sending
@negrunch
250 sats, check it out 👇
Happy birthday to our dear friend, the one and only, the Podfather
@adamcurry
🎉🎂
We're blessed to be working together, wishing you nothing but love and happiness ❤️
Give
#Bitcoin
to your kids:
"Initially he used to spend most of what he got as soon as he got it, but as the price of bitcoin continued to rise, those old £10 Fortnite skins he’d bought with his sats suddenly seemed very expensive purchases! He spends less and saves more now."
Lightning development update:
One of the many benefits of Lightning in the BitBoxApp is that you can receive a transaction on your desktop and spend it on your smartphone (and vice versa)!
Watch how the received transaction immediately shows up in both BitBoxApps:
Hey Breezers 😎 We've got a big product update for you with some great new features ⚡⚡⚡:
* Lightning fast on-boarding: initialize Neutrino from last available checkpoint.
* Support lnurl-withdraw (S/O to
@fiatjaf
🤘).
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