Adding Lightning to Crypto Is a Piece of Cake with the Breez SDK
Lightning is indisputably bitcoin. It’s the best way to use bitcoin as a currency, and it’s bitcoin’s best chance to go mainstream. But unlike bitcoin, Lightning has been relatively sheltered from the broader crypto world through lack of contact. Technical and largely cognitive barriers have kept them separate. In that sense, Lightning has almost worked as a closed beta used by a tight community of early adopters.
This is a massive opportunity passing us by. Introducing Lightning to the broader world of crypto will help more users interface with Bitcoin, and Lightning is the tech that can put the currency into “cryptocurrency.” Bringing crypto and Lightning together is an inevitable step on the way to mainstreaming Bitcoin. So what’s holding us all back?
If technical and cognitive barriers are what’s keeping them apart, then what we need is proof that they can and do work well together. This does not require adding other tokens to Lightning. It would be enough to show that bitcoin over Lightning is a valuable complement to a multicoin wallet.
