Breez, a new open source Lightning Network client

[kingonly]

For more information, see: https://github.com/breez/breezmobile

[DooMAD]

Read the whitepaper on the website, but I'm not sure where they think they're going with this.  It talks about supplying merchants with point-of-sale systems and users needing to give their physical address details to apply for a card to use it?  How is this ever getting off the ground?

[kingonly]

Read the whitepaper on the website, but I'm not sure where they think they're going with this.  It talks about supplying merchants with point-of-sale systems and users needing to give their physical address details to apply for a card to use it?  How is this ever getting off the ground?

Card is optional. Physical address is only used to send out the card.

[DooMAD]

Read the whitepaper on the website, but I'm not sure where they think they're going with this.  It talks about supplying merchants with point-of-sale systems and users needing to give their physical address details to apply for a card to use it?  How is this ever getting off the ground?

Card is optional. Physical address is only used to send out the card.

Okay then.  It initially seemed like a fair amount of infrastructure was needed for it to work.  But aside from the optional card, it's also a standard Lightning wallet which is compatible with other Lightning clients?  That part I can get behind.

[kingonly]

But aside from the optional card, it's also a standard Lightning wallet which is compatible with other Lightning clients?  That part I can get behind.

Definitely. The infrastructure is in place, we'll expose it better in the UI soon.
You can see all the todo items in the project's readme file.

[buwaytress]

Yeah, the one thing I haven't yet liked about clients is the need to switch over from existing preferred one. IF Breez somehow allowed you to keep using your client, say, Electrum, perhaps as a plugin, then absolutely. A Bitcoin-enabled debit card is also something a lot of people are looking for though, so if it is just that 1 thing that works, and works well, using LN itself and not just as another gateway to Visa/MC/similar... if that's what it is and I hope that's what it is - you've definitely got something going!