ahhhh, this is a big one.

Just want to keep everybody updated on our progress and our roadmap.

Hey everyone, it’s been a couple weeks since we’ve updated this blog SO we’re going to do it now. We promise that we have been busy making snapCard the best product that it can be!

Before I get started with snapCard updates, both Michael and I want to congratulate the entire Bitcoin ecosystem for how far it has come since our last blog post (just two weeks ago).

Bitcoin cracked $300… $400… AND $500, with a market cap of approximately $5.7 billion

This guy paid off his student loans with BTC

Merchants are slowly starting to accept BTC <- we fully support this!

An unprecedent amount of news coverage in general public media outlets — including being on the front page of the Wall Street Journal’s Money Section (twice) and a few bitcoin related interviews on CNBC!

These past two weeks have been amazing, we’re excited to see where the future lies!

Giving image credit to reddit user: http://www.reddit.com/user/Drpudding

Okay, so where’s snapCard now?

Well physically, we’re proud to announce that we’ve joined the Boost accelerator program and we’ll be working and living out of San Mateo, CA for the next three months!

This is where we work at the moment! That’s Michael with the baseball cap.

Adam and Brayton, the founders of Boost, are huge supporters of Bitcoin (they invested in over 9 bitcoin-related companies in their last intake) and we’re happy to leverage their network and support to help snapCard grow. We’re extremely proud and excited about this opportunity!

Okay, okay, what are we doing about the product?!

So two weeks ago we let 8 people test snapCard for us to see what alterations we need to make prior to releasing it to everyone. Haha, if you haven’t read about the response that we received, you can read about it in this blog post.

Not only were we happy about the response, we were ecstatic with the feedback that we received. Huge thanks to everyone that tested the product out! If you’re ever out near SF, we owe you a beer… actually this goes out to anybody.

We took a lot of this feedback and automatically made the changes. For the changes that were a little more complex we went to our users and surveyed what’s most important to them. ANOTHER, huge thanks to the 200+ people that responded to our survey. You guys are awesome!

Just last week we released a private beta to our entire beta list — the response has been terrific!

We have now processed orders in 6 different States, Canada, UK, and Switzerland (big props for the gentleman that figured out how to bypass our US, UK, and Canada limitations).

Feedback has been coming in and Michael and I are working hard to make minor tweaks to the product.

Below is a list of the what we’re planning to launch to our beta users this Wednesday (November 20th) — I’m publicly announcing this for Adam :)

New option to buy via invoice . Currently, users need to attach their Coinbase account to the snapCard in order to make purchases. We’re adding the option to pay per item in the form of an invoice.

. Currently, users need to attach their Coinbase account to the snapCard in order to make purchases. We’re adding the option to pay per item in the form of an invoice. Bookmarklet functionality to more websites. We’ve made significant changes to our bookmarket (the tool users use to shop with snapCard). It seemlessly works on websites such as Apple.com.

We’ve made significant changes to our bookmarket (the tool users use to shop with snapCard). It seemlessly works on websites such as Apple.com. Bookmarklet design changes. We’re reorganizing the way that the bookmarklet is displayed. We’re making the bookmarklet a lot easier to use and understand.

We’re reorganizing the way that the bookmarklet is displayed. We’re making the bookmarklet a lot easier to use and understand. Minor changes to the backend. Updating things such as being allowed to remove products from your shopping cart, visually displaying the conversion of the final price of the product, and more.

A big thank you to James who aided in optimizing our security to help keep everything running smoothly. We’re also working with security teams to ensure that our platform is running in a safe and secure manner for everyone!

Both Michael and I are extremely excited with our progress and we’re excited to release snapCard to the public! The holidays are around the corner and we’d love to see users shop using their bitcoin!

Alright one last big THANK YOU!