First, please join our announcements channel so you don’t miss any updates https://t.me/BRDapp

Also join our Telegram support channel if you have not to ask questions, bring up concerns, or just give us suggestions. https://t.me/BRDchat

Next, please take a moment to fill out our short survey to learn more about our users and what priorities are important to you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/brd_tgram

Last month I started a monthly update to go over some of the big things you may have missed and to update you on the inner workings of BRD. As I said in the last update, I want to make sure that we are communicating with our users and token holders more than just answering questions and providing support. It is my mission to pass along these important updates to you.

So first things first, let’s start with the re-brand. Our CMO Aaron Lasher’s blog post is a good primer on what has changed: https://breadapp.com/blog/bread-unifies-brand-brd/.

In summary, we have adopted a theme of unification, and the Bread logo will be replaced by “BRD,” also the symbol for our token. We like to think of this as an abbreviation for “Banking Reinvented and Decentralized.”

I also said every month I would be giving you a little insight into each team member. This month I wanted to highlight our Ambassador manager TylerWhite. You may have seen him on our first YouTube educational video “buying bitcoin with a credit card on BRDapp.” Check it out and please subscribe. We will target releasing new videos every week .https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC33l26omZxKNf81927LjwDg.

Tyler has been essential to the ambassador program, interviewing, hiring, and training our small army of ambassadors — we like to call them “bakers” — who are who are now in charge of our Chinese telegram group https://t.me/BRD_CN and our Spanish telegram group https://t.me/BreadEspanol. Having his energy, support, and ideas added to the team has spurred on so much growth and seeding just in the last month, and I can’t wait to see what it grows into. In short, it has been an honor to work beside him.

February was a busy month for the whole team. The coders have been working on ERC20 support for the BRD app as well as releasing the BCH beta for iOS. Please note that we now have two live betas. If you are using the BTC/ETH/BRD beta and switch to the BTC/BCH beta you will no longer see your ETH or BRD. But don’t worry, your BRD and ETH are safe. You can easily toggle between versions using the TestFlight app. If you would like to try out the BTC/BCH beta here is the link: https://breadapp.com/beta/. Meanwhile, our CPO James continues working on the waterfall reward system (We know how much everyone can’t wait for it to start).

Also, I wanted to talk for a minute about SegWit (or segregated witness) which BRD plans to implement. Many exciting developments are now coming to fruition, including Schnorr signatures, the lightning network, and side-chains/drive-chains. As such, our President and the creator of the original app, Aaron Voisine, released a blog about how we view the future of all of these upgrades that you can read here: https://breadapp.com/blog/breads-roadmap-segwit/. The survey listed in the beginning of this post asks your opinion about some of these topics, so make sure to cast your vote.

Next on the list was the successful partnership with Simplex which gave our users the ability to purchase bitcoin with a credit card with large limits ($20k per day) and near-instant delivery (compared to the usual 5–7 day waiting period). Now, some of you reading this may think that the fee (7.9%) is a little high and that you can buy bitcoin cheaper. You’re right, of course. Using myself as an example, here in the US I can buy bitcoin for 1% + 10 cents when I use the ACH (bank account) option in BRD. But there are many countries that simply do not have the same access that some of us do. Some countries have a 25–30% margin over the price of bitcoin. So although this one particular service might not be attractive to everyone, it’s a huge deal to many people. Please read our recent blog for more information: https://breadapp.com/blog/bread-launches-international-bitcoin-purchases-credit-card-high-limits-same-day-delivery/.

The Dallas Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Superconference was a great event. BRD was was one of the sponsors, and due to that I found myself surrounded by attendees with bread lanyards around their necks. Our head of support Daniel, and CMO, Aaron Lasher also attended. Aaron and I both spoke at the conference. Aaron’s talk was entitled “Writing history: Financial liberation and the rise of the Millenialionaires.” I believe he may have coined that last word. Mine was on the “Basic need to haveknowledge of cryptocurrency.” We will share both of these as soon as the videos are distributed from the conference. In addition we engaged in the usual conference activities: meeting our users, seeing old friends, networking with potential partners.

Regarding conferences, on March 15 & 16, 2018 at the Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, CA. BRD will be sponsoring and exhibiting at Token Fest. Our CRO Brent Traidman will be speaking at the event. https://tokenfest.io.

If you’re hungry for more updates, look up our BRD Instagram. Check out all the pictures we took from the Miami and Dallas conferences. https://www.instagram.com/breadapp/.

Lastly, I want to thank all of you again for taking a moment to read this. We have an AMA with our CEO Adam next Wednesday March 7th. More details will come soon so make sure to come with your questions. As always, thank you for joining us in this endeavor, and wanting to take part in building a better future. If you need anything please tag me @breadcommunitymanager on our main telegram support channel https://t.me/BRDchat.

Alex Eaton, BRD Community Architect

3/02/2018