SnapCard Aims to Allow You to Buy Anything Online With Bitcoins
Perhaps you've heard of "Gyft", a service that allows consumers to purchase gift cards to popular retail locations with Bitcoin. Well another start-up is coming on the scene that aims to allow you to buy anything online with your Bitcoins. It's called SnapCard, and the San Francisco-based company says their service "works on every website". ScapCard works as a bookmarklet. The end user makes the decision to purchase a product on the web, clicks the SnapCard bookmarklet, and makes a confirmation by clicking the "Add to SnapCard" button to purchase. Hitting the "Buy" button executes on the....
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Online startup snapCard wants to make it easier to use bitcoins online by skipping merchant integration altogether. SnapCard users can purchase items from major retailers, even if their e-commerce platform doesn't accept bitcoin. Users can also avoid logging into a retailer's website. Michael Dunworth, snapCard's co-founder, said: "We want to make the shopping process as easy and fast for bitcoin users as possible." SnapCard offers a bookmarklet that users can click on when they visit a product's page. The bookmarklet automatically grabs information from the product (like price and....
Read the full story here. There's a new start-up based out of San Francisco that is providing a service to Bitcoiners that up to now hasn't existed on such an institutional scale. Users are reporting that snapCard works for international shipments of United States goods sold through the magic of the internet as well. This is great news as Bitcoin spending is the solution for Bitcoin hoarding and there is nothing better than ordering items off of Amazon or Ebay. It is unfortunate that the big name stores that snapCard allows Bitcoiners to shop at do not yet accept Bitcoin directly. However,....
Snapcard, a cryptocurrency payment processing company, has announced integration with Wix.com. Wix.com is a very large cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create websites using HTML5 through drag-and-drop tools. Snapcard utilizes a simple drag and drop tool that allows users the ability to purchase anything on the internet using digital currencies. By partnering with Wix.com, Snapcard's widget can be used on websites created on wix.com with a few simple steps. Currently, over 53 million websites have been built using wix.com, and each one of these websites will be....
San Fransico-based startup snapCard was founded earlier this year by Michael Dunworth and Ioannis Giannaros, with the aim to make bitcoin an everyday, liquid currency. The Boost-funded company provides a service which lets bitcoin enthusiasts shop online with their cryptocurrency. It promotes itself as: "The easiest way to buy anything on the Internet using bitcoin." In their interview with CoinDesk, Dunworth and Giannaros discuss e-commerce, the holiday season and how early adopters have fuelled the company's recent success. What is snapCard? Michael Dunworth: SnapCard is a simple way for....
Microsoft's Bing rewards site gets a great deal of traffic. Many visitors of the site may have gotten their first taste of Bitcoin this morning, noticing a $500 sweepstakes sponsored by Snapcard. CCN previously reported about Snapcard and the way that it accepts multiple cryptocurrencies at real world businesses, among other stories. Today Bitcoin got a rather big boost thanks to Snapcard's promotion of a $500 sweepstakes. The company will open the winner a wallet on their own platform and provide them with the money. Presumably there would then be nothing stopping the winner from moving....