Bitcoin Purse startup is closing its doors

Purse.io, a young growth that facilitated payments in Bitcoin sure Amazon, announced the closing of his service.

On his website, Purse explained that he had made "the very difficult decision" to stop his activities.

We are grateful for the opportunity offered by our supporters to create products and infrastructure for the community of cryptocurrencies. To everyone who has used our products, told their friends about it or helped us in any way, thank you, ”wrote the startup.

Purse offered discounts of up to 5% on the famous e-commerce site Amazon by connecting gift card holders and bitcoiners. Users could thus acquire cards (with a reduction) against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Although registrations are now closed, the company continues to honor open orders and withdrawals until June 26. She nevertheless invites her clients to withdraw their funds from the service before this deadline.

We are grateful to our customers who have used Purse.io by increasing the utility and distribution of Bitcoin. We are also grateful to all of the developers and companies that continue to support open source projects, ”added Purse.

Eduardo Gómez, support manager Purse, clarified that the closure of the business was in no way linked to the recent decision toAmazon to reduce the commissions of his affiliate program.