Purse, the platform for purchases on Amazon using cryptocurrencies, announced this Thursday, April 16, the cessation of its operations. From this very day, it is disabled the opening of new accounts in the system, stated the company through a press release.In this text, the team of Purse stated that it had to take “the difficult decision to dissolve the company, in addition to thank those who used their platform, the recommended, or “helped in any way” to their growth.The reason behind this decision is due to issues of business and low profitability, confirmed in direct contact with Breaking News Eduardo Gomez, chief of Support from Purse. Gomez said that since the creation of the Purse in 2014 the intention was to give you a case of using more bitcoin.Similarly, the representative of the Purse indicated that during the last 2 years were disadvantages to maintain the profitability of the company. In that period, he said, were reducing the staff to be with a dozen people. Seven of them, including her, are venezuelan.The statement specifies that Purse will permanently close down on the 26th of June. In the meantime, will continue to offer assistance and support for orders and requests for withdrawal of funds that are in progress, seeking to “ensure that it liquidated all transactions and accounts”.From next week, the 23rd of April, it will not be possible either to create new purchase orders or matching orders. That is to say, that the orders have not been matched by a counterpart in the platform for that date will be cancelled. Which yes, will continue on course.In this regard, Gomez said that they are “engaged in conducting a close responsible enough”. With this, it refers to the support of 2 months they are offering and at the time of the advance with which are advising their users about the closure of their services.On the other hand, the communiqué invites its users to keep funds currently in the platform to withdraw “as soon as possible”.
Purse, intermediary for purchases at Amazon
Remember that Purse served as an intermediary between people interested in buying with bitcoin on Amazon, and those who wished to buy bitcoin by making these purchases in the online shopping platform.Basically, the platform was co-ordinating between the person that I wanted to buy a specific product on Amazon and those who wanted to acquire that same value in BTC. That person made the purchase on Amazon and, when the buyer confirmed the receipt of the product released the funds in bitcoin.At the end of march, the investigation by BitMex placed a Purse between the main organizations that contributed currently to the development of Bitcoin. The list, as reported Breaking News, reflected in Purse had 6 dedicated people to provide input into initiatives of open-source in Bitcoin.