Bitcoin Marketplace Purse Takes Page From Etsy in Expansion
The online marketplace that lets its customers buy items from Amazon with bitcoin today started looking an awful lot like Etsy, the website that puts a wide range of vendors directly in touch with buyers. Backed by some of the biggest names in bitcoin, Purse's launch of Purse Markets, lets anyone sell almost anything in exchange for bitcoin. Almost. The man in charge of helping recruit this new crop of vendors says the new business model is about more than just a new way for people to make money, it’s a way to grow the number people actually spending bitcoin in an organic way. Purse....
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Back in November of 2015, Andrew Lee CEO of Purse.io announced its new venture Purse Merchants via Bitcoin.com’s All-Star AMA sessions. The company has just notified us that Purse Merchants is now live and rolling out its services to the public. Now anyone globally can purchase and sell items for bitcoin utilizing secure escrow transactions. Bitcoin.com....
On this episode of the official Bitcoin.com podcast, our host Zach Doty sits down with Kent Liu of Purse.io, a service that lets users spend bitcoin on Amazon purchases with discounts. During the show, Liu explains how Purse.io works, and how much users can expect to save by using the service to shop on Amazon with bitcoin. Liu says that the Purse team....
The Bitcoin-based marketplace that has connected the community with discounts at Amazon for using cryptocurrency has just announced the launch Purse Pre. This new Purse Pre market will allow Bitcoin users to place pre-orders on goods and trust they will receive the product or get their digital currency back. Bitcoin Marketplace Guarantees Pre-Ordered Products With Purse Pre. The San Francisco-based company says Purse Pre will enable pre-orders with Bitcoin and “ensuring orders are either perfectly fulfilled or customers get all their money back.” Pre-ordering on the worldwide web is great....
People in economies suffering from market volatility are turning to Bitcoin applications to help them maintain their standard of living. Workers in Venezuela are using the popular Bitcoin marketplace Purse to save on basic necessities. As well, people in India are escaping the devaluation of their currency with payroll service Bitwage. In each case,....