Gem & BitGive partner with Purse to provide Charitable Donations

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Donate to charity the next time you shop on Amazon. Just click a simple checkbox when you checkout on Purse, and thanks to Gem, our new sponsor, 0.5% of your purchase will be donated to BitGive. An additional 0.5% is donated by Amazon when you choose BitGive as your charity on Amazon Smile (follow this link).

We are also proud to announce that the Purse Charity Initiative now works on Purse Instant as well. Simply check the box and 0.5% of your purchase will be donated to BitGive — Instantly! Donating to charity has never been this easy.

BitGive is the premier bitcoin charity and recently partnered with The Water Project to build a water well in Kenya providing safe, clean water to more than 500 people, including two schools. The Water Project, by providing improved health and sanitation is unlocking the potential of this community, allowing additional time for studying, new economic opportunities, and improving the quality of life.

BitGive has also partnered with Medic Mobile to furnish 260 (and counting) mobile phones to health workers in Nepal for a new Antenatal program that was implemented as part of strengthening the health systems after the earthquakes. Recently, BitGive announced that the first project of its Bitcoin Charity 2.0 Initiative will be to build a platform to allow for transparent charitable donations, allowing donors to track their funds from start to finish offering complete transparency.

Gem is a full-stack Bitcoin API that makes it easy to build powerful blockchain apps with beautiful, elegant code. Gem provides multi-signature transactions, hardware protection, fraud protection, infrastructure and security auditing for bitcoin companies. We are very pleased to have them as the latest sponsor for the charitable program. Learn more at Gem.co.

We also have our Halloween promotion on Purse, where we’re promoting Candy! You can buy anything for Halloween on Amazon with Bitcoin and at a discount, thanks to Purse. From costumes to decorations and even candy. Ever dream of being the hero of your neighborhood and buying those full-sized candy bars? Buy them at Purse with a discount and don’t forget to click the box to support BitGive. Candy and charity. Talk about a sweet deal!