A Manx charity is hoping to cash in on the Bitcoin craze.

The ManxSPCA has launched ’Bitcoin Donations’ in which people who invested in the virtual currency can now donate leftover Bitcoin to the society for it to convert back to pounds and pence.

ManxSPCA director Steve Burrows, who set up the ’Bitcoin Donation’ process, said: ’The Isle of Man was an early adopter of Bitcoin, and many people experimented with the crypto-currency concept only to find that it’s not currently practical for small transactions or everyday payments - including me.

’Lots of us who were early adopters of Bitcoin have small amounts leftover in our Bitcoin wallets which are not practical to spend and are too small to be worth the effort of converting back to real money.

’Instead of people forgetting about these small amounts of Bitcoin or losing them when they upgrade their mobile phones, the ManxSPCA is asking people to donate their spare bits of Bitcoin to us.

’We will aggregate all these little donations and convert them back to fiat currency when we’ve received enough to make the exchange fees worthwhile."

’We have set up a Bitcoin donation page on our website at http://www.manxspca.com/giveabit which makes it really easy for anyone to donate your spare Bitcoin to us.

’Our animals will love you, we will love you, you will feel better for having done good, and you will finally have found something worthwhile to do with that little bit of Bitcoin.’