Is there a crowdfunding site for Bitcoin?

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Does a crowdfunding site like kickstarter.com exist, which accepts bitcoins instead of dollars?

michelemarcon

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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For donation-based crowdfunding:

There's also:

and some day coming back:

Of course, the "equity" markets for equity-based crowdfunding:

And a forms of microlending from the crowd include:

and others.

[Update: Thanks to others answering this question as well, I've updated this list with their input as well.]

Stephen Gornick

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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Almost all of these sites are now defuncttoddmo 2018-04-14T03:14:59.557

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Lighthouse is an excellent decentralised crowdfunding app by Mike Hearn (one of the Bitcoin Core / bitcoinj devs).

qertoip

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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check out https://www.reddit.com/r/LighthouseProjects/ for project to fund

greg121 2015-02-09T16:55:50.773

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Another option, buy/issue shares or bonds: Cryptostocks.com

KKK

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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We received a lot of requests for this, so we built a Bitcoin extension for IgnitionDeck: http://ignitiondeck.com/id/bitcoin-crowdfunding/

This way, you can use Bitcoin to crowdfund on WordPress.

Nathan Hangen

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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I went to a presentation in London last night with Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert & Simon Dixon and a number of people in the room had invested in BankToTheFuture.com using BitCoin here:

http://bit.ly/121sJCW

They are a regulated Equity CrowdFunding platform in the UK.

Trader James

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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http://www.bitcoinstarter.com hasn't launched yet, but it does have a webpage where you can submit your email address to be notified when it does launch.

jjwatts

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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2Hi jjwatts! When possible please include more information than just a link. In this case the fact that the site hasn't launched yet should definitely be included in the answer.D.H. - bitcoin.se 2012-08-11T11:24:33.520

The url is deadtoddmo 2018-04-14T03:16:17.923

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nestorbooster is a crowdfunding site for board games. They accept Bitcoin payments.

http://www.nestorbooster.com

Visitor

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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BTC Jam www.btcjam.com

They do quite a bit to verify the users, including using the Web of trust set up for bitcoin-otc.

mjc

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They are shutting down. Don't accept any new users.toddmo 2018-04-14T03:16:33.830

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I built https://fundhub.org/ for crowdfunding software, no fees :)

iElectric

Posted 2012-07-25T07:58:17.790

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I think it's dead nowtoddmo 2018-04-14T03:17:26.990