Does a crowdfunding site like kickstarter.com exist, which accepts bitcoins instead of dollars?
For donation-based crowdfunding:
- http://www.BitcoinStarter.com
- http://www.CoinFunder.com
- http://www.nestorbooster.com
- http://ignitiondeck.com/id/bitcoin-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.]
Lighthouse is an excellent decentralised crowdfunding app by Mike Hearn (one of the Bitcoin Core / bitcoinj devs).
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.
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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 Aug 11 '12 at 11:24
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nestorbooster is a crowdfunding site for board games. They accept Bitcoin payments.
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.
I built https://fundhub.org/ for crowdfunding software, no fees :)
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.
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:
They are a regulated Equity CrowdFunding platform in the UK.