Tagged: bitcoin

June 13, 2014 @ 6:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

IdentityMind Global unveiled the IGNITE program for bitcoin startups at the InsideBitcoins conference in New York City earlier this year. The program helps bitcoin startups jumpstart their compliance program by providing low-cost access to the most comprehensive KYC and transaction monitoring solution available for Anti-Money… Read More

April 10, 2014 @ 1:10 pm By Lionel Slusny  |  

Today at the Singapore Crowdsourcing Week conference, were discussions about digital currencies and there relative advantages. These discussions touched upon how digital currencies fit with crowdfunding operations. The panel gathered; Alexis V Nicosia of Seedcoin, James Cox of Ripple and David Moscowitz of Coin Republic…. Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

AngelList co-founder and CEO Naval Ravikant took to his blog over the weekend to outline what could be a new paradigm in funding startups. It melds the crowdfunding model with a novel cryptocurrency that in theory could allow a company to “go public” without the… Read More

February 26, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“MtGox is gone. So let’s prepare ourselves.” That is the first statement made in an article that ran yesterday in Business Insider entitled “I Have $285,000 Stuck On Mt. Gox.” Mt. Gox was once the de facto Bitcoin exchange, the first stop for those just getting into… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 9:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re still trying to make sense of how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work, you aren’t alone. It may be worth learning; It isn’t every day that a new technology comes along with the power to disrupt a basic tenet of life on Earth. (I’m looking… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 11:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdtilt has announced the rebranding of Crowdhoster as CrowdtiltOpen today, and it packs what the platform is calling the “most robust feature set of any crowdfunding tool in the world.” A statement from Crowdtilt CEO James Bashara makes it clear both why the platform was… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we talk to Adam Draper of Boost.vc about his accelerator and the culture around accelerators in general. He shares some information about the cool stuff coming out of the companies in his portfolio. Of course, Draper is also bullish on… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re moving full steam ahead with Inside Crowdfunding, and we’re excited to announce that the guest for episiode #2 will be Adam Draper, CEO and founder of Boost VC and fourth generation venture capitalist. Why am I excited to have Adam on the show? Because… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has announced the launch of the FundersClub Theme Series, a series of managed funds focused on early-stage companies in specific verticals. The first three funds will focus on health & wellness, Bitcoin & payments and hardware. FundersClub is an invite-only equity crowdfunding play. Just last month the… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 12:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we interview Tubestart co-founder and CEO Josef Holm to get more information about his crowdfunding platform for YouTube content creators. We also discuss Tubestart’s new charity-related initiative and Holm’s recent ReelSEO article about MCNs participating in the crowdfunding… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

RealtyShares only emerged from beta recently, in November of 2013 to be precise. Now the hybrid real estate crowdfunding platform has announced a new platform feature that will allow investors to use Bitcoin to invest in real estate deals. Why? It all boils down to… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 2:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this week we reported on a crowdfunding campaign launched by Balanced. It’s interesting in that it seeks to fund a new feature for Balanced’s ever-evolving online payments platform. In this case – and despite the fact that this is still a rewards-based campaign –… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 1:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securities attorney, JOBS Act authority and Crowdfund Insider columnist Sam Guzik was recently interviewed on It’s Rainmaking Time by Kim Greenhouse.   Her guests were bestselling authors, leaders of industry, and pioneers attracting listeners from around the world. Greenhouse, having met Guzik a the Crowdfunding Bootcamp… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsourcing Week is gearing up for their 2nd Annual Crowdsourcing Week conference in Singapore and they have just announced they will be accepting digital currency bitcoins for the event registration. Crowdsourcing Week claims to be the first global-scale conference to accept Bitcoins. The event organizer… Read More

January 5, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Filmmakers Travis Doering and Jason Bourque have been raising funds for a documentary about Edward Snowden since the fall of 2013 with a plan of ending their funding campaign on January 1, 2014. That date has come to pass, and the result of their effort… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and The Silk Road closed this past weekend and the crowdfunding film made goal during the final hours of the campaign.  Alex Winter, the project creator, is a well known actor, director who may be best known for… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Simon Dixon is a fan of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has taken the world by storm. He recently presented at Bitcoin Expo London 2013. In the talk, he explains how UK residents can funnel money out of their income taxes and into Bitcoin-related startups. Now… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 9:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jailbreaking a smartphone like the iPhone gives the end user root access to the device, allowing them to bypass limitations set in place by Apple. For example, normal iPhone users can only install apps from Apple’s App Store. Jailbreaking an iPhone allows the user to… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s enough to make you sick. A UK man named James Howells was cleaning house and decided to throw away an old hard drive he hadn’t used in years, figuring any files he needed were already transferred to his new laptop. The problem? The hard… Read More

November 23, 2013 @ 9:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A variety of crowdfunding efforts have been launched seeking funding for Ross Ulbricht’s legal defense fund. Ross Ulbricht recently made headlines when he was arrested in conjunction with an investigation into dark web drug marketplace SilkRoad. Ulbricht is accused of being “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the… Read More