Iconoclastic crypto-preneur Brock Pierce announced on July 4th his candidacy for President of the United States, running as an Independent in the November 3, 2020 Presidential election. Pierce took to Twitter to make the announcement. I, Brock Pierce, am running for President of the United States of… Read More
John Tsang, a former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong who has had a long government career, declared last month that he is running for Chief Executive of Hong Kong. His crowdfunding campaign launched five days ago on FringeBacker, and he has raised thus far HK$4,519,604 (approximately $583,000)… Read More
“We can do online voting on blockchain in a highly scalable way, and that’s what we did.” Focusing on solving the problem of securing public, private and proxy global election systems, Votem offers a blockchain-based solution which aims to give democracy back to the people by allowing… Read More
Hoping to change the way America is being ran, political organization Represent.Us has returned to global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise more funds for politician, Honest Gil Fulbright. The campaign reads: “Big-money special interests and lobbyists are corrupting our government.More money than ever before is flowing… Read More
Last month, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Professor, iconoclast, and creator of MayDay PAC, announced to the world that he was looking to raise $1 million to become the next president of the United States. He declared that he was currently seeking the nomination of the Democratic… Read More
Taking political interest to a whole new level, Brooklyn-based small product design studio and the creators of the 2008 Obama Action Figure, FCTRY, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for new Barbie competitor, the Hilary Clinton figurine. The “ready for action figure” (not… Read More
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