heymanslow Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 Hey guys, I am wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to crowdfund a project without disclosing your real name? The project will be to do a Russian voiceover for "The Story of Your Enslavement," with new subtitles to translate the English text appearing in the original video. I've tried bitcoinstarter.com, but they've been taking forever to approve of my campaign. Any other websites/ideas? Thanks!
surfingthoughts Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 I guess all you would need is a bitcoin address and place to advertise it, once you have the bitcoin the way to turn that into $ or whatever fiat currency you desire would be to buy something with the bit coins that holds its value and is easily resalable and sell it for $ a GPU might be a good thing to consider or precious metals (or you could just buy something you need and not have to worry about the resale thing). localbitcoins.com might be worth looking into for changing bit coin to cash anonymously but I haven't used them so can't vouch for them. Unless you are hoping to get people to pay for it from outside this community why don't you just do it here. You could make a thread on this forum with a bitcoin address, people could then use http://blockchain.info/ and search your address to see how much has gone in / out of the address. I would suggest have the target amount and all the details in the first post of the thread and update that first post each day to show progress. In terms of trust as this is all anonymous I would advise setting milestones that once a certain amount of bit coin is reached you will begin translating x% of the video and show that this is done maybe 1 week after the milestone is reached. Hope this helps . 1
heymanslow Posted October 5, 2014 Author Posted October 5, 2014 Wow, thanks, surfingthoughts, this is very helpful. I've had the idea about a BTC address too; however what if my target sum is not reached? It would be a pain in the neck to return the donations to everyone (assuming many people donate smaller amounts). But perhaps if my target sum is not reached by the deadling, I could just donate that sum to FDR... I'll wait for a bit longer, in case more advise comes up on here, and otherwise probably will follow your advise.
surfingthoughts Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 Your welcome and your idea of donating it to FDR if you don't reach a milestone is a really good one it could even be proved using http://blockchain.info/ . It might also be worth looking into creating a facebook page for it so people can follow progress and perhaps share it with friends of theirs who are FDR listeners that aren't active on the forums. If you use my idea or not go for it dude and good luck to you! - I just googled "crowd funding bit coin" and there are alternatives to the site you gave in your first post might be worth looking into. Coinfunder.com/ looks quite good but like all these sites they charge a %. 1
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