To be clear, if I were to contribute to this fundraising effort, could I contribute BTC from a coinbase or airbitz address? Or would it need to be from a desktop wallet like electrum?
Welcome to Bitcointalk! For the crowdfund, you can use any wallet. The address field to fill in is just one of the identification methods. A lot of people use third parties to perform their transactions, which is fine. All transactions will be matched before HYBRID distribution commences.
Anything new going on with this? What are the expected dates of completion? Its funded?
- To keep up with news, the easiest way would be to sign up for the newsletter. (Find the latest one;
here for example).
- The fundraiser will be completed on June 21st. Development milestones can be found
here.
- In terms of funding; our minimum for the bare team has been reached, we expect to raise a bit more in these final weeks to make sure more additional developers and bounties can be paid. Academic cryptographers aren't cheap, so we work with volunteers as much as possible.
I think the crowdfunding will be closed in two weeks.
Are the hybrid ready ?
The HYBRIDs are. After the crowdfund has ended, we will shift our efforts to the administrative process and transaction matching, to make sure they will be distributed properly. Every donator will be contacted to provide or generate a wallet where we can send them to. Distribution will then happen throughout July.