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Anybody know of a more active thread on the bitcointalk forums that takes the case of kickstarter.com accepting Bitcoin seriously? Thanks in advance Cool

Quote from: wnetwork on December 09, 2013, 03:36:42 AM

I doubt Kickstarter would accept Bitcoin. What if a project fail or turned out to be a scam? How do people get their bitcoins back?

Not if they use a payment processor like Coinbase/BitPay. If they are going to send money back(in case of project failure) they might follow the example of Wikipedia which sends back everything -(minus) miner transaction fees.

Quote from: Prolifik on December 08, 2013, 09:44:16 PM

I sent them this email.

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It would be really cool if you guys could add bitcoin as a funding option.

They replied.

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Thanks for writing in and sharing this idea with us! Although bitcoin payments are not currently available on Kickstarter, your feedback is an important part of how we decide which features to add. I'll pass it along to the rest of the team.

Thank you for taking the time to help make Kickstarter better,
Megan

What do you think?

Also in any case, I don't think it is a "boilerplate response" unless somebody else can show us that they received the exact same message. If that were true I would be very surprised. Anyway, it may be good to send an email to kickstarter.com when there is a project you would like to donate your money to but can't because of kickstarter's lack of a payment option for Bitcoin.

Anybody got a project they would like to donate to on kickstarter? Maybe the projects which you may be interested in, could learn about Bitcoin from you and then maybe they could accept Bitcoin. If enough support were shown(+if they are passionate about it which I think is a must) maybe they would ask kickstarter.com to allow their fans to give using Bitcoin. Aren't there lots of possibilities?

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give