Hi all,

We recently made our Bitcoin crowd funding platform BitGrants (https://bitgrants.com) open to the public and all is going well so far!  We've established our platform in 2016 and hope to incorporate our business early next year.  By listing as a company, our directors, registered offices and share ownership will be made public via Companies House registry (U.K based company registry).

Our platform works through trust.  A platform where Bitcoin borrowers and lenders meet to do business.  

Each borrower has a Grade associated with their profile.  The higher their grade the less risk involved in investing on said borrower.  The grading system is based on the following levels of verification:

a). Identity (passport, driving license or national photo ID card)
b). Address (a recent utility bill clearly showing name and address)
c). Income (tax return, income statement or payslip)

Besides paper verifications, we also have several automated verification systems.  Such as linking the borrowers Facebook, Google and Paypal to the site.  

We hold personal information on our site, which is kept on secure servers.  Our systems were developed by veteran programmers, who know how to harden a site against attacks.

The data we hold on our servers is protected by the Data Protection Act.  Thus, we do not share/exchange/sell personal information with any third parties unless:

a). Required to do so by law
b). A borrower defaults and legitimate litigation is brought forward.

You can register with our site quite easily as we have incorporated both Google and Facebook login.  As we know registration can sometimes be a hassle.

We hope to hear your feedback as our team has worked really hard to make this platform happen.

Thanks!

I haven't been able to find any errors you referred to by looking at Chrome and FF console output.  Please let me know if your error(s) persist.

Could you please report the errors you're receving?

I'm sorry to inform you but we're in it for the long term.  I personally don't care if the site isn't an overnight success, but we'll get there eventually.  As long as we build a good community of trustworthy individuals (like BitcoinTalk's community - as you mentioned) then we will be fine.  Lots of new people are entering in to the Bitcoin space, it would be foolish to think it's all said and done in the crowd funding scene, or to say that their are any clear winners.   It's a big open market, with plenty of space for us all.

We believe the site's functionality is the most important priority.  Adding snazz is also important, but what use is good looking website if UI doesn't work!?  We've spent the majority of our time making sure all our systems function securely, so users can invest with us and have peace of mind.   The UI is an evolving thing, as we progress I'm sure we'll see a few iterations in the overall design.

Thank you for your criticisms - They have been duly noted.

Thank you for your kind words!  We are a relatively new site at this moment in time and are constantly looking for ways to improve our offering.  We believe in Bitcoin that's why we're a Bitcoin only Crowd Funding website.  We could have chosen from a multitude of cryptocurrencies, but we went with Bitcoin because we believe it's the main cryptocurrency which will succeed over time.

We use IP on the site to check the country of origin.  When users register, our server will record the inbound IP and do a cross check with a IP location database.  Thus, each user's country of origin is displayed on their profile.

Collateral isn't option ATM.  However, regarding your second point of the internet being dangerous:  Plenty of people make money on crowd funding websites as it stands.  You have to balance your risk/reward.

Thanks for you input!  You raise some interesting points and they will seriously be taken in to consideration.

Hi All,

We've recently been working our asses off trying to release our new Bitcoin crowd funding platform.

Our website: https://bitgrants.com

We would really appriciate any feedback!

Thanks

BitGrants