As bizarre as it sounds, a marketplace for crowdfunding paramilitary mujahideen, those engaged in jihad, has been discovered on the dark web. Accessible only through using the Tor browser, SadaqaCoins is very different from your average crowdfunding marketplace. Donors can send funds in the form of Bitcoin or Monero to help pay for 4x4 pickup trucks, .50 caliber bolt action rifles and ammunition...
One of the world's most popular crowdfunding platforms is getting in on the ICO game.
There exists a multi-billion dollar industry which is largely struggling to establish itself in the United States market. Untrustworthy businesses, often seen as trying to capitalize on a growing market trend simply to con individuals out of money, make it difficult for the average person to separate the legitimate from the not, stymieing the worthwhile endeavours of entrepreneurs trying to make...
Being the first to be funded through a crowdsale using Ethereum, the psychological thriller called Braid, announced they had partnered with blockchain innovation studio ConsenSys. They will use the company's award-winning crowdfunding platform, WeiFund, to raise the required capital for the production of the movie. According to director Mitzi Peirone and her production team, they would like to...
You’ve heard of open source networks. Now get ready for “Open Source Partying,” courtesy of Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party. Partying is nothing new, but the power of social media, crowdfunding, and cryptocurrency are making it happen in a new way. And the cryptocurrency evangelist Drew Glover, AKA Tom, happens to run BitNational, Canada's largest bitcoin ATM network. This week, they...
25 years ago, the Internet was just a gleam in some techies eyes, as a new age of technology was dawning. Many readers of this article will not remember an age before Facebook, Yahoo and Google, but yes, the Internet did exist without them. There was a time when there were no search engines, social networks, or even ESPN. Maybe you see the next 25 years being the Era of Bitcoin and its digital...
BlockTrust is a crowd funding platform designed to bring blockchain related projects and interested investors together in a mutually beneficial manner. Projects on BlockTrust are certified by a dedicated team who verify developer identity, review the source code, and provide essential steps to assist startups with securing their development funding. Projects funded through BlockTrust are secured...
Kevin McKernan is a scientist working for the firm Courtagen Life Sciences, which specializes in genomic sequencing. (The process of “figuring out the order of DNA nucleotides, or bases, in a genome—the order of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts that make up an organism's DNA.” [source: Genome News Network]). Previously, he worked on the Human Genome Project, the most notable and longest running genetics...