Kickstarter and Indiegogo have been a fantastic boon to the world at large as they have enabled so many different projects across a wide range of disciplines.
Now, Mike Hearn's Lighthouse is about to take crowd funding to the next level - decentralised crowd funding. This is going to be big. Very big.
Oliver Janssens offered up $100,000 to anyone who could replace the Bitcoin Foundation. His original post is here:
http://www.reddit.co...e_platform_that_can/He has just announced the winner(s) here:
http://www.reddit.co...winner_announcement/He will be awarded $40,000 on completion. After the platform is live, I will put an additional $50,000 towards the first core dev crowdfunding project that gets made on it.
The Eris Project will receive 10% for their efforts. (A freakin' AMAZING DAO proposal based on Ethereum.)
Mike Hearn has blogged about it here:
http://blog.vinumeri...er-janssens-team-up/VINUMERIS AND OLIVIER JANSSENS TEAM UP
Welcome to the first update about Vinumeris and the Lighthouse project, and thanks for reading this blog - your interest is both hugely appreciated and tremendously motivating.
About six weeks ago I gave a talk at the Bitcoin 2014 conference in Amsterdam, where I demoed an early version of an application that implements a form of crowdfunding which takes place directly on the block chain. Hopefully that talk will be available online soon. Interest in the project has been much greater than I expected and since then I’ve had meetings with many groups and people that would like to use Lighthouse once it’s finished.
Unfortunately there was a problem – although the app supports entirely peer to peer and decentralised crowdfunding, I planned to make the first version crippled and locked down to only my own projects. The reason was a plan to raise the development costs of the app using Lighthouse itself, presenting a catch-22.
More at the link.
You can find Eris here:
https://eris.projectdouglas.org/ 
