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December 18, 2013 07:40 am GMT
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South America Can Now Crowdfund With Bitcoins
While the rest of us are messing around with our Paypals and Amazon Payments, some folks in Argentina have created the first crowd funding platform in America to take bitcoin. The platform, called Idea.me focuses primarily on artistic, musical, and retail projects although, as evidenced by the project photos, many campaigns have a philanthropic bent. The platform was "born in Argentina" wrote Pia Giudice and is now in seven countries in Latin America. It is the area's only regional crowd funding platform. The platform has seen $750,000 in funding and should be raising $2.4 million in March 2014 in a Series A.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/krIG-fYYkl8/
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