Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing

Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by holymacaral on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:57PM (#19434311)

I have long thought crowdfunding is ripe for disruption. We should not need a middleman to send people money over the internet. It can be accomplished via a smart contract and creator listings could be self-hosted (think openbazaar). It could also fix the censorship issue inherit to these platforms.

With Patreon raising prices and now this, maybe someone will crowdfund an alternative.

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Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by SlowRobotAhead on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:59PM (#19434339)

Throw the word blockchain in there and you’ll have a winner :)

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Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by holymacaral on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:03PM (#19434388)

It would use a cryptocurrency of course and probably a stablecoin. That means there's a blockchain somewhere along the line although crowdfunding would be an excellent use case for lightning-style payment channels to compress fees. If you pay a recurring fee every month then that's 12 fees a year. With payment channels we can reduce it to 2 - the fee to open the channel and the fee to close it.

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