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A comment on PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s Crowdfunding Account. Parent comment

Re:PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s C... by smackfu on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:49AM (#7971465)
Bitcoin is better for the people being funded, but leaves no recourse for the funders if the project just runs away with their money.
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Re:PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s C... by VMG on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:57AM (#7971527)
You can use multi-party escrow for that
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Re:PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s C... by smackfu on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @12:00PM (#7971572)
True, but then the project doesn't get the money until they ship, which means they pass up most of the benefits of crowdfunding.
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