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Re:Move Over Kickstarter, Crypto-Equity Is the Next Frontier by presty on Saturday July 05, 2014 @04:52PM (#7992913)
when joining a kickstarter campaign, you're donating money or paying for (the pre launch of) some product, not taking some form of equity in a company
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Re:Move Over Kickstarter, Crypto-Equity Is the Next Frontier by makomk on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:45AM (#7994080)
There are existing laws covering pre-orders in order to prevent the kinds of scams we've seen on Kickstarter. It's not entirely clear that Kickstarter is actually compliant with them.
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