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I'm curious as to how one could go about raising capital for equity in a company through a bitcoin crowdsale. Seems like Counterparty is an option? Any help is appreciated.

It depends on many factors.
Could you more specific your question?

Say you want to give 10% equity in your company for X capital. How does one distribute shares as tokens in which the shareholders can also get dividends and vote in shareholder meetings like a legitimate company?

I think that this kind of activity would require starting some kind of a new cryptocurrency, which value will be equal to one share of the company.
To do something like that, you need to make a completely new altcoin, with new rules. Not like a copy of some other crypto, or with the technical details same as bitcoin.
I think that it is a really hard task to do it on your own,  you actually need a team of coders and people who are really into making their own coins, and these people need to be trusted, because if you will hire someone who is not trust-worthy, then it might influence the token you want to create.

Exactly this. Op, you want to look up term ICO which stands for Initial Con Offering. This is a method of croudfounding used by crypto developers and business owners.
The specifics of each ICO are different, every project is different and there is only one common ground, there is a promise of high profits for early backers if the project will take off.

Here you can see examples of new ICOs and read some details: http://www.icocountdown.com/ (http://www.icocountdown.com/)

How is the specifics of the project?
Is there a demand for this?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but an ICO is essentially issuing a brand new currency, that requires mining, nodes etc? The currency supply is not fixed either?

I am more interested in issuing a digital asset, similar to what Counterparty.io does. The assets or tokens would represent shares in my company. So if I created 100 tokens, and sold 10 representing 10% of my company, the token holders = shareholders. As long as I am able to pay the token holders dividends and allow them to vote in shareholder meetings, it should be a legal operation.

I know VC funding is the traditional option but since my company is crypto-related, I'd rather my investors be pro-crypto. Not to mention I would expect to get a higher valuation issuing tokens.

In how much is it legal in those countries where the crypto currency has not yet been fully implemented? Is there a risk of colliding with the law because of such a company and will the punishment follow?

How can people increase the long-established equity in the company, I want to know how?

And what is possible in fact? Probably worth the answer to read on the Internet. If I find something, I'll post a link.