Thank you very much Tigggger, we need more good people like you in the world!

Hi all,

I live in South Africa and have a Barclays account that I would like to transfer money from my Barclays account into my Bitcoin account.

• Is there a wallet in the UK that can connect to Barclays?
• Failing that, is there a trustworthy person here (that others here can vouch for) that I can buy Bitcoin from if I pay the money into their Barclays/Paypal account?

Many thanks

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I wanted to get a good feel for how this is done as I have only ever explored Kickstarter et al.
I am also deep into Angel and VC investments but this too requires a fair amount of work. (something I am not shy of at all but frustrated with because it seems I am always just one step out of reach)

Thanks all, will keep you posted on progress.

Hi Vod,

Thank you for your reply!

This already got the creative juices flowing this morning in terms of trust so I just wrote to one of the guys at Bitx.co (South Africa's first Bitcoin company) to find out if they might play middle man as an Escrow system to hold the Bitcoin for investors until certain milestones are reached

• Milestone 1: Complete website (about 70% complete)
• Milestone 2: Complete pitchdecks for investors (90% complete)
• Milestone 3: Repayment to BitcoinTalk investors once investors (above) are on board

Would that be a possible solution to this problem? I have the majority of the presentation together which I will share in due course. I first wanted to put the feelers out there to see how this works.

Also Vod, in terms of payment back, how do the terms for this normally work (around Bitcoin)?

Many thanks!

Hello everyone,

We are working on a project that its core teaches the value of ownership and I would like to raise Bitcoin so that we can move out of our day to day job and only focus on this project.

In South Africa, we have an incredible problem with corruption, crime and lack of accountability and this project will use technologies like Bitcoin, Blockchain and eCommerce to get around many of these problems.

I have spent an enormous amount of time working on building our network first so that when we go live, we have channels that can talk about our project.

Once we have this project released in South Africa, I intend for the project to grow beyond our borders so that it can help many other countries in the same situation.

Ideally, I am looking for just enough funding to spend all my time completing our pitch decks and polishing the release of Version 1 of our project but this is tricky when you are running another business that is essentially the current funding for this project.

I need 3 months worth of investment to polish up our project and finish our pitch decks so that we can find additional investors. Once the project goes live, it will have a subscription based model built into it that will then start generating its own money plus there 2 other revenue streams we're working on to make it self sustaining.

Our bold statement, "What Elon Musk means for the environment, we will be for education"

Appreciate any input everyone might have.

Many thanks
James