Kickstarter might add Bitcoin as a payment option in the future.

[bitmixer]

I sent them this email.

It would be really cool if you guys could add bitcoin as a funding option.

They replied.

Thanks for writing in and sharing this idea with us! Although bitcoin payments are not currently available on Kickstarter, your feedback is an important part of how we decide which features to add. I'll pass it along to the rest of the team.

Thank you for taking the time to help make Kickstarter better,
Megan

What do you think?

Would you expect them to tell you "we don't consider what our customers need" ??

[Fraxinus]

Would be a great idea, any company or site extra that accepts bitcoins is good.

The more, the merrier

[macjd]

Kick starter to get them kickstarted?

[Elkuurbitcoins]

that's just a boilerplate response. it would be cool but unfortunately this doesn't really mean anything.

Agreed. Unfortunately.

[hilariousandco]

that's just a boilerplate response. it would be cool but unfortunately this doesn't really mean anything.

Yeah, I think Wikipedia has an auto-response to any queries about whether they will accept Bitcoin donations or not.

[ajax3592]

Good move OP. It would be huge if they could accept/pay in Bitcoins.

[Bitcoin-hotep]

Come join the discussion here, I think we can really do something with this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=364160

[coindice]

Good that you emailed them, but a robotic answer. I imagine it would take many individuals emailing them about Bitcoin to actually consider it.

[best14you]

If you can buy a Tesla, there are endless possibilities. I hope to pay off my student loans one day...

[raspcoin]

I prefer Indiegogo over Kickstarter, but there is always Bitcoinstarter, too.

[Sitarow]

I prefer Indiegogo over Kickstarter, but there is always Bitcoinstarter, too.

Any options that are in parallel with the open nature of crowd funding with BTC is indeed a welcomed event.

[Bitcoin-hotep]

Good that you emailed them, but a robotic answer. I imagine it would take many individuals emailing them about Bitcoin to actually consider it.

Come help us that is our goal https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=364160.0

[dredd]

this would be great, 3d printer here i come.

[tjohej]

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Anybody know of a more active thread on the bitcointalk forums that takes the case of kickstarter.com accepting Bitcoin seriously? Thanks in advance  

I doubt Kickstarter would accept Bitcoin. What if a project fail or turned out to be a scam? How do people get their bitcoins back?

Not if they use a payment processor like Coinbase/BitPay. If they are going to send money back(in case of project failure) they might follow the example of Wikipedia which sends back everything -(minus) miner transaction fees.

I sent them this email.

It would be really cool if you guys could add bitcoin as a funding option.

They replied.

Thanks for writing in and sharing this idea with us! Although bitcoin payments are not currently available on Kickstarter, your feedback is an important part of how we decide which features to add. I'll pass it along to the rest of the team.

Thank you for taking the time to help make Kickstarter better,
Megan

What do you think?

Also in any case, I don't think it is a "boilerplate response" unless somebody else can show us that they received the exact same message. If that were true I would be very surprised. Anyway, it may be good to send an email to kickstarter.com when there is a project you would like to donate your money to but can't because of kickstarter's lack of a payment option for Bitcoin.

Anybody got a project they would like to donate to on kickstarter? Maybe the projects which you may be interested in, could learn about Bitcoin from you and then maybe they could accept Bitcoin. If enough support were shown(+if they are passionate about it which I think is a must) maybe they would ask kickstarter.com to allow their fans to give using Bitcoin. Aren't there lots of possibilities?

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

[Mike Christ]

Well, it has been quite some time, and they don't seem to have made any mention of it.  Perhaps we could email them again and see if their minds have changed.  Doing a short search, it seems bitcoin is a touchy subject with Kickstarter:

http://www.nebel.tv/no-bitcoins-at-the-kickstarter/
http://www.coindesk.com/kickstarter-pulls-bitcoin-the-movie-project-two-weeks-after-launch/

Here's an interesting bitcoin-related proposed alternative to Kickstarter: http://swarmcorp.com/