Well add Kickstarter to the all NFT Blockchain Future.
Let’s Build What’s Next for Crowdfunding Creative Projects
Link - https://www.kickstarter.com/article...-the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects
Link - https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-announces-blockchain-future-doubles-down-a-1848231993
Link - https://www.dicebreaker.com/compani...ockchain-crypto-reaction-designers-publishers
Let’s Build What’s Next for Crowdfunding Creative Projects
Link - https://www.kickstarter.com/article...-the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects
Kickstarter Announces Blockchain Future, Users Say 'No Thank You'You may have heard of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which helps you browse the web, or SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) which helps you send email. Protocols like these make up the unseen infrastructure of the internet. Imagine that, but for crowdfunding creative projects.
The protocol will live on Celo, a carbon-negative, public blockchain, be open source, and be available for collaborators, competitors, and independent contributors from all over the world to build upon, connect to, or use.
This openness enables everyone who is interested in the promise of crowdfunding to help build its future and have a say and stake in how it works. Blockchain will also open the potential to be rewarded for contributing to the systems that you use everyday.
Link - https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-announces-blockchain-future-doubles-down-a-1848231993
Tabletop creators wrestle with the cost of departing KickstarterIn a blog post rather optimistically titled, “Let’s Build What’s Next for Crowdfunding Creative Projects,” Kickstarter leans on the same “this makes everything easier and more open!” argument that blockchain/crypto/NFT stuff always does. But, as ever, without being able to actually explain why that is, or how it improves on the existing experience. (Largely because they can’t, since it doesn’t.)
Reaction has been swift and negative. The platform has long been on thin ice with many backers and creators, especially since its anti-union efforts from 2019-20. This intention to pivot to the blockchain has been seen by many as the final straw, and resulted in a week of protest and complaints, to the point where Kickstarter felt compelled today to issue a response. If you were thinking it would come in the form of an apology or a consideration of people’s feedback, well, lol.
Link - https://www.dicebreaker.com/compani...ockchain-crypto-reaction-designers-publishers
Among those who most vehemently opposed last week’s announcement were independent tabletop creators who rely on the platform’s ability to finance projects through the support of hundreds of backers. With the success and popularity of tabletop projects growing year after year on Kickstarter - vastly outperforming the likes of video games along the way - the decision to embrace the divisive technology behind crypocurrencies such as Bitcoin and NFTs - non-fungible tokens, notable for their presence in the art community - was received with no shortage of outrage.