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Finding Genius Podcast

WeiFund – Crowdfunding Campaigns on the Ethereum BlockChain with a Money Back Guarantee

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

WeiFund is a toolkit for running crowdfunding campaigns on the Ethereum blockchain. It's particularly useful for launching tokens that can be used in new applications and protocols.
You can launch a campaign using one of WeiFund’s contract templates or integrate your own smart contracts. The WeiFund contracts implement the core mechanics of crowdfunding; contributions with refunds if the campaign objective isn't met. The WeiFund web app makes it easy to start accepting contributions, and has hooks to allow you to reuse the user interface with custom contracts, if necessary.
Russell Verbeeten and Henry Chan, project lead and project manager shares how there solution is Low Cost, Easy to Use, Secure and comes with the utility of Campaign Templates in generating funds.
With a strong focus on security and smart contract best practices, they aim to make it easy to launch a safe campaign that works in the WeiFund user interfaces.
If you're planning to run a crowdfunding campaign then listen to this exciting interview first. Make sure to subscribe, review and stay tuned to Future Tech Podcast for more on Future Tech news. Contribute Bitcoin to fuel our interviews and keep us going!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.0

Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here

0:14.3

means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the

0:18.8

corner. For Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:26.0

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast,

0:30.0

almost here around the corner technology.

0:32.0

And today I have two members of the Y Fund team,

0:35.0

or We Fund team.

0:36.0

We're going to be talking about decentralized crowd funding

0:39.0

on the Ethereum blockchain.

0:40.0

So I'm talking with Russell Verbitin

0:42.0

and Henry Chan. How you guys doing?

0:46.1

Good, thank you.

0:48.1

Yeah, nice to doing this and I appreciate it.

0:52.0

The first question, you know, the best thing is what's the quick elevator pitch on

0:57.4

we fund or why fund? What do you guys do?

1:01.4

Maybe we can go through a quick intro of the two of us first before we talk about Wifun. Is that okay, Rich?

1:08.0

Sounds good.

1:10.0

All right, so my name is Henry Chan and I'm the product manager for the

1:14.6

program in the boardroom which are two of the spokes underneath the consensus umbrella.

1:19.0

And today we'll be talking about way fun, but prior to joining consensus I founded the boy

1:25.9

Canada's blockchain practice and led their technology team.

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