BitFlyer Launches FundFlyer Crowdfunding Platform by Carlo Caraluzzo @ 2014-09-12 10:17 AM

BitFlyer has launched Japan’s first ‘Post Mt. Gox’ exchange in April of 2014. Japan is one of the world’s largest economies and from February to April they were forced to shop overseas for Bitcoin. BitFlyer was soon followed by others, including Quoine, which is aimed more at professional traders. In contrast, BitFlyer wants to target a more general consumer market, especially newcomers to cryptocurrency trading. This story is more about its latest venture however, a crowdfunding platform called FundFlyer. The announcement comes just about one month after bitFlyer said that it had raised more than a $1.6 million and was in the market for a new venture, one that would give them more of an international reach.
FundFlyer will be integrated into the bitFlyer platform as part of it feature list. Set up in a similar fashion to other more well-known crowdfunding sources such as the familiar ‘Kickstarter’. Japan has its own crowdfunding platform called Shooting Star but it is fiat currency only. FundFlyer however wants to move Bitcoin into the Japanese mainstream first through crowdfunding and then move out internationally.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-09-12.