I'm a little confused. This link takes me to a fund to "help us find stephen martin's killer". Which is itself a duplicate of another fund on the same site. Searching google for: truecrypt audit fundfill ... provides a link that is titled "Fund: A public TrueCrypt Audit - Fundfill", but takes me to the same Stephen Martin page as well.
Is fundfill broken? (and if so, should I trust it with money?) Or is there a secret decoder ring that I'm missing?
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On further digging, I'm going to say "no , I should not trust it with my money". The 'funds' are a mix of 2/3 year old and current requests, mostly people asking for money in a kickstarter-like fashion, as opposed to the bounty system that appears to be the intent.
The site has various issues, and while their twitter account is active the whole thing just has an air of not-something-I'd-trust about it.
/opinion
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Come to think of it, wouldn't kickstarter or something similar be better? Get an estimate for the work and start a fund to get it done?
I'm the owner of fundfill, and yes, there is an issue with the site. We're working feverishly to get the issue resolved. It is preventing money from actually appearing in the fund. I'd ask anyone interested to register with the site, and I'll email everyone once this is working. We're in a pre-startup phase, so I can only beg your patience with this bug. Would a Bitcoin account satisfy any lingering doubts? If so, I'll set it up as soon as possible. Again, my apologies for the problems with the site - this is the most traffic we've had. You can contact me at jbalfantz [insert symbol here] fundfill. Or twitter @joebalfantz / @fundfill
Is fundfill broken? (and if so, should I trust it with money?) Or is there a secret decoder ring that I'm missing?
[edit] On further digging, I'm going to say "no , I should not trust it with my money". The 'funds' are a mix of 2/3 year old and current requests, mostly people asking for money in a kickstarter-like fashion, as opposed to the bounty system that appears to be the intent.
The site has various issues, and while their twitter account is active the whole thing just has an air of not-something-I'd-trust about it.
/opinion
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Come to think of it, wouldn't kickstarter or something similar be better? Get an estimate for the work and start a fund to get it done?