FundedByMe, Europe's largest and most flexible crowdfundingsite, banked on the market for Internet currency bitcoins. Investors have the next six weeks to prove itright or wrong.

The Stockholm-based platform kicked off a 45-day pilot projectto see how much investment interest it could attract to the bitcointrading platform Safello, which was designed to bring greatersafety and security to bitcoin commerce. After the crowdfundingcampaign closes, Safello officials will carefully analyze activityand results, according to FundedByMe CEO and Founder DanielDeboczy.

“We see that among our investors, a great many of them areearly-adopters,” Deboczy said. “We also know that bitcoin users arefamiliar with new inventions at an early stage. That's why wethought that we may offer both groups something interesting.”

The pilot project also accommodates the bitcoin community,Safello CEO and Cofounder Frank Schuil said.

“We know that many of our customers would be interested toinvest if they can do so with bitcoins,” Schuil said. “As abitcoin company, we of course need to support this. For customerswho are already verified with Safello, this will also be theeasiest way to invest.”

The program's lead investor was the Digital Currency Group,which incubates and seeds bitcoin and blockchain technology-relatedcompanies, Deboczy added. Digital CEO Barry Silbert was the mostactive seed investor in the digital currency industry with more than 50 investments in 15different countries.

“I don't worry about the success of this campaign,” Deboczyadded. “It's very attractive and there will probably be manyinvestors wanting to allocate their money.”