Earlier today we reported that a man from London, a rather ambitious man we might add, by the name of Thom Feeney decided to take matters into his own hands and try to rescue Greece’s economy by bailing them out through a crowdfunding campaign. The goal is to raise a whopping 1.6 billion euros which is admittedly a bit of a stretch.
That being said it turns out that the crowdfunding campaign proved to be so popular to the point where Indiegogo’s servers experienced technical difficulties due to overwhelming interest in the campaign. This was confirmed by Indiegogo in a tweet which read, “We’re experiencing connectivity issues due to overwhelming worldwide interest in the @GreekBailout campaign. Thanks for your patience.”
The servers appear to be back up again but it does serve to prove that Feeney might be onto something here. As it stands, the campaign has managed to raise over half a million euros at this time of posting, but with 6 days to go until the deadline, it really does seem unlikely that it will be able to succeed. Feeney is working on the assumption that if everyone in Europe were to donate a couple of euros, this problem should be able to solve itself.
He points out that there are 500 million people in Europe and a few euros here and there should be good enough, although given that his campaign has reached international status, the rest of the world could pitch in too. Like we said we are skeptical that it will reach its goal but we wish Feeney and Greece all the best of luck!
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