What this means for the future: Companies will announce croudfunding and then fake amazing numbers in order to appear popular and gain lots of press.
I can see the headline now: "ACME Software raises $3 million in first 24 hours!" Actual funds raised: $250.
"We are using Stripe, so it's easy to audit." - Dalton Caldwell
(The point is: it's not easy to audit. Not that I actually care one way or the other.)
Easy == it wouldn't take a lot of work for him to allow someone to verify it.