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Title: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: rayfloyd on May 09, 2013, 08:54:49 PM
http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/50032402607/humble-double-fine-bundle-now-with-bitcoin (http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/50032402607/humble-double-fine-bundle-now-with-bitcoin)

I think that's pretty awesome, paying games with bitcoins and supporting charity.

They are working with coinbase, I think that is also pretty good news.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: weex on May 09, 2013, 08:58:29 PM
True. There must be 10 threads about trying to get them onboard. Glad to see Coinbase finally did it!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: xlcus on May 09, 2013, 09:51:19 PM
Awesome!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Kazimir on May 09, 2013, 11:38:27 PM
That's great news! Our call has been heard. I'm off to HumbleBundle.com and place my BTC order right now!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Birdy on May 09, 2013, 11:41:52 PM
This is pretty big, Humblebundle is quite known by gamers.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: btcinstant on May 09, 2013, 11:44:18 PM
Good to hear!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: aigeezer on May 09, 2013, 11:55:31 PM
If you're using NoScript, remember to turn it off or you won't see the Pay with BTC button.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Birdy on May 10, 2013, 12:38:20 AM
If you're using NoScript, remember to turn it off or you won't see the Pay with BTC button.

Hmm, I use NoScript, but could see the button anyway.

Btw: Bought some Bitcoins on that news :3


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: MiningUnited on May 10, 2013, 12:50:35 AM
Awesome! This is what BitCoin needs - more uses rather than storage.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: kderaymond on May 10, 2013, 02:12:09 AM
Awesome. Humble Bundle and Bitcoin, what's not to love?


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: rayfloyd on May 10, 2013, 02:43:37 AM
I would donate, but I'm going to wait for the next bundle as the games are not really interesting to me and I need to finish other games anyway haha.

Can't wait to buy those games with bitcoins though haha next time


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: bittenbob on May 10, 2013, 03:21:06 AM
True. There must be 10 threads about trying to get them onboard. Glad to see Coinbase finally did it!

WalletBit had a period where we gave access to the humble bundle for Bitcoins. It was very popular so I'm sure they will do well.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: bittenbob on May 10, 2013, 03:23:24 AM
There it is:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128772.0


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Lumpy on May 10, 2013, 06:33:43 AM
This is big news for me! I've always supported Humble Bundle and have nearly all of them. I increased my amount substantially -- well over the Broken Age amount. I might consider bumping it up to the top ten even since I'm a fan of Tim Schafer/Double Fine.

Every Humble Bundle gets posted on the big deals sites (like SlickDeals) and they are generally respected for what they are doing so I think this goes a long way for Bitcoin's publicity. Let's get more "name-brand" sites accepting Bitcoin in some form or fashion!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: LightRider on May 10, 2013, 10:31:06 AM
Mac Heist should be the next target. Also Child's Play Charity.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: kjj on May 10, 2013, 12:22:15 PM
Ha!  Finally, a way to donate to EFF with bitcoin.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: The 4ner on May 10, 2013, 05:07:50 PM
Nice!


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: etotheipi on May 10, 2013, 07:13:49 PM
This is such a perfect match for Bitcoin (trading geeky digital goods for digital money). At least, for the "default" user base of nerds & geeks.  I just donated 1 BTC for the latest bundle.  I was so excited about this, I forgot to even look at what was in the bundle before donating!  


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Klestin on May 11, 2013, 02:52:40 AM
I had just about decided to skip this Humble Bundle, since I own most of the contents. Then they had to start accepting BTC. Instant buy.

Double Fine, Humble Bundle, Bitcoin.  It's a perfect storm of Libertarian Geek Win.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: Akka on May 11, 2013, 12:10:10 PM
Haha, nice to see the Top Contributors list:

Quote
1. SatoshiDice.com ฿ FTW    $2,500.00
2. @MagicalTux    $2,048.00
3. Blixa    $1,337.00
4. @WrapBootstrap    $1,256.00
5. @ExpiredPopsicle    $512.00
6. @Krashenbern    $256.52
7. @tpjeff    $256.00
8. @twolofbees    $255.00
9. @gaijingames    $225.00
10. Bitcoin is the Future    $201.00


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: philips on May 28, 2013, 10:04:40 PM
Guys, another Humble Bundle is out. And of course, you can pay with Bitcoins :)

I just bought mine, everything went smooth. Just wait for a confirmation before you click on Confirm Payment.

http://www.humblebundle.com

http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/1139817-bitcoin-faq


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: prezbo on May 28, 2013, 10:38:27 PM
Just wait for a confirmation before you click on Confirm Payment.
Why would this be necessary? I have never done that, everything went perfectly fine.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: philips on May 28, 2013, 10:53:21 PM
If you click on Confirm Payment before transaction is actually is finished and have at least one confirmation, you will receive an error instead of receiving the confirmation number from Coinbase.

That is not a real problem though, when transaction is finished you will still receive the Bundle by mail.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: prezbo on May 28, 2013, 11:27:55 PM
If you click on Confirm Payment before transaction is actually is finished and have at least one confirmation, you will receive an error instead of receiving the confirmation number from Coinbase.

That is not a real problem though, when transaction is finished you will still receive the Bundle by mail.
Well, it worked for me before the transaction was included in a block just fine.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: cdog on May 29, 2013, 09:58:24 AM
Holy crap Alan Wake looks amazing, everything on high at 60fps with just a 7950 at stock


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: rebuilder on May 29, 2013, 03:05:05 PM
If you click on Confirm Payment before transaction is actually is finished and have at least one confirmation, you will receive an error instead of receiving the confirmation number from Coinbase.

That is not a real problem though, when transaction is finished you will still receive the Bundle by mail.

I'm not sure the key is automatically mailed. I clicked "Confirm Payment" before my transaction had any confirmations and landed on a "waiting for confirmation" page. Unsure whether the page would autorefresh, I reloaded the page only to land back at the first page with the payment instructions. I waited until I had 4 confirmations but got no e-mail, so I rooted through my browser history for the payment page, found the "Confirm Payment" button still took me to the relevant transaction, was told the payment was confirmed and immediately received a download link by e-mail.

A bit clunky, the payment pages should give some more info on what to expect IMO. I'll point this out to huble bundle when I get the time.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: qualalol on May 29, 2013, 06:04:25 PM
The coinbase pages seem a bit clunky -- especially not telling you about how many confirmations are needed (apparently 5) -- and showing that 0BTC are present up until that point meaning you have no way of knowing what's happening. Also annoying that the BTC price changed every time I pressed confirm payment again (how am I supposed to know that they payment will fail until it's 5 confirmations?) -- luckily the BTC amount decreased as time went on i.e. what I transferred was enough and that didn't cause any extra failures, but still not too user friendly.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: ffssixtynine on May 29, 2013, 06:43:18 PM
It's up to the merchant how many confirmations are required. I'd be surprised if it's more than 1, but Coinbase has been running slow and we've spotted a couple of bugs.

The interface is clunky but it's not all Coinbase's fault. Bitcoin software needs to link up better (there is a URI scheme but not sure if it's actually in-use yet). Coinbase's back-end, now that's clunky.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: avabit on May 29, 2013, 06:45:43 PM
I didn't need to wait for any confirmations. I just sent the funds and clicked "confirm" and it sent me the keys.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: ffssixtynine on May 30, 2013, 08:00:02 AM
It still relies on coinbase spotting the transaction and sometimes that's been slow.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: qualalol on May 30, 2013, 12:21:39 PM
It still relies on coinbase spotting the transaction and sometimes that's been slow.
I think that's probably the problem I had -- But anyway, just noticed there's both the bundle and also Alan Wake on sale, so just snapped that up too! This time I waited for 1 confirmation to see what happened, and that worked fine -- but I still think it really should be made a bit more obvious somewhere as to how long it could take, since people less experienced with Bitcoin etc. might get worried. Anyways, it's pretty cool that I can get stuff with my BTC, and I'm sure things will be improved with time!  :)


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: ffssixtynine on May 30, 2013, 02:14:13 PM
The first problem is that Bitcoin takes an average of 10 minutes for one confirmation. I'm not sure how obvious the bundle make it.

The second problem is that Coinbase appear to have their own speed issues, not just Bitcoin confirmation times. We've had quite a number of users contact us about this and I've verified it for myself.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: qualalol on May 30, 2013, 03:44:41 PM
Any numbers on how many people are using the BTC option so far? Would be quite interesting to have that, and average BTC payment (probably in dollar terms) would also be quite interesting.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: ffssixtynine on May 30, 2013, 04:08:40 PM
It would be, but high rollers need to be stripped out really as they bias things heavily.

I've posted our much smaller bundle stats up here:

http://blog.thebitcoinbundle.com/post/51726115646/sales-numbers-and-extension

I'd expect the HiB to be much higher even after high rollers are stripped out.


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: philips on May 30, 2013, 08:29:37 PM
And another one from Telltale Games.

At least two worth buying: Back to the Future: The Game and The Walking Dead.

Cool deal.



Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: rayfloyd on May 30, 2013, 08:36:23 PM
And another one from Telltale Games.

At least two worth buying: Back to the Future: The Game and The Walking Dead.

Cool deal.



Don't forget Poker Night!

I just bought this weekly bundle and paid 10$ trhough btc.

I'd give more but I need to save up haha


Title: Re: Bitcoin now accepted by the HumbleBundle!
Post by: mprep on May 31, 2013, 12:46:57 PM
I think it's great that that I can finally spend my Bitcoins for the things I love: video games.