I just want to let you know that personally I don't aim to try to get highest on some donator's list. If Humble Bundle inc doesn't want(they complain about "legally dubious" and are with EFF's standpoint) my Bitcoins I'll give them to the developers of games I liked for each bundle. Humble Bundle inc. gets my 0.01 USD. AA one of the Eufloria(who's now busy with porting it to Android) devs showed interest in trying Bitcoin out, and recently I'm contacting the devs of Cave Story+.

Though if you really want to try to get highest on Humble Bundle Inc's donators list I wish you the best of luck! 

I continue playing Cave Story+. No word from Nicalis, now I contact Pixel, Cave Story's Developer.
I appreciate this game which was part of HIB7.

Now I sent another message to Humble Bundle inc.
So in short I explain why my amount will stay at symbolic 0.01 USD and also my own willingness to help them learn about Bitcoin if they so want to try it out some time. Though I added some stuff about counting from 1 to 10 in the last minute and I quite regret it now, but done is done, damn.

For Humble Indie Bundle 7 I once again boycotted the USD, but today I contacted Nicalis who made Cave Story+(a great retro style game which I quite enjoy!) and told them that I like their game and that 1 Bitcoin will go to them if they're interested.
So for
HIB4FA: 0.01 USD and 1 BTC for Eufloria devs(Thx for a great game!)
HIB7: 0.01 USD. No BTC takers! Fine with me, I've donated my bitcoin elsewhere, actually to a free open source game which had nothing to do with the bundle, though it had to do 100% with indie game developers 


Anyone else had any luck contacting any game devs of the Humble Indie Bundles?

I just want to add that the price currently for the service of 0.015 BTC is totally ok for me. It is somewhat more expensive than what I pay in SEK for the same SMS using my carrier Telia. On txt4coins I pay 1.47 SEK while from my carrier I pay 1.25 to 1.28 SEK.

The price is very close or strongly close to what I pay with SEK and you can call me stupid but I'm really willing to pay a little extra for being able to use Bitcoin.
Keep up the good work!  

Just adding a little note: Do you know about Bitcoin Friday? Maybe it won't fit for your service but just wanted to let you know just in case you didn't have time to look it up.

If we take the definition made here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money then Bitcoin is only fiat money if program code is interpreted as being "law". Do you agree or disagree or have an opinion on:
"Fiat money is money that derives its value from government regulation or law."

Now if it only means law made by a government, then by that definition Bitcoin is not a fiat currency. by the Wikipedia article's definition that I quoted.

Regarding "Humble Bundle for Android 4" I contacted AA, a developer of Eufloria and I was asked if I would still like to give 1 Bitcoin(I had offered in a previous email to give a Bitcoin) as he would like to give Bitcoin a try. That's freakin awesome that somebody of a game of the bundle is interested, though he said he's not ready yet to spend time trying Bitcoin out as he's helping in porting Eufloria to Android.

I donated the same amount 0.01 USD for the latest bundle(HIB7 which will end in about ~45 hours). I want direct support or at least support from game devs of some of the bundle's games.(see above)
I didn't post the 'official standpoint' so here are parts of the reply I got for HIB4(Android):

Ok there's the official message. I'm continuing my 0.01 USD donation. The people I contact when I offer my Bitcoins are the developers of games(which I like!) which are made available through the bundle.

I had mentioned earlier about from the moment they accept Bitcoin I will give them lots of money. I take that back actually as I try to contact individual developers of the games that they release, and give them the Bitcoins and in that way I feel I've "paid my debt", so this idea of being in debt is no longer an issue for me. Of course once they start accepting Bitcoin I'll buy the bundles from them and stop this kind of "1 cent USD boycott".

Yes, I'm a fan of and running Desurium.

I've made a group on Desura called "Bitcoin" http://www.desura.com/groups/bitcoin since there was none. Please post your comments.

Thanks for your input.
Yes they skip paypals fees. On the other hand I can do like you did. I say I answer any questions willingly.

This is not the optimal way to update this forum thread but here goes:
Somebody has already made that question and the official answer from Desura.com was NO.

http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/bitcoin-support (thread got locked)

They don't support Bitcoin and they don't plan to it looks like. Don't give up hope though. Some individual game developers might be interested and that may be the next step. I've done this myself contacting a dev of an indie game who seemed interested, though don't expect them to know about it. This one asked me "Where do I register to get Bitcoins?", right, see? Decentralisation is a utopia for many people, they simply don't believe it is possible.

The Internet Archive is pretty awesome really. I did some work to convert Torley Wong's(sorry, no connection to Bitcoin) music library which was licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0(not my favourite license but still it allows legal download) http://archive.org/details/TorleyWong-TheFinalSelection---230DiverseMp3sConvertedToVorbis

Yeah, I also appreciate the wayback machine. Is also useful sometimes when replacing rotten/broken links on wikipedia.

Here it's possible to check donations in realtime https://blockchain.info/address/17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUvRq8R2r
Here you can confirm 100% that it is the same address so you can be at least 99% sure you are sending to the right address: https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#311

I donated 1 BTC. Now that webcitation.org is going down it seems the wayback machine will be the best way to keep wikipedia links from link rot.

I posted a message here: http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/desuracom-official-stance-on-purchases-with-bitcoin
I doubt I posted it in the right section but if you find a better place I can move it there.

There is also a poll attached to it. 1. "Yes I would like Bitcoin as an option" 2. "No I don't" and 3. "I don't care".

Also what do you think of the message? I'm fascinated by the Bitcoin technology so that's why I add words like proof of work, digital signatures(I have to stop myself from writing "Public key cryptography") and the P2P network that shares all the proofs of work called blocks.
Though I suspect these wordings can confuse people, or what do you think?

I didn't know about this! Though now I do. : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Public_relations

Have you made any effort to ask Desura what their standpoint on Bitcoin is? I'm thinking of doing this myself some time, maybe an email or a post on their forums.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=130597.0 -> "Buying games with Bitcoin - Does Desura have an official standpoint on Bitcoin?"

It would be worth 100 BTC if Desura officially accepted Bitcoin.

Hello all. Has anyone ever made contact with the Desura people about their position or if they would like to accept Bitcoin?
Posting this as I find few to no references on bitcointalk about it.

Note: To unite all gaming threads I just link to a general gaming thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17038.0

For the moment I'll post some references on bitcointalk from a user or users who have done some effort or claim to have done some, to contact the Desura company:

• posted April 16, 2011 by speeder https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4667.msg87650#msg87650

I'm sure I want to reply. Now...

One of the reasons I think that Jamendo.com ain't being honest is because they held my money for a very long time before they passed it on to the artist I donated to!
I sent a donation in 2009 to the artist StrangeZero using the donate button on Jamendo.com and I had to wait 9 months and 2 weeks for it to arrive. Is this anyone else's experience as well? Of course nowadays I wouldn't use Euros or Dollars to donate but Bitcoins.

Is there any reason you think we should let Jamendo.com be the 'middleman' in donations? I advise contact the artists, and ask if they want to accept Bitcoin. Now for Jamendo I think it may be better donating to them separately.
I've contacted 1 artist so far. I have a vague memory that some artist on Jamendo accepted Bitcoins, but I think I didn't pay much attention because I didn't like what they released. It was not Bert Jerred?(calm guitar music)

Right! I posted a message on the Jamendo forum. http://forum.jamendo.com/index.php?p=/discussion/12000962/donating-in-bitcoinsbtc-to-artists-on-jamendo
I've also contacted 2 artists about Bitcoin. I only contact artists whose music I like and whom I may consider donating to.

By the way this is an excellent place to post your questions, your praise and anything else you want to express about Bitcoin!
So for a start why don't you tell us a bit about Bitcoin, like...
How did you learn about Bitcoin? (a friend, internet browsing?)
Then also do you know how Bitcoin works? Are you curious to learn about how it works?(what role does the blockchain play in Bitcoin? What is a digital signature?)
Personally I learnt about Bitcoin when looking up a system called Ripple Monetary System, during that time I learnt about something called Bitcoin, but I didn't know what it was so I looked it up. I also studied computer networks for 2 years so there we learnt about Public key Cryptography and that helped me understand Bitcoin. Though I learnt about proof of work on my own which is also part of Bitcoin.

Then you must know how Bitcoin works?
What does proof of work and public key cryptography have to do with Bitcoin? Are Bitcoins encrypted and signed or are they only encrypted or only signed, and why?

When I send Bitcoins to you, are they stored on your computer or are they stored somewhere else, and if yes, where?

You don't have to answer these, but you said it yourself you've been around for about 1 year and you sounded very self-confident, so I got curious of your knowledge and if you know Bitcoin the cryptocurrency.

I just want to say that this is the first service where I really see some use for my Bitcoins. Now that I see that my Bitcoin balance starts going down I'm beginning to like it(that I have a use for them that I find fulfils a real day-to-day need!).
Note: By the way if there is any of your precious time left to look into the multilingual Greek issue that I had with an sms that I sent in Greek but where everything turned up as question marks, here's some Greek that I hope may help in solving it: Καλημέρα παιδιά!

Great service!

Ok, this isn't a huge problem for me though as I can write Greek in latin letters as well, and that's how I send my sms'es for the moment.
A few moments ago I queued an sms and I sent the bitcents required to pay for the sms but it says that it has not arrived yet.
My payment has already been included in 5 blocks at the moment. All my previous payments have worked but not this one.

Though now it's recognized the payment. I was just worried that so many blocks had passed and that it would cancel my sms.
Now though it worked and that's great! 

Maybe there is already a thread about this. 44*10 minutes. 440 minutes divided by 60. In 7.3 hours. The clock here is now 10.12 so statistically it would be completed in 18:00 in my country. Now this is just rough math.

So in short: In about 8 hours block 210000 will have been created. Is it the 210001th block that will have a value of 25 bitcoins while block 210000 will have the value of 50, or will both have a value of 25 BTC?

Hmm, but that could be done on a voluntary basis. Let's say you wanna receive PM's encrypted. What you can do is post a link to your public key in your signature, then ask people to send you PM's only GPG/PGP encrypted and maybe signed. That way those who want encryption and signatures can do it. Those who don't want to do it, they just don't participate in this. If you like you can start a separate topic like "using PGP/GPG for PMs. Post if you want to participate" then people can post who are interested to PM with encryption and/or signatures using public key cryptography and then it's settled. What do you think about it and everyone else what do you think about this?

Using Tor is like using curtains on your windows. You don't necessarily hide something illegal but the reason you use curtains is to maintain your privacy. Same goes for Tor.