Just adding that The Humble Bundle for Android 4 is over. I had thought about buying some extra "gifts" but well it only stayed as an idea. Maybe next time.

I contacted the people behind many games that were released in the bundle but I got no reply on their stance of me wishing to donate some Bitcoins...well it's their loss after all. I contacted at least the makers of Eufloria and Waking Mars. Still I enjoyed some of the games.
My favourite is I think Waking Mars, which also is a pretty stable game on linux(doesn't crash much often). This game reminds me somewhat about Aquaria in the physics and graphics aspect. Then there's the game Eufloria which also is pretty stable. A fun strategy game, but maybe a bit too challenging at times. It sure has it's beauty.

I know but this is some feedback for using the service.

I sent an SMS to someone in Greece with Greek characters παράδειγμα(example) and she said she only saw question marks. Though she saw the sender name I put in the sender field.
Can this service support letters from other languages like Russian, Greek or will the price double for that? I know that some cell phones I've used doubled the price when I typed characters that are not latin.

A little news: Some games got added to the bundle I already purchased today: Avadon: The Black Fortress, Canabalt, Cogs, Swords & Soldiers HD and Zen Bound 2. These games shouldn't have appeared as they show that one must pay above the average, although I don't feel that applies to me because I was and am ready to send them my 1 BTC once they open up donations in BTC.

Right, but that's clearly offtopic...This is what an employee of Humble Bundle inc. told me:
"We like BitCoin and would love to accept it, but after contacting the EFF" and you know how it goes. Let's show 'em we do care.

You know what? Join this campaign, all of you who like the Humble Bundle purchase it for 0.01 USD. Do what I did, I sent them an email explaining why I did so and also put a link to this thread.
If you send them dollars then maybe that proves you don't care enough and you are just "bought in" to the dollar.
Instead boycott(!) the dollar by sending minimum amounts (ie 0.01 USD) and link to this thread. Do what I did or do it your way, as long as you boycott USD, EUR etc. and ask them to support Bitcoin.
If they get enough of 0.01 USD's they'll soon know what they are losing out on when not accepting BTCs.

You may be discouraged, but think like this:
Q1: 10 users 0.01 USD, Q2: 100 users 0.01 USD, Q3: 1000 users 0.01 USD. Of course we may be masked by all those who don't want to give more than one penny, but HIB should know that accepting Bitcoin will give them huge incomes, no kidding because from that day I'll be thinking about what I owe them in Bitcoin(for bundles I gave 0.01 USD) and since I'm a linux user they should expect about double the average. I may not keep my 'personal debt' eternally but for at least the last 4-5 bundles, that's the plan.

Got a reply from someone at Humble Bundle and they said that they like Bitcoin and would like to accept it but because they contacted the EFF legal team they hesitate to get involved yet. They also said they are looking at working with Bitcoin startups and will be trying to learn more about Bitcoin in the future.

Note:I got no comments if I can publish the message they sent me nor any comment on my thread(this one!) here on bitcointalk. Still I have the feeling that if more people make a "boycott of the USD, EUR etc etc." when getting bundles by giving 0.01 USD as a donation, this may get noticed and ultimately Humble Bundle's interest may grow to start accepting Bitcoin.
Ontopic advertisement note: The Humble Bundle ends in about 7 days!

I'm contacting developers of the various games that are part of the bundle(but only games that I like and that DON'T crash for me on linux) to get out the message that there is 1 BTC(~10.90 USD) waiting for them as my appreciation of their work. For the moment my focus is on the EufloriaHD game.

This is what I sent the Humble indie Bundle team through email after buying the "Humble Bundle for Android 4" for 0.01 USD:

Many of the naysayers that don't understand Bitcoin believe it may crash at some point because they don't see how it gets its value.
For me it is valuable because I trust it is the first cryptocurrency introduced and also because I understand it, not to mention I trust people accept Bitcoin for services or goods.

Though the strongest reason I personally find it valuable is because I understand it uses like 3 things: P2Pnetworking(I think anyone can understand that, or at least if you think file-sharing networks), then the 2 harder parts are Proof of Work(think the hashcash idea presented for the antispam problem and yes it is used today to some extent) Proof of Work is used for generation of Bitcoins + to put a "stamp" making transactions valid doing a mathematical brute-force procedure whose result can be verified faster than the blink of an eye.
The last technology cryptography. Now this is the part that confuses many people, making some people falsely believe the Bitcoins get "encrypted". Only digital signatures are used from cryptography, and that's to sign transactions for BTC you want to send somewhere.

hmm, if it was portable like portableapps? Some programs are portable even if they are not part of portableapps. I remember some program that if you dropped a text file called "settings.txt" in the program folder it immediately started storing settings in the same folder. That would then make it portable and you could move it to your usb stick or other place. Yes the malware can try to search for bitcoins on a usb stick...

virtual machines for software you don't trust, though then you have to trust the virtual machine. I recommend the virtual machine to be free libre and open source. Though that won't be enough to trust it. Maybe you will need the developers or distributors public key. If you got a distro like Ubuntu it's in their software center so then your distro already have the relevant keys. Then just make sure that you trust that you got an "exact copy" of Ubuntu that everybody else got.
Do a checksum check, maybe download it through https? What else can I do?

I'm having a hard time navigating interesting stuff regarding ppl trading HIB for Bitcoin. I'll also try to list threads which are "dead ends" which have not developed for one reason or the other. People who act as middlemen/"middlewomen" for a purchase have so far been found under the "scams" section, let's hope the scams stop or somethin'. Just saving and I'm hoping for an update when I know more.

Multiple bundles:
by Lumpy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88223.0 "[WTS] Nearly complete HIB Collection, Six Indie Royale Bundles, Portal 1 and 2"
by Bananington https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62100.0 "[WTS] Humble Bundles for 0.6BTC each!/Steam Keys"

Humble Bundle for Android(Released Jan 31, 2012)
by Qoheleth https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62081.msg724816

Humble Indie Bundle 6(Released Sep 18, 2012)
by Mr. Coinman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113403.0 "Humble Indie Bundle 6 Steam Key"

Humble Indie Bundle 7(Released Dec 19, 2012)
CLOSED in marketplace by vuce https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133622.0 "[CLOSED] Humble Indie Bundle 7"

'dead ends':
by corvid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84722.0 "Successful purchase of Humble Bundle V from Qoheleth"
by corvid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63309.0 "Successful transaction with Qoheleth"

"scams"
by crusadar https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34833.0 "Humble Bundle Embezzlement"
by SHlFT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32555.0 "Want a HumbleBundle?! Buy with Bitcoins!"
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Also, I'm considering doing a donation of the least amount of USD/EUR in disapproval of HIB not yet accepting Bitcoin. I'm considering to also send them an email explaining my position without expecting a reply, just explaining why I'll give them the least amount for HIB7(if it gets released).

Some user here I've read will boycott HIB completely but I think it's best to do some kind of action and donating the least amount will give them a strong message(even if it doesn't I don't care, their loss!) instead of just not doing anything. In all instances I'll of course notify them of my thinking and explanations of why Bitcoin and cryptocurrency really is something to accept.

Not trust anybody? I may sometime in the future want to buy a HIB for Bitcoin in the future from someone on the forum. Of course I can't trust somebody 100% I agree with that. I may trust someone though with something from 1 to 10 bitcents but still I will evaluate if I trust the person.

Maybe it would be smart to have a locked safe, but nothing in there. When the thief comes they steal your whole safe and take it with them only to find it is empty once he/she cracks it open at home.
Then you as a smart person has a usb stick somewhere that nobody else would even dream of where it could be.

I don't say you should use this technique, because if everybody used it then the thief would not look for the safe, but though again you could be fooling around and then have it in the safe, making the thief look stupid(while he/she avoids searching the safe).

What about that combined key thing, where for example your key from your cell phone gets combined with the key from your computer bitcoin client key into one whole that signs important transactions?
I think it has been implemented in bitcoind, but how to use it in an easy to understand way? I don't know. Isn't that called "Multisignature transactions"

I think the guide to being secure doesn't need to be complex at all, though I don't know if the required technologies are available to write such a simple guide.

For example I think that an offline computer can send money without being connected to the internet. You just use your signing keys(you must also know manually how much bitcoins you have beforehand, without having any blockchain around. Here you can use blockchain.info to check that up, advised to access it through Tor. Then since you know how much you have, you use your private key on that offline computer and sign a transaction. Then you transfer that transaction with a usb key storage to your main computer which may be virus and trojan+keylogger infested and just execute the transaction. Voila!

Though are these technologies available. We would need a very simple program, one that doesn't like need the latest version of Ubuntu, not the full fledged bitcoin-qt, except if it can work in offline mode and it can allow to send Bitcoins without needing an internet connection.

The above are maybe a bit of half-baked thoughts.

Reading at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77449.0 I got inspired to contact(I sent them an email) the Humble Bundle team to say that my intention is still the same. I will donate/buy with Bitcoins only regarding the HIB.

I also added the hints of the two basic core technologies that Bitcoin is made up of: Public key cryptography and something like hashcash(I forgot to refer to it as "Proof of Work", argh). Anyway I'm not expecting this to make any difference but at least they got +1 email from some user at bitcointalk that they wish to purchase HIB with Bitcoin.

I just remember one thing. Usually the bitcoins can be found in the .bitcoin folder. I think that may become a problem as malicious programs may want to steal my wallet. I really don't have a solution to this yet...

If I use another program it may be stored somewhere else. I would like to have an option to select manually where my bitcoin settings folder is so that malware can't use that technique to find my bitcoin settings folder. Any other way?

Otherwise I'll have to trust ALL software on my computer to not try stealing my wallet in my .bitcoin/.multibit folders. I'll be forced to use the encryption feature in Bitcoin then and I am also forced to make up and remember a passphrase. Argh.

So you trusted that forum member. See? We can see when we trust someone and it isn't strange. The "trust no one" just doesn't work...If you are using your computer you have at least a part of trust somewhere, else you would be afraid that your computer will explode every second or something and that's irrational fear. Anyone who follows "trust no one" strictly is probably dead right now.

List of companies that have contributed to the bundles over the months/years and their stance:
Capybara Games, 2013-01-18, "Unfortunately we do not accept Bitcoin as payment."

I don't have any Humble Indie Bundles at all and I thought of one use case of using Bitcoin to buy them, or at least HIB6 which got Torchlight and Rochard.
I'm on linux(Ubuntu) and I would like HIB6 for that system. I don't know if anyone is selling but why don't you add a comment if you've bought the humble indie bundle or if you want to sell one? If this is not the right place just add a comment if you are interested in buying the HIB with bitcoins and we can see how many we are...

Editing this post with the idea to put links to past bundles and if any game dev was interested:

• The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146101.0
• Humble Bundle with Android 5 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149675.msg1589730

Then do you trust in an OS that requires anti-virus software to stay relatively safe? I assume you use Windows, do you?