The Humble Indie Bundle Bitcoin experiment netted less than 0.1% of total sales
After the thrilling success of Reddit’s big Bitcoin bash, it’s no secret that the bitcoin economy is paper thin. Nevertheless, the Humble Indie Bundle was harassed enough by Reddit to decide to accept Bitcoins as payment. This was heralded as a “wonderful achievement” by the community and just more proof that Bitcoin’s economy was as strong as ever.
So how did they do? Not so well, actually.
A whopping 1/10th of a percent of sales. At least they were generous with their internet fun bux.
John Andersson
June 1, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
Can’t spend space credits now, they’ll just get more and more valuable. To infinite growth and beyond!
Funny Money
June 2, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
And because the Humble Bundle is donationware, 0.1% of the sales volume means that a few early adopters of Bitcoin donated much more than the average buyer. Because it’s funny internet money and trying to sell it now will crash the market.
Don Kongo
August 13, 2013 @ 2:21 am
…isn’t that rather a raging success for bitcoins, I’d never have guessed it was popular to be used by 1 in every 1000 people, that’s a LOT.