Title: Portable Bitcoin Client Post by: MoonShadow on August 13, 2010, 11:04:02 PM I need a portable bitcoin client, one that can reside entirely on a USB thumbdrive. I would prefer to be able to run under both GNU/Linux or Windoze, but Windoze I need.
Can the client reach out from within a network, even if the ports are blocked? Is it possible to configure a client to reach out using a different port number and succeed? I can use port 443 almost anywhere, but the high ports are blocked in most of the places that I can get Internet service in public. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Title: Re: Portable Bitcoin Client Post by: Insti on August 14, 2010, 10:47:29 AM You can already run entirely from the USB drive using the -datadir command line parameter.
I don't know if you can specify alternate ports yet, there has been discussion about implementing this, but you can proxy through an arbitrary port. See: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=man_page for more information. Title: Re: Portable Bitcoin Client Post by: Tilka on August 16, 2010, 02:17:26 PM You can specify the data directory using scripts (AFAIK you can't use a shortcut on Windows because it requires an absolute path to the .exe).
Shell script for Linux (make executable with "chmod a+x scriptname"): Code: #!/bin/sh Batch script for Windows (save as *.bat or *.cmd): Code: bitcoin -datadir=.\data If you know how to do it, you can also apply gavinandresen's port/rpcport patch (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=589.0) or wait for it to be included in the official client (may take a while). Title: Re: Portable Bitcoin Client Post by: lfm on August 17, 2010, 01:39:35 AM I need a portable bitcoin client, one that can reside entirely on a USB thumbdrive. I would prefer to be able to run under both GNU/Linux or Windoze, but Windoze I need. Can the client reach out from within a network, even if the ports are blocked? Is it possible to configure a client to reach out using a different port number and succeed? I can use port 443 almost anywhere, but the high ports are blocked in most of the places that I can get Internet service in public. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Consider the alternative of mybitcoin.com. It is a client portable to any web browser. You could keep the account/password in your head instead of on a stick. If you want to transact with another mybitcoin account the transaction is immediate too. Title: Re: Portable Bitcoin Client Post by: MoonShadow on August 17, 2010, 03:38:16 AM Consider the alternative of mybitcoin.com. It is a client portable to any web browser. You could keep the account/password in your head instead of on a stick. If you want to transact with another mybitcoin account the transaction is immediate too. I already have a mybitcoin.com account, but I'd still like to have one running one my thumbdrive. And now I do, thanks to the many suggestions that I have already received. |