I have fine luck with my decade+ old Dell latitude CPx, P3 500 mhz running windows 2000 with a screen resolution of 1024x768.

It does not have an ethernet port, but since it is offline, that is ok.  It has a USB 1 jack, but with the small files sizes, that is no problem.

I am following by going to a local pub and getting the fish and chips.  It is a partial British experience.

The Econtalk Podcast show (the same one that did an episode on bitcoin) touched on this a while back.  

Russ compared a very talented person in Nepal to a lazy untalented teenage babysitter.  The teenager made spectacularly more than a high skill individual.  His theory was that the number of people the Nepalese could trade with was much smaller than Americans.  Because of this, there is limited opportunity for specialization of trade in Nepal.  The wages cannot be bid up, since there is not enough trade to specialize.  Wages are dependent on productivity, and not specializing will make you relatively unproductive.


Bitcoin making trade easier, will help to bring wages closer together by allowing specilization.  There are still a lot of other barriers to trade, but money transfer is one that bitcoin would help with.

I highly recommend this episode: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/02/roberts_on_smit.html




For reference, the bitcoin episode: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html

i have never used the fastcash4bitcoins.com website, but I have used bitinstant.  The guys there have been very helpful

A teller at a bank messed up my deposit a little.  The bitinstant team was able to fix the transaction very quickly, and on the weekend too.

I saw that too and was scratching my head.

i have mostly been communicating via email, but I have an issue that could be resolved publicly.

I have been helping etotheipi with debugging his Armory project since early June.

Greetings internet.  Longtime reader, first time caller.