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.