Bitcoin is a decentralized Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, even if it can't run on a Raspberry Pi connected to a slow internet connection.
Bitcoin can run on 56k connexion ... with 4 incoming and 4 outside connexion and mining with P2Pool.Bitcoin is more awesome than P2P File Sharing possibilities.

it NEEDS to stay like that at whatever cost! we're going to cut out a whole class of users??? WHO CARES???
Bitcoin needs to run on 56k connexion ... with 4 incoming and 4 outside connexion and mining with P2Pool.this block size limt always gets me going! @!#*&!()@