Been living kinda Freebie for a while. Would suggest holding off until the battery/solar/free energy device arrives.

As for Bitcoin, i'm only just getting my head around the concept. Just spent a couple of days syncing with it.
BlockSize of 15gig.. and growing pretty quickly. As you say, it's still early days.

- Dark Wallet raised $52,075 of $50k goal..
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-dark-wallet"
We are skilled and experienced software developers who live for the freedom of the Internet."
https://darkwallet.unsystem.net/...
"
..libbitcoin is a programming library for bitcoin client functions. It's not a client unto itself, but makes the building
of clients easier and more uniform. Darkwallet is based on a libbitcoin/obelisk server."
- Explanation of how the components might fit together..
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322483.0"The [script] design supports a tremendous variety of possible transaction types that I designed years ago. Escrow transactions,
bonded contracts, third party arbitration, multi-party signature, etc. If Bitcoin catches on in a big way, these are things
we'll want to explore in the future, but they all had to be designed at the beginning to make sure they would be possible later."
(Satoshi, June 17, 2010)
- Discussion about alternative implementations of the Bitcoin protocol..
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30646.180- Sources..
https://github.com/spesmilo/https://github.com/darkwallet/...