I'm not informed as much as I could be about bitcoins, but it's comments like these that make it even more daunting. Slow learning curve I guess.

What happens when the number of bitcoin transactions becomes too great for the network to handle? There is a finite number of computers, they can only process so many transactions at a time. If bitcoin became as popular as the US dollar, would there be enough nodes out there to handle a load of that magnitude? Or, for a more specific example: tomorrow every monetary transaction in the US is done using bitcoin, what happens?

I did appreciate your subtle sarcasm though. A++