I am definitely going to put more time on this.

bataroot

I feel it's the perfect storm for me. After wasting time building a testnet environment on a spare Raspberry Pi and its Debian distro, only for dealing with compilation errors and a daemon that fails intermittently.

I ordered a secondhand HP ProLiant DL360p G8 with enough RAM and disk space to install experimentation VMs. The first thing will be NixOS and https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin

LFG 🚀

I'm typing this on a nix distro right now. I'm still learning, but the possibilities are amazing.