17:20 ok so i have a fancy shmancy linux wifi dongle with an extended antenna. i am rocking the millenial software hobbyist. the reason for this is that i am outdoors. downloaded a blockchain will be hard. it's 17:20 ! 17:21 i build my blockchain nodes from source. I do not question this. Nor should you. Maybe I have some source for bitcoin core somewhere here already. 17:21 let's check their website the bitcoin project is ridiculous like ????? . i think when i'm on their dev list, that i must be on like a fake list to put worrisome people on or something. it makes no sense. maybe i just haven't put my 2020 trolldar on properly. bitcoin is at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin it's 17:23 blargh if i do this i will have to spend like $50 to pin a 'hello world' msg won't i no! it will likely be less! like maybe $49! it's 17:24 and i'm cloning a git repository. this reminds me there are other repos on my cloning queue. it's 17:25 let's talk about chatbots. not _real_ chatbots. language model bots. no, wait, maybe let's not. it's 17:25 and my clone is 97% done. 99% . yayishness. 17:25 . nowadays when i want to figure out what branch to build, i do `git tag` and look for the latest tagged release, (v22.0 here maybe), then i do `git branch --all --contains <tag>` to figure out what their release branch is. 22.x it's 17:27 and libtoolize is copying files. (part of autotools) i wonder if i'll need to install a funny version of an old library that was satoshi-era like often happens. 17:28 `make -j8`. configure output looked fine, i think they changed the wallet format to sql to focus and reuse effort better. this will take a while, but maybe in 8 months i'll remember this goal and have a bitcoin client already built! hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm maybe i should install a binary format. i probably don't have their glibc on this silly rhel7 system. hrm. hrm. hrm. well i made the funny code mutation! that's a success. i could also run it in a vm or something. maybe it will be done building soon! i can write random things here while i wait. maybe i can give it half an hour. 17:30 the plan is to build bitcoin, and sync the blockchain, in like 30 seconds, on an old system. in 30 seconds, once the blockchain is synced, i can uhhhh what was i doing. i can broadcast an op return transaction! omygoodnesso! only 30 seconds. when the blockchain is synced. after the client is built. OR! or. I could upload the transaction to a 3rd party service! i bet blockchain explorers let you broadcast transactons! maybe! maybe! so there's another option. i guess ... using the existing ..... uh-oh ! inner issues! hmm. 17:33 i'm kind of drfiting, i'll send this off