Doesen't swap wear the SD card?

How do you mean "run bitcoind from git"?

I just built picocoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128055.msg2014606#msg2014606:

> sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libjansson-dev automake libglib2.0-dev
> wget https://github.com/jgarzik/picocoin/archive/master.zip
> unzip master.zip
> cd picocoin-master
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make

It doesn't have payment yet, so hold your horses but this could be what I'm looking for!