Interesting discussion. I have a follow-up question with regard to importing the gpg keys:

- on goatpig's github, I see goatpig-signing-key.asc under the PublicKeys section - is this correct?

- where do we find the correct spelling for the Wladimir van der Laan key? On the bitcoincore website, it references an ubuntu server "gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 01EA5486DE18A882D4C2684590C8019E36C2E964" do we run this on Debian?


"***optional*** get the bitcoin.desktop file from https://github.com/bitcoin/contrib"
good to know - I have been running ./bitcoin-qt to run core. It would be nice to have an applications link.