I think I figured it out.
I tried the win64 last night and it didn't work out of the box. It didn't sync with the network, possibly due to my firewall, not sure. So I tried connecting directly to my buddy's node using the Debug Console with the command:

addnode "34.127.37.138" onetry

There's gotta be a way to add nodes in the config file but I'm not there yet.
Manually adding nodes feels like a real peer-to-peer cryptocurrency :-)

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