Soomster, I see your MacOSX issue.  One thing we have found is that kid did not have yml files for MacOSX to properly build gitian builds for it.  We have built a verison for MacOSx but it had some crash issues.  I believe Slax0r is working on it.  I have a macbook as well, but I suck at compiling anything except on Linux...I will try to put some time in it for you, maybe 50% of our nodes are all Macs!

I also am trying to identify the issue with the initial startup crash (when you don't have anything yet).  I reviewed the code and the fix is in, so I am not sure what causes this issue at the moment.  But restarting the client the 2nd time fixes the issues.  That is aggravating.