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+# bitcoind
+
+## Important Source Files
+
+- **bitcoind.cpp** - the main entry point, `main()` resides here. This calls
+  `Appinit()`.
+
+  - `AppInit()` also resides here, it eventually ends up calling AppInit2()
+    which is the most important entry point for what we're doing. AppInit2()
+    will be the handler of `$ bitcoind -server -daemon`.
+
+- **init.cpp** - `AppInit2()` resides here - this functions ends up calling
+  `StartNode()` which spawns all of the threads for network activity (accepts
+  the main `threadGroup`).
+
+- **net.cpp** - `StartNode()` resides here - starts all network threads.
+
+- **main.cpp** - misnamed file which handles all packet handling, framing and
+  parsing.
+
+## Plan of Action
+
+### First Pass
+
+- Successfully link to bitcoind from our, currently barebones, c++ binding.
+- Expose one function from the c++ binding which essentially starts all the
+  net.cpp threads and starts downloading the block chain and connecting to
+  peers.
+
+### Second Pass
+
+- Start exposing more functions - a fully function bitcoin library
+- Reconcile the issues that may arise making certain calls async (libuv thread pool vs. bitcoind threads?)
+
+## Hurdles
+
+- If we expect people to install and compile this, on one core on an i5,
+  bitcoind takes roughly 30 minutes to compile.
+
+``` bash
+git clean -xdf
+git checkout v0.9.0
+date | tee compile_time; ./autogen.sh
+./configure --with-incompatible-bdb
+make; date | tee -a compile_time
+cat compile_time
+Wed Aug 13 14:38:14 CDT 2014
+Wed Aug 13 15:07:49 CDT 2014
+```