Thanks for your write up. I'm running into issues getting beem installed, hope you can help. This is on my Windows 10 system. Thanks.

•  crypto_aes.c
  scrypt-1.2.1/libcperciva/crypto/crypto_aes.c(6): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'openssl/aes.h': No such file or directory
  error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
  [end of output]
  

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for scrypt
  Failed to build scrypt
  ERROR: Could not build wheels for scrypt, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects*