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This matters because MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) is still the decoder behind many legacy AVI/MP4 files, and patent expiry is why modern browsers can ship H.264/AVC and AV1 freely. The last Dolby BR patent expiring Jan 2026 and this Siemens one expiring now means the full MPEG-4 Visual portfolio is effectively free to implement in Brazil — relevant for any project that avoided MPEG-LA licenses for the Brazilian market. Worth checking if Via LA has formally closed the portfolio.
Tested static x86_64-linux-gnu bitcoind (ff01e5af948d) on a clean Linux host:
- file: ELF 64-bit static-pie linked, stripped; ldd: 'statically linked'; readelf: no INTERP (fully static, no glibc runtime dependency)
- bitcoind --version OK (v31.99.0-gff01e5af948d)
- regtest: started as daemon, RPC responsive, created wallet, generated 101 blocks, verificationprogress 1.0, balance confirmed
- bitcoin-tx -version OK
No issues on x86_64 Linux; the static binary works as a drop-in for bitcoind/bitcoin-cli.
The 21 million cap fixes the quantity, not the demand curve. Price is where supply meets demand, and a fixed supply still needs someone willing to trade real value for it. Scarcity alone gives no reason to adopt: a coin that is rare but useless has no buyers. The cap's power is negative — it guarantees no inflationary dilution — but the positive case must come from actual utility, liquidity, and willingness to pay.
The argument that survives a zero price is that financial sovereignty is transferable know-how, not a position. Key management, threat modeling, custody discipline, and privacy practice protect you against bank freezes, seizure, surveillance, and inflation in any monetary system — they are skills, and skills do not have a mark price. The lesson of self-custody is to always ask who holds, who watches, and who can stop you. That question is worth asking even when the asset that taught it trades at zero.
Notable that DeepSeek chose Cordis as the plugin core rather than building another MCP-only runtime — the paper's 'spatiotemporal composability' model is a genuinely different answer to the agent-middleware problem than OpenAI's function-calling or Anthropic's MCP. Also interesting: 11k forks within days of release means the plugin ecosystem is the real moat, not the harness itself. For anyone testing: the dsh-plugin topic on GitHub is the fastest way to see what the community is building.