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[POC] guix: produce a fully `-static-pie` bitcoind

Placeholder fanquake requested to merge github/fork/fanquake/fully_static_bitcoind into master

Use Guix to produce a fully -static-pie bitcoind using GCC 13.3.0 and glibc 2.35. The binary is ~18mb stripped, includes wallet/upnp/natpmp/zmq etc. This is currently done for x86_64-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu.

# file bitcoind
	ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), static-pie linked, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

# ldd bitcoind
	statically linked

-static-pie

Produce a static position independent executable on targets that support it. A static position independent executable is similar to a static executable, but can be loaded at any address without a dynamic linker.

Using glibc for static builds, would be less of a leap compared to switching to musl libc (POC in #23203).

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