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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Merits 10 from 3 users
Re: Problems with Bitcoins Mined in 2009
by
kaggie
on 22/06/2022, 07:39:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by NeuroticFish (5) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,Halab (2)
I have some bitcoin addresses mined in 2009 with problems.

Public Key is outdated, no satoshi-era updates to current protocols have been made.

everything is still in 32 bit..

I can't spend the btcs this way.

"Public Key is outdated" - Public keys from 2009 are still valid.

"no satoshi-era updates to current protocols have been made" - Old addresses would still work. Bitcoin core has made updates to the protocols but they remain backwards compatible. That is no small feat to maintain compatibility, but one that I hope continues for a very long time.

"everything is still in 32 bit.." - Bitcoin keys have only ever been in 64 bit.