Re: Tricking an early bitcoin core application to reproduce a 2010 address!!
If I install a really old Bitcoin Core on old pc with Windows XP (offline), set the system clock to 2010, could it trick the software into generating the same address/private key as an early miner's wallet (e.g., one that mined 50 BTC in 2010 and lost his wallet 
)?
)?No, it has a fail safe system that will not allow us to do this. As even if you run those really old Bitcoin Core, the generation process relies on entropy and not your system clock. And even new addresses is created with a new set of private key, meaning even if you go back and used old software, it won't generate old addresses.