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 
)?
)?I the addresses were generated only with the date that would be possible, but since other factors are involved, then the chance to generate an address that has been used is the same chance than doing it with the current date.
You could even try to bruteforce and generate millions of addresses but the odds of creating a used address is still really low. It doesn't even worth trying it.