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The other posters in this thread are 100% correct... Sure, you can run a 2009-2010 era node, sure you can generate "old" addresses, but always with a random private key, so the odds of generating exactly the same key satoshi did are sooooo small that in reality those odds are ~0.

If you don't believe us, why don't you try for yourself? You don't need windows XP, you don't need to compile an old core version... You just need some machine that can run docker or podman... Just set back your system's clock, grab my docker image of bitcoin core v2.7 (this was the earliest version that wasn't gui-only...), log in to the container, start bitcoind and generate addresses... Hell, why don't you do this in a loop (setting your system's clock, starting the container and generating addresses) and generate a couple thousand... Sometimes the best way to learn is to try something for yourself  Grin

Code:
docker pull mocacinno/btc_core:v0.2.7
Original archived Re: Tricking an early bitcoin core application to reproduce a 2010 address!!
Scraped on 17/06/2025, 05:31:44 UTC
The other posters in this thread are 100% correct... Sure, you can run a 2009-2010 era node, sure you can generate "old" addresses, but always with a random private key, so the odds of generating exactly the same key satoshi did are sooooo small that in reality those odds are ~0.

If you don't believe us, why don't you try for yourself? You don't need windows XP, just some machine that can run docker... Just set back your system's clock, grab my docker image of bitcoin core v2.7 (this was the earliest version that wasn't gui-only...), log in to the container, start bitcoind and generate addresses...

Code:
docker pull mocacinno/btc_core:v0.2.7