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False Claims Circulate About Unlocking Satoshi’s 1.1M Bitcoin

Rumors on social media misstate the security of early Bitcoin holdings, which use older key formats predating seed phrase standards.

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Terms & Concepts
  • BIP39: A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal introduced in 2013 that defines how mnemonic seed phrases are generated and used for wallet recovery.
  • P2PK keys: Pay-to-Public-Key, an early Bitcoin transaction format where funds are sent directly to a public key instead of a hashed address.