Big Barry Bitcoin on Nostr: The earliest wallets were baked into the Bitcoin core software. It would generate ...
The earliest wallets were baked into the Bitcoin core software. It would generate private and public key pairs and save them in a file called Wallet.dat
I think this file could be password protected.
There were no seed words. Those were developed and standardised after.
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2025-04-29 13:25:07Event JSON
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