Can Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet be restored with 24 mnemonic phrases?
Not very likely.
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The reasons are as follows:
✅ 1. Mnemonic phrases are the standard after BIP39
• The commonly seen "restoring wallet with 24 mnemonic phrases" is based on BIP39 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 39), which was proposed in 2013 and gradually became popular.
• Satoshi Nakamoto mined and created a wallet as early as 2009, and **at that time, the concept of BIP39 did not exist.
• So it is very likely that he used the original private key/public key pair generation method (for example, WIF format private keys), rather than a wallet generated through seed + mnemonic phrases.
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✅ 2. Satoshi Nakamoto used the original Bitcoin Core
• He used the earliest version of Bitcoin software (Bitcoin 0.1), at that time wallets stored private keys using wallet.dat files, and did not have the currently popular hierarchical deterministic wallet (HD Wallet) structure.
• So if you have a wallet from Satoshi Nakamoto's era, you can only restore it through backing up the private key or wallet.dat file, not through mnemonic phrases.
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Summary:
Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet is an early format and cannot be restored using 24 mnemonic phrases.
He likely used an early private key storage method (non-HD wallet).
