Bitcoin Core Deleting Wallets

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In this video, I discuss the latest bug that was found in the malware that is Bitcoin Core 30. This bug ends up deleting all of your Bitcoin Core wallets when you attempt to migrate a legacy wallet.

One fix is to downgrade to Bitcoin Core 29, but a better solution is just to run Bitcoin Knots.

Here's how to spin up a Bitcoin Knots node:

https://x.com/mattkratter/status/1976334106192658814
https://store.start9.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irW6CPObVVk
https://parmanode.com/
https://umbrel.com/
https://mynodebtc.com/

Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor.

Bitcoin Core changed 285,000 lines of code in 2025:
https://x.com/lopp/status/2007857053121855727

Wallet Migration bug present in Bitcoin Core wallet 30.0 & 30.1
https://x.com/bitcoincoreorg/status/2008284092983369886
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/01/05/wallet-migration-bug/

Bug reporting process is broken:
https://x.com/__B__T__C__/status/2008358998639055297
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/34128
https://x.com/GregTonoski/status/2008505693255684169

There were high hopes for Bitcoin Core 30:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5562380.0

Clarke Moody's Bitcoin Dashboard:
https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/

Bitcoin Core has a history of changing the documentation in order to define away bugs:
https://x.com/Horizon_btc/status/2008312118462890184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNmI37dgXg

Core 30 binaries taken down:
https://x.com/1440000bytes/status/2008321122832454039
https://bitcoincore.org/bin/

Fix coming soon?
https://x.com/fanquake/status/2008302540023034040
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2FBENLXIAITf2T?format=jpg&name=medium

Bitcoin Knots node count rising:
https://coin.dance/nodes/knots

The zen of Bitcoin Knots:
https://x.com/leo_haf/status/2008504521488793796

Bitcoin Knots does not contain this bug:
https://x.com/LukeDashjr/status/2008326237962277039

The "most skilled 200 people on the planet" missed this bug:
https://x.com/adam3us/status/1977307450341720440

Bitcoin Core 30 in action:
https://i.imgflip.com/7xouc5.jpg

Bitcoin Core 30 Is A CSAM Relay Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ti447teGAY

We don’t need “cool features” and updates every 6 months. Take your time and make sure that the code is up to par for a 2 trillion dollar asset:
https://x.com/CatoTheElder17/status/2008331952848277619

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