Recently, I've seen many people claiming that 10 out of 12 mnemonic phrases in Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet have been cracked, suggesting an imminent brute-force attack. Let me tell you directly, that's completely false.

First and foremost: Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet does not have a mnemonic phrase at all. Why? Because the timeline doesn't match. When Satoshi mined the genesis block in January 2009, the BIP39 standard didn't exist yet. This mnemonic phrase scheme was only proposed in 2013. Think about it—back then, Bitcoin was still in its very early days. Satoshi used the original Bitcoin Core client, and the wallet file was simply wallet.dat, which stored private keys directly. There was no recovery mechanism using mnemonic phrases.

So, how were Satoshi's bitcoins distributed? That's an even more interesting topic. Early blocks have a clear characteristic: from block 1 to block 36 (except for block 9), they all carry the "fingerprint" of the same mining machine, called the "Patoshi pattern." The total reward for blocks mined by Satoshi is about 1,125,150 BTC, most of which have never been moved.

More importantly, these bitcoins are spread across over 22,000 different addresses, but almost certainly controlled by the same entity using a few early wallets. Because these coins have never moved and their public keys have never been exposed, there's no need to worry about quantum computing cracking them. Satoshi's wallet is managed via wallet.dat format private keys, not mnemonic phrases—these are two completely different things.

So, don't fall for these rumors anymore. Some people might just be trying to scare newbies and create panic.