{"id":66779,"date":"2026-01-07T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66779"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:46:31","slug":"can-bitcoin-holders-lose-all-their-funds-due-to-a-tech-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66779","title":{"rendered":"Can Bitcoin Holders Lose All Their Funds Due To A &#8220;Tech Upgrade&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bitcoincoreorg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bitcoin Core<\/a>, the main software used by most full Bitcoin nodes, recently released versions 30.0 and 30.1 and it came with a warning that peaked people&#8217;s interests on Tuesday. In the absolute worse case scenario, investors actually could lose their funds.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOTICE: Wallet Migration bug present in Bitcoin Core wallet 30.0 &amp; 30.1.<\/p>\n<p>Under rare circumstances, migrating a legacy (BDB) wallet can delete all wallet files on the same node. If those wallets aren&#8217;t backed up, this can result in a loss of funds.<\/p>\n<p>A fix will become available in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Core Project (@bitcoincoreorg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitcoincoreorg\/status\/2008284092983369886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">These releases included a change to the wallet migration process \u2014 the code that helps users upgrade old wallet formats into the latest versions. It contained a <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoincore.org\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/wallet-migration-bug\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">wallet migration bug<\/a> that could delete local wallet files and permanently lock users out of their funds if there are no backups. In a worse case, that means their Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>)  gone.<\/p>\n<p>The wallet migration bug discovered in Bitcoin Core this week is a classical case of a hard-to-catch software error. It\u2019s insignificant for Bitcoin as a whole because it\u2019s not a consensus bug and not a network vulnerability. Bitcoin is alive and well, and still seen approaching $100,000 again this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Developers have pulled the affected versions for now until a fixed version is released. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/Opinion\/26\/01\/49767811\/can-bitcoin-holders-lose-all-their-funds-due-to-a-tech-upgrade?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Can\" bitcoin holders lose all their funds due to a upgrade>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Core, the main software used by most full Bitcoin nodes, recently released versions 30.0 and 30.1 and it came with a warning that peaked people&#8217;s interests on Tuesday. In the absolute worse case scenario, investors actually could lose their funds. NOTICE: Wallet Migration bug present in Bitcoin Core wallet 30.0 &amp; 30.1. Under rare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-66779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}