Super obscure #Bitcoin question.

What patent were bitcoiners eagerly waiting to expire?

hit:2020

Trying to understand how old @ElectrumWallet seeds were encoded.

What's going on here?

The only part that i get is that it transfroms x in base16.

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/1.9.8/lib/mnemonic.py#L1659

https://void.cat/d/PrLF8XGRCxQpdkkfswVyrA.webp