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A bug creates 184 billion BTC and the chain is rewound

August 15, 2010

A transaction in block 74,638 exploited an integer overflow to create more than 184 billion bitcoin out of nothing. Within hours a fixed version of the software was released and the network reorganised onto a chain without the transaction. It remains the most serious bug in Bitcoin's history.

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