A bug led to the accidental creation of 184 billion #BTC in 2010, known as the value overflow incident.

in duedextrivia •  3 years ago 

Satoshi himself or another developer fixed the error within 5 hours of its occurrence by releasing a patched Bitcoin client (version 0.3.10) which ignored the excess coins.

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