Bitcoin: a software bug created 184 billion tokens in 2010

On August 15, 2010, a major flaw in Bitcoin's source code allowed the creation of 184 billion bitcoins in seconds.

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This critically severe vulnerability could have destroyed trust in the nascent first cryptocurrency.

The bug was fixed and remains a notable episode in blockchain history.

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