Protocol · August 15, 2010
184 billion BTC value-overflow exploit
Price at event
$0.07
Today
$73,594
Since then
×1051343
An attacker exploits an integer-overflow bug to mint 184,467,440,737 BTC in block 74,638. Satoshi releases v0.3.10 within hours; the chain is forked back. The first and last time the supply cap was ever broken.
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