15 Years Since Bitcoin's Infamous Bug That Created 184 Billion BTC

Zak Cole, blockchain engineer and entrepreneur, recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to remind the crypto community of a major flaw in Bitcoins historyknown as the value overflow incident. On August 15, 2010, just over a year after Bitcoins launch, a bug in block 74638 generated a staggering 184,467,440,737 BTC BTC - $83287.338 far exceeding Bitcoins intended 21 million supply cap.

Source: tokenpost.com

Related symbols: BTCUSD

2025-03-30 07:14:03 GMT.

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Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2010. Users are able to generate BTC through the process of mining. Bitcoin has a current supply of 19,846,543. The last known price of Bitcoin is 82,564.55531196 USD and is up 1.31 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 12006 active market(s) with $42,213,495,608.06 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://bitcoin.org/.