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Strange block 74638
Jeff Garzik posts the first public alert of the value-overflow incident, sharing the raw block data for #74638 with two outputs of 92,233,720,368.54277039 BTC each.
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Value overflow incident — 184 billion BTC created in Block 74638
An integer overflow (CVE-2010-5139) let Block 74638 create 184 billion BTC. Satoshi released a fix 5h 40m after discovery; the fixed chain overtook the bad one about 15 hours after the block.
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Bitcoin v0.3.10 - overflow bug emergency fix
Emergency release of Bitcoin v0.3.10 to fix a value overflow vulnerability exploited to create 184 billion bitcoins in a single transaction. Satoshi coordinated the rapid soft-fork deployment.
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knightmb: The Man Who Saved Bitcoin's Worst Day, And The Legend That Swallowed Him
The August 2010 overflow recovery rested on knightmb's snapshot. Secondary sources have since attached a misattributed 10%-holder claim and a contested Tennessee identification to the same handle.
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184 billion BTC in one block: a centralization paradox, a soft-fork rescue and a five-hour response
How the 2010-08-15 overflow incident unfolded: the soft-fork rescue, why a 5-hour response was possible only then, what the transactions themselves show, and the centralization paradox.
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Eric Swanson — lachesis, who built the mining calculator Satoshi thanked him for
As lachesis on BitcoinTalk in 2010, Eric Swanson built the mining calculator Satoshi thanked him for, found an RPC bug Satoshi fixed in rev 110, and read block 74638's strange value as INT64_MAX.
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knightmb — Node operator whose blockchain snapshot seeded the 2010 overflow-bug recovery
Pseudonymous early Bitcoin user who ran one of the largest 2010 nodes and hosted public blockchain snapshots. His snapshot seeded Gavin Andresen's recovery patch after the value overflow incident.