Bitcoin History Part 10: The 184 Billion BTC Bug

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Bitcoin History Part 10: The 184 Million BTC BugThere was something unusual about Bitcoin block 74638. It was Core developer Jeff Garzik who first spotted it, commenting on the “quite strange” transaction outputs, which stood at 92233720368.54 BTC apiece. That wasn’t meant to happen. Within an hour, another forum user had started a thread titled “overflow bug serious” in which he implored “We […]

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