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If miners decided the rules of the #Bitcoin network, we would still be mining 50 BTC block rewards. During the very first halving, some miners didn’t agree with the concept of the halving and created their own fork that still rewarded 50 BTC. It was an expensive lesson.
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MoldBoy 2y ago

In 2010 the txo was exploited to allow 184,467,440,737.09551616 BTC created in a single block. #bitcoin 🙃

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Jon 2y ago

Wasn't that a bug and not an exploit?

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MoldBoy 2y ago

There wasn’t any check for txout values that were negative so it was an exploited bug. It’s also when the 21 million money cap MAX_MONEY was invented, to help future possible exploits of excessively large integers. Originally #bitcoin had no cap on money supply.