Bitcoin Daily Dose: 5-8-25

History: Bitcoin Protocol Bug, 15 Aug 2010

An unknown individual exploits a flaw in how computers handle numbers, crafting a fake transaction that produces 184,467,440,737.08554078 bitcoins—almost 9,000 times more than the system's legitimate limit. Bitcoin developers and the community swiftly detect the issue, releasing updated software within hours. By the following day, the corrected blockchain surpasses the manipulated one, restoring normal Bitcoin operations, though not without significant market disruption.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822.0

Price

$101,380

Sats per Dollar

986

Market Capitalization

$2.01T

All-Time High Price

$109,300

Decline from ATH

-7%

Reachable Bitcoin Nodes

21,551

Hash Rate, 90 Days

839.5 EH/s

RSI

73

30MA

$90,518

183MA

$92,874

365MA

$78,275