Name: Bitcoin Historical Events
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Value Overflow Incident2010-08-15 — Protocol & TechnicalA critical bug creates 184 billion BTC in a single transaction. Satoshi Nakamoto quickly releases a patch and the blockchain is soft-forked to remove the invalid transaction. The only time the 21 million cap was technically breached.

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