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On August 15, 2010, one of the largest bugs in Bitcoin's history occurred. The maximum supply of Bitcoin is 21 million BTC. However, through just a single transaction, approximately 184.4 billion BTC—far exceeding what should have existed—was generated and actually recorded on
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AI visual note: The image shows a Bitcoin forum post by "jgarzik" discussing the "Strange block 74638" bug from August 15, 2010, alongside a Japanese graphic explaining that two outputs totaling 92,233,720,368.54277039 BTC each combined to produce an enormous 184,467,440,000 BTC (~18.446 billion BTC), illustrating the value overflow bug that briefly created over 184 billion Bitcoin in a single transaction, far exceeding the intended 21 million BTC maximum supply.