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2010
Event
incident
The value overflow incident
What happened
A bug let someone create a transaction in block 74638 generating 184.467 billion BTC. Satoshi and others released a patched client within hours and the chain was forked to erase it.
Significance
The most serious bug in Bitcoin's history, and proof the community could coordinate an emergency fix — a foundational lesson in how Bitcoin handles crises.