Value Overflow Incident

184 billion BTC created by bug — fixed by consensus in 5 hours.

Block

#74,638

Importance

85/100

People

Satoshi Nakamoto

A bug created 184 billion BTC in block 74,638. Satoshi and others coordinated a soft fork within 5 hours to invalidate the block — Bitcoin's first and only inflation bug.

What else happened around this time?

May 3, 2010PeopleLegendary

Patoshi Mining Pattern Ends

Forensic analysis places Satoshi's last known mined block at height 54,316.

#patoshi#satoshi

May 22, 2010AdoptionEpoch

Bitcoin Pizza Day

Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas — the first real-world purchase.

BTC $0.0041#pizza-day#first-purchase

July 17, 2010ExchangesMajor

Mt. Gox Launched

Jed McCaleb launches what becomes the dominant Bitcoin exchange.

#mt-gox#exchange

July 18, 2010AdoptionMajor

Slashdot Features Bitcoin

Slashdot front page brings thousands of new users.

BTC $0.08#slashdot#media