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Comment Re:Am I the only one that hopes.. (Score 1) 115

Oh there were found quit a few bugs in the bitcoin software. I guess it's just not the mainstream fuzz to the broken wheel. For example there was a bug back in 2010 that cused 184 billion bitcoins to be created in a single block. Quit recently in 2018, there was another inflation bug discovered which could miners exploit to print out more bitcoins than the 21mil cap. There was also a history of exploiting the algorithm by double spent attack, e.g. employee at cex.io used double spent attack to game the lottery game.

Comment Re: Definitely not just scam. No sireee (Score 1) 60

In 2010 there was a overflow bug which caused 184 billion BTC to be mined in a single block. In 2018 there was another inflation bug found but was not exploited. In the past, there were also numerous incidents such as double spending, eclipse attack etc... Also the 21 mil max cap can be changed via soft and hard fork. The point of this argument is to show that bitcoin is just a software, and as software it can have many flaws. The ref on inflation bug: https://medium.datadriveninves...

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