— the day Bitcoin almost died.
Let me take you back to August 15, 2010. Bitcoin was still a baby. Each coin was worth $0.07. People mined it on laptops. And then… A single transaction appeared on the blockchain.
One wallet suddenly had:
👉 184,467,440,737 $BTC
Wait.
Bitcoin’s total supply limit is 21 million.
So what the hell just happened⁉️
💥 The Bug
Someone had found a critical flaw in Bitcoin’s code.
A bug in the way Bitcoin handled numbers (integer overflow) …let a miner “accidentally” mint almost 9,000x the total supply.
If left unfixed, it would’ve been game over.
Trust? Gone.
Scarcity? Destroyed.
Price? $0.
🧙♂️ Satoshi
Within 3 hours, Satoshi Nakamoto:
Detected the bug
Patched the code
Rolled back the chain
Erased the 184B transaction
This was the first — and only — time Bitcoin ever had a manual hard fork like this.
🧠 Here’s what’s wild…
Today, we talk about Bitcoin like it’s untouchable.
Unbreakable.
Perfect.
But it was once a few hours away from dying in silence.
So the real question is:
❓ Could it happen again?
🐛 Could another bug be buried deep in the code, still waiting to be found?
🧨 Or has Bitcoin truly become bulletproof?
💭 What do you think?
