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Title: Bitcoin Bug History is a chapter I don’t know about. Post by: Hazink on June 24, 2024, 07:12:42 PM I saw this topic earlier today . What if there's a bug no one has seen in Bitcoin? (http:// https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5500906.msg64251728#msg64251728), which led me to start running research on the bitcoin bug and any potential exploitation history, and I came across this article on Binance News . 13 years ago, someone created 184.5 million bitcoins (https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/1245474).
I later searched on the forum and came across this thread . Strange block 74638 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822.0) confirmed that the entire story was true, but the incident was immediately contained by Gavin Andresen, who is still part of the Bitcoin developer team, and he provided a temporary fix before Satoshi made the final permanent fix solution. This is my first time coming across this part of Bitcoin history. Is anyone here as allotted as I’m? And now my question here is, what if this was not detected and fixed and the hacker successfully reserved that Bitcoin without being detected? First, it could have not only tempered with the 21,000,000 limited supply, but would Bitcoin have been what it is today? Was there any other bug exploit attempt in the past? If there was any link to that, that would be nice. Title: Re: Bitcoin Bug History is a chapter I don’t know about. Post by: bitmover on June 24, 2024, 07:38:51 PM And now my question here is, what if this was not detected and fixed and the hacker successfully reserved that Bitcoin without being detected? First, it could have not only tempered with the 21,000,000 limited supply, but would Bitcoin have been what it is today? For a new technology, Bitcoin had impressive very low amount of bugs since the beginning. Thankfully, satoshi was still around when this bug you mentioned was discovered, as this was a critical one. But there wasn't any other critical one as far as I know. Quote Was there any other bug exploit attempt in the past? If there was any link to that, that would be nice. I know just about this other case where a person discovered a bug in 2019 and kept silence about it to avoid exploits Quote In 2018, a security researcher discovered a major vulnerability in Bitcoin Core, the software that powers the Bitcoin blockchain, but after reporting the issue and having it patched, the researcher opted to keep details private in order to avoid hackers exploiting the issue. Technical details were published earlier this week after the same vulnerability was independently discovered in another cryptocurrency, based on an older version of the Bitcoin code that hadn't received the patch. ... Called INVDoS, the vulnerability is a classic denial-of-service (DoS) attack. While in many cases, DoS attacks are harmless, they are not for internet-reachable systems, which need to have stable uptime in order to process transactions. INVDoS was discovered in 2018 by Braydon Fuller, a Bitcoin protocol engineer. Fuller found that an attacker could create malformed Bitcoin transactions that, when processed by Bitcoin blockchain nodes, would lead to uncontrolled consumption of the server's memory resources, which would eventually crash impacted systems. https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-kept-a-major-bitcoin-bug-secret-for-two-years-to-prevent-attacks/ There is also another report of a bug here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5032831.0 Bugs happen. All software has bugs. But never a critical bug caused a big problem for the bitcoin network. Title: Re: Bitcoin Bug History is a chapter I don’t know about. Post by: Felicity_Tide on June 24, 2024, 11:01:21 PM and I came across this article on Binance News . 13 years ago, someone created 184.5 million bitcoins (https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/1245474) Was it actually 184.5million Bitcoin or 184billion Bitcoin or two separate events?. Please, some one needs to clearify this, as most of the articles online keeps say billion. I can't even access the source link you provided, but here is the one I can provide from watchguru: https://watcher.guru/news/what-is-the-bitcoin-overflow-bug For a new technology, Bitcoin had impressive very low amount of bugs since the beginning. Thankfully, satoshi was still around when this bug you mentioned was discovered, as this was a critical one. But there wasn't any other critical one as far as I know. How about that of 2013? Quote Bloom filters were introduced with version 0.8, so versions 0.8.0 through 0.8.3 are vulnerable to this critical denial-of-service attack. Gavin Andresen gave a update about that after the issue had been addressed through an upgrade of Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4. Here is the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287351 Title: Re: Bitcoin Bug History is a chapter I don’t know about. Post by: Hazink on June 24, 2024, 11:19:07 PM and I came across this article on Binance News . 13 years ago, someone created 184.5 million bitcoins (https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/1245474) Was it actually 184.5million Bitcoin or 184billion Bitcoin or two separate events?. Please, some one needs to clearify this, as most of the articles online keeps say billion. I can't even access the source link you provided, but here is the one I can provide from watchguru: https://watcher.guru/news/what-is-the-bitcoin-overflow-bug Most articles speculate it to be billions; some say millions, but a few threads and statements about the same discussion pointed it to be 184.5 billions, which I should agree with, adding to the fact that it references this forum. Title: Re: Bitcoin Bug History is a chapter I don’t know about. Post by: hugeblack on June 25, 2024, 05:01:45 AM This is the complete list of all bugs and their details ----> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
Strange block 74638 was one of the most famous ones. I remember several years ago there was a competition to choose the most influential topics on the forum. I had suggested it among the best topics and it was approved by many. |