BTC news: A 25-cent bitcoin deposit let a hacker mint 46 billion fake bitcoin tokens

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A Bitcoin vulnerability allowed an attacker to create approximately 46 billion counterfeit bitcoins after making a deposit worth just 25 cents. The flaw, discovered in 2010, was quickly patched before the fraudulent coins could be widely used, and the affected blockchain was reorganized to remove them. The incident underscores the importance of rapid protocol response and validation rules, while not indicating a current threat to Bitcoin’s fixed 21-million-coin supply.

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