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Colluding miners could pretty much do whatever they wanted.. > and that no such thing has happened at all, right? Except that time when 184 billion Bitcoin we
by mikeyouse 11y ago
Colluding miners could pretty much do whatever they wanted..
> and that no such thing has happened at all, right?
Except that time when 184 billion Bitcoin were created out of thin air and dispersed to two wallets.. Then the devs/miners agreed that the previous 5 hours' worth of transactions shouldn't count and hard-forked at an arbitrary point in the past.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
- CyberDildonics 11y agoThose are two incredibly different things. What you are talking about and linked to was a bug. That has nothing to do with miner colluding with each other to modify the ledger to their benefit.