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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Has blockchain ever got "hacked"?
by
swogerino
on 01/04/2017, 06:58:39 UTC
Yes, in Bitcoin's infancy (in 2010) a hacker created 92 184 billion Bitcoins using an exploit. This is the thread about this legendary event.

This is the only event I remember which was intentional and dangerous at the same time but Bitcoin wasn't worth (almost) anything then. Just 3 months earlier the legendary pizza transaction had taken place.

In 2016 and 2017 there were also "stress tests" that were probably simply spam attacks, but all they reached was a congestion of the network.

Interesting story which I was unaware of. I thought that bitcoin is not hackable as I have been reading many different webpages outside of this forum that says bitcoin is protected by the laws of universe and math. I hope this never happens again especially now in our time as this would be very dangerous for the existence of bitcoin itself.