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Re: If the price of bitcoin increases
by
DdmrDdmr
on 02/06/2020, 15:03:26 UTC
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Unless your trusted source was from August 15th/16th 2010, which might have brought on some stressful adrenaline pumps to the total number of Bitcoins at the time, then your sources are wrong, and should probably resort to finding more consolidates mainstream entities (or the search function here).

Anecdotally (from today’s point of view), for a gap of time under 24 hours (hours really until  there was a patch), someone managed to create a TX with 92.233.720.368,54277039 BTCs, exploiting (allegedly maliciously) what is known as the value overflow incident.

It looks like we overtook the bad chain somewhere around 74689.  0.3.9 and lower nodes have been responding with the current block number for some hours now.

That means it's no longer necessary to delete blk*.dat before upgrading.  You can just upgrade and it'll reorg away the bad block chain.

Thanks to everyone for the quick response!