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Re: overflow incident
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zeuner
on 27/04/2021, 05:17:26 UTC
Quote from: chainofzee on April 23, 2021, 11:55:10 AM
Quote from: zeuner on April 23, 2021, 11:18:03 AM
Quote from: chainofzee on April 23, 2021, 10:44:09 AM
about the overflow incident:

"The bad transaction no longer exists for people using the longest chain. Therefore, the bitcoins created by it do not exist either. While the transaction does not exist anymore, the 0.5 BTC that was consumed by it does. It appears to have come from a faucet and has not been used since.[7] "
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

does that mean we have 21m+0.5 bitcoin?

No. Look at the transaction in a block explorer. It has one 235,5 BTC input and two (0,5 BTC and 235,0 BTC) outputs. So, unless there were 21m+0,5 BTC before that transaction, this isn't the case afterwards, either.

how's that possible?
where did it go?

It came from 1eFysSL5XZkXc1rqEQxzXSBhAi1B658BB (Tx input) and went to 17TASsYPbdLrJo3UDxFfCMu5GXmxFwVZSW and 14i4JAaRjb6hRaUDzDRL3DfQRBeEhMjn7M (Tx outputs). It's the normal thing that happens for transactions. Since the transaction that caused new Bitcoins to be generated on the fork with the overflow bug was also valid on the chain that was continued until now, it had to be included.