Term

Value Overflow Bug

A critical bug where arithmetic overflow creates or destroys coins unintentionally.

Type:
security
consensus
1
definition

Overflow or underflow in consensus code can mint excess coins or break supply invariants. Bitcoin fixed a historical overflow in 2010 that created trillions of coins in a single transaction before being rolled back.

Example 1.1

"Nodes patched and coordinated a chain rollback to invalidate the overflow transaction and restore the correct total supply."

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