☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Thursday, August 15th, 2024

GM! It's Thursday, August 15th, and everything is gradually coming together. On this day in 2010, Bitcoin experienced its first network downtime event due to the Value Overflow Incident (CVE-2010-5139). The bug occurred because there was no check to prevent sending excessively large values. Fortunately, Bitcoin's founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, posted a code update to fix the issue about five hours after it was discovered.

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