A walk through some of bitcoin's history on the blockchains: the 2010 inflation bug, the halvings, Mt. Gox
We published three history pieces this week, each walked through the actual blocks and transactions rather than retold from memory.
The 2010 inflation bug. Block 74,638: 184.4 billion BTC minted through an integer overflow, fixed in five hours. Minute-by-minute post-mortem:
https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/inflation-bug-postmortem
The halvings. 50, 25, 12.5, 6.25, 3.125 BTC, converging on 21 million around 2140, with halving five due at height 1,050,000 (around April 2028).
https://www.learnbitcoin.com/glossary/halving-halvening
Mt. Gox. About 70% of global volume in early 2014, 850,000 BTC announced missing, 200,000 found weeks later, payouts starting a decade on. The custody-failure entries (Gox, QuadrigaCX, FTX, Celsius/Genesis/3AC, BlockFi, Voyager) are all up now:
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