In August of 2010, someone found a flaw in Bitcoin's code and exploited it to make 184 billion Bitcoins, even though the total amount amount of Bitcoins that could ever be created was capped at 21m.
All of that Bitcoin was on block "74,638", and was owned by 2 addresses.
It however was quickly spotted on the forum by Jeff Garzik.
The bug was fixed by Satoshi Nakamoto himself, taking around 5 hours. He released a new patch and they created a new fork, which solves the issue.
It's lucky that this happened when it wasn't valued at all, because had something like this happened today, I can't imagine the amount of money that would be lost.
The issue was later called "Value overflow bug".
It would lose all it's value with a single person owning 184 billion, making it almost worthless.
Further read:
https://decrypt.co/39750/184-billion-bitcoin-anonymous-creator
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