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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 14 Apr 2023 \ on: Could a bitcoin "inflation bug" happen again, creating a risk of fake bitcoin? bitcoin
It could happen again but doesn't mean fake bitcoin will be created. Because bitcoin doesn't hard fork we have lots of old nodes running on the network. Even if that inflation bug was exploited it wouldn't have actually caused a inflation. What would have happened is that nodes thinking it was valid would have split off from the network. Eventually once they patched they'd come back to the real bitcoin without the split and inflation.