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mrb on March 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits...

No this is not the first large occurence of this issue.

A fork this big (dozens of blocks covering multiple hours of transaction history) already happened in August 15, 2010, due to an unrelated bug: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

waterlesscloud on March 12, 2013 [–]

Though to be fair, that's like saying something happened in the precambrian age when talking about the average bitcoiner's awareness.

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