Crypto Stories You Rarely Hear #4
In 2014, a programmer tried to build a simple Ethereum-based game and accidentally created a smart contract that anyone could interact with freely. Years later, security researchers realized the contract still held valuable tokens, but no one could upgrade or shut it down. The code kept running exactly as written, silently executing on-chain for years—an early reminder that in Web3, deployed code can outlive its creator and become untouchable
Crypto Stories You Rarely Hear
In 2010, a Bitcoin miner noticed strange activity on the network and realized a critical bug had created over 184 billion BTC in a single transaction—far beyond Bitcoin’s fixed supply. Within hours, Satoshi Nakamoto and a few early developers coordinated a quiet emergency fix, rolling back the chain before most people even noticed. It remains one of the only times Bitcoin’s ledger was ever altered, and almost no one outside the early community remembers how close the system came to breaking forever
