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"This was possible because the code used for checking transactions before including them in a block didn't account for the case of outputs so large that they overflowed when summed"

Provable bugs in the system are not the same as accidentally exposing one's keys. Let's say I bought a used motorcycle from someone with BTC. Then I spam the community claiming the individual I bought from had in fact used malware to access my machine and stole the coin that way. The community to my knowledge has never reversed such a loss, nor should they be responsible for doing so.



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