According to ChainCatcher, Corn co-founder Zak Cole posted on X platform that on August 15, 2010, BTC was artificially created due to a bug, with approximately 184 billion BTC generated. This "value overflow incident" resulted in two wallets receiving around 92.2 billion BTC. Satoshi Nakamoto and several other developers (including Jeff Garzik and Gavin Andresen) launched a new client version with a soft fork five hours later to prevent similar events in the future. All nodes were upgraded at block 74691, with the new chain replacing the old chain.

Zak Cole stated that this event demonstrates that Bitcoin's scarcity is actually protected by humans, not code. The only reason Bitcoin did not perish that day was because someone noticed the issue and released a fix, with invalid blocks being removed from consensus within five hours. Bitcoin was saved not because of the protocol, but because of the people running the protocol. This is the truth behind the "trustless" narrative. The code did not save Bitcoin; the community saved Bitcoin.