Corn Innovation: The scarcity of Bitcoin is not protected by code, but by humans

Corn co-founder Zak Cole tweeted that on August 15, 2010, an error in Bitcoin block 74638 created 184 billion BTC out of thin air. Due to the code not checking for integer overflow, approximately 92.2 billion tokens were received at each of the two addresses. The only reason Bitcoin did not disappear that day was because someone noticed it. Within five hours, push fixes, release patched clients, upgrade nodes, and remove invalid blocks from consensus. The scarcity of Bitcoin is not protected by code, it is protected by humans. The monetary policy of Bitcoin is not saved by the protocol, but by the humans running the protocol. This is the truth behind the narrative of 'no need for trust'. The code did not save Bitcoin, the community did. Scarcity is never a guarantee, but a struggle. It is still the case now.