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Jeff Garzik

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Early Bitcoin developer (from 2010); earlier a Linux kernel developer

Joined the Bitcoin forum in July 2010. On 15 August 2010 he started the forum thread about the “strange” block 74638. It turned out to be the value-overflow bug: one transaction created just over 92 billion BTC on each of two addresses, and it was fixed within hours. His forum signature describes him as Bloq CEO and a former member of the Bitcoin Core dev team.

Joined: 2010-07-21 · Registered on the Bitcoin forum, 21 Jul 2010 · bitcointalk.org ↗ primaryLocation: Atlanta, GA, USA (his public GitHub and X profiles) · github.com ↗ primary
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Museum format: every post is a real, sourced quote. Quotes stay in the original English; the Russian line is our translation.Source badges on this profile: primary 12 · secondary 2 · unconfirmed 0
Jeff Garzik · life event
May 2016 secondary
📌 Says Craig Wright's public “evidence” of being Satoshi proves nothing

Reported in Wikipedia's Satoshi Nakamoto article; in 2024 the High Court ruled that Wright is not Satoshi.

Original: en.wikipedia.org ↗On the museum timeline →
Jeff Garzik · life event
2010-08-15 secondary
📌 Value-overflow bug: found, fixed and forked away within hours

A transaction sent just over 92 billion BTC to each of two addresses; miners moved to a fixed version and the chain was forked below it.

Original: en.wikipedia.org ↗