<P> In the early days, Nakamoto is estimated to have mined 1 million bitcoins . Before disappearing from any involvement in bitcoin, Nakamoto in a sense handed over the reins to developer Gavin Andresen, who then became the bitcoin lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation, the' anarchic' bitcoin community's closest thing to an official public face . </P> <P> The value of the first bitcoin transactions were negotiated by individuals on the bitcoin forum with one notable transaction of 10,000 BTC used to indirectly purchase two pizzas delivered by Papa John's . </P> <P> On 6 August 2010, a major vulnerability in the bitcoin protocol was spotted . Transactions weren't properly verified before they were included in the transaction log or blockchain, which let users bypass bitcoin's economic restrictions and create an indefinite number of bitcoins . On 15 August, the vulnerability was exploited; over 184 billion bitcoins were generated in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the network . Within hours, the transaction was spotted and erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed and the network forked to an updated version of the bitcoin protocol . This was the only major security flaw found and exploited in bitcoin's history . </P> <P> Based on bitcoin's open source code, other cryptocurrencies started to emerge . </P>

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