Claim

Unspendable Bitcoin address bug AFFECTS Bitcoin

A programming error caused withdrawals to be sent to unspendable Bitcoin addresses, effectively destroying the coins.

Episode: EP 9 — The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox
Origin: Explicit
Confidence: 99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker: Kim Nilsson
Attributed source: —

Transcript evidence

“That meant that a number of withdrawals actually sent Bitcoins to unspendable addresses, which is the same as destroying Bitcoins.”

Kim Nilsson · offsets 18848–18978

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-12T18:01:10.141319+00:00

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