Check the Core code for `MAX_MONEY` comparisons, as that was a lesson learned since iirc the integer overflow bug in 2010 (before my time.)

However, this only L1. Someone can perhaps inflate paper bitcoin and probably get away with it. I remember something about most of the wrapped BTC on various chains being tokens of tokens of tokens; the further a paper bitcoin is from L1, the higher the chance for bugs.



optimism

bitcoin

Illegality of inflation bugs.

dickiegreenlead

I'm no lawyer, so who knows, but my point was that I'm not sure such a transaction would ever get confirmed, even if it was accepted by most nodes. Maybe it sneaks through without anyone noticing, but more likely is people say *What the heck is this?* I suppose maybe I'm overestimating how closely the mempools are watched, but still...