feb 14, 2017 - BADHAIRDAY

Description:

On December 2nd, 2016, a user made an invalid counterparty transaction of HAIRPEPE and because of an unforeseen bug in the code, this transaction caused counterparty nodes to crash.

Aya, the artist of HAIRPEPE stated, 'As people began to troubleshoot what was wrong, it became known that HAIRPEPE was the cause of it, and the absurdity of it made it sort of a meme'.

Bitcointalk forum poster 'xnova' stated in his Bitcointalk forum post that the more technical explanation of this issue was: 'the parameters chosen for a HAIRPEPE order hit up on an obscure bug where the calculated integer value chosen for the order quantity was higher than the max integer value for sqllite, but equal to the max int value used in the python validation code (they differed by 1). Thus, the value was not further limited in the sanity check code, and when the daemon was attempting to store the record in sqllite it caused an exception.' The user, novax, went on to say that because of this mishap 'we now handle this situation in a way that should avoid this kind of issue in the future anywhere in the code.'

The asset that references this day was minted by Joe Looney and is named: BADHAIRDAY.

This artwork, which resembles a HAIRPEPE as a 'cog in the XCP machine', is also an official card in the Rare Pepe Directory.

Issuer: Joe Looney