Timeline of Bitcoin
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This is a timeline of Bitcoin.
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Big picture
Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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2008 | August 18 | bitcoin.org is registered on this day.[1]
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2008 | November 1 | The first public version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", is published.[1][2] | |
2009 | January 12 | The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney.[3] | |
2009 | August 29 | The first revision in the Bitcoin Git repository is made on this day. However this commit is converted from the Subversion revision control system.[1][4] | |
2009 | October 12 | The first trade of bitcoin for fiat money takes place. Martti Malmi (Sirius) sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02.[3][5] | |
2009 | December 16 | Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.[6] | |
2010 | September 9 | The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.[7] | |
2011 | May 20 | The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[8] | |
2011 | June 15 | The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[9] | |
2012 | May 30 | The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[10] | |
2012 | June | Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[11][12] | |
2012 | September | The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[13] | |
2013 | February 15 | The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[14] | |
2013 | March 6 | The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[15] | |
2013 | April 11 | The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[16] |
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
What the timeline is still missing
Timeline update strategy
See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 gwern (May 27, 2011). "Bitcoin is Worse is Better". Gwern.net. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper". November 1, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Bitcoin Firsts". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ "First commit · bitcoin/bitcoin@4405b78". GitHub. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Martti Malmi on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
Found the first known bitcoin to USD transaction from my email backups. I sold 5,050 BTC for $5,02 on 2009-10-12.
- ↑ satoshi. "Bitcoin 0.2 released!". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ "moderators - r/Bitcoin". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 6 years [Thu Sep 9 14:30:26 2010 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/btc". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 6 years [Fri May 20 10:07:02 2011 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/BitcoinMining". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 5 years [Wed Jun 15 16:20:02 2011 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/BitcoinMagazine". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 5 years [Wed May 30 07:48:30 2012 UTC]
- ↑ "Coinbase - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
- ↑ "Coinbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
Founded: June 1, 2012
Crunchbase gives June 1 as the founding date, but Wikipedia gives June 20 with no citation. - ↑ Matonis, Jon (September 27, 2012). "Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement". Forbes. Archived from the original
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- ↑ "moderators - r/Jobs4Bitcoins". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 4 years [Fri Feb 15 16:11:25 2013 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/BitcoinBeginners". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 4 years [Wed Mar 6 11:35:47 2013 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/BitcoinMarkets". Retrieved June 12, 2017.
a community for 4 years [Thu Apr 11 08:23:13 2013 UTC]