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| 2008 || {{dts|August 18}} || || The <code>bitcoin.org</code> domain name is registered on this day.<ref name="gwern">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better |author=gwern |date=May 27, 2011 |title=Bitcoin is Worse is Better |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2008 || {{dts|August 18}} || || The <code>bitcoin.org</code> domain name is registered on this day.<ref name="gwern">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better |author=gwern |date=May 27, 2011 |title=Bitcoin is Worse is Better |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|August 22}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto emails Wei Dai asking when Dai's b-money paper was published, so that Nakamoto can cite the paper in his own.<ref name="gwern_2008_nakamoto" />
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| 2008 || {{dts|August 22}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto emails Wei Dai. In the email, Nakamoto links to a "pre-release draft" of the white paper and asks when Dai's b-money paper was published, claiming that he wants to know this so he can cite the paper correctly in his own.<ref name="gwern_2008_nakamoto" />
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|October 3}} || || A version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper exists from this day.<ref name="gwern_2008_nakamoto">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/2008-nakamoto |author=Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai |date=March 17, 2014 |title=Dai/Nakamoto emails |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/20081003-nakamoto-bitcoindraft.pdf |title=20081003-nakamoto-bitcoindraft.pdf |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2008 || {{dts|October 3}} || || A version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper exists from this day.<ref name="gwern_2008_nakamoto">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/2008-nakamoto |author=Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai |date=March 17, 2014 |title=Dai/Nakamoto emails |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/20081003-nakamoto-bitcoindraft.pdf |title=20081003-nakamoto-bitcoindraft.pdf |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|November 1}} || || The first public version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", is published.<ref name="gwern" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html |title=Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |date=November 1, 2008}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{dts|November 1}} || || The first public version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", is published.<ref name="gwern" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html |title=Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |date=November 1, 2008}}</ref> Depending on the time zone, this is October 31.<ref name="cat_hist" />
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|November 9}} || || The Bitcoin project is registered on [[wikipedia:SourceForge|SourceForge]].<ref name="cat_hist" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/ |title=Bitcoin |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Registered 2008-11-09}}</ref>
 
| 2008 || {{dts|November 9}} || || The Bitcoin project is registered on [[wikipedia:SourceForge|SourceForge]].<ref name="cat_hist" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/ |title=Bitcoin |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Registered 2008-11-09}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|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.<ref name="gwern" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898 |publisher=GitHub |title=First commit · bitcoin/bitcoin@4405b78 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || {{dts|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.<ref name="gwern" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898 |publisher=GitHub |title=First commit · bitcoin/bitcoin@4405b78 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|October 5}} || || BTC–USD exchange rates are first posted by NewLibertyStandard.<ref name="cat_hist" /> "During 2009 my exchange rate was calculated by dividing $1.00 by the average amount of electricity required to run a computer with high CPU for a year, 1331.5 kWh, multiplied by [&hellip;] the average residential cost of electricity in the United States for the previous year, $0.1136, divided by 12 months divided by the number of bitcoins generated by my computer over the past 30 days."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/2009+Exchange+Rate |title=2009 Exchange Rate - New Liberty Standard |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|October 9}}–12 || || The channel #bitcoin-dev is apparently registered on the [[wikipedia:Freenode|Freenode]] IRC network around this time. The two sources documenting this have conflicting dates, neither provides a source, and it's unclear how to tell when a channel was registered.<ref name="cat_hist" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jjw4DAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT4&ots=UAySAnv_Jt&dq=freenode%20%22bitcoin-dev%22&pg=PT4#v=onepage&q=freenode%20%22bitcoin-dev%22&f=false |title=Be a BITCOIN Millionaire |publisher=Google Books |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref> Discussion about chat logs would only come almost a year later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=986.0 |title=Freenode / #Bitcoin-Dev Chat Logs |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2009 || {{dts|October 12}} || || The first trade of bitcoin for [[wikipedia:Fiat money|fiat money]] takes place. Martti Malmi (Sirius) sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/423455561703624704 |title=Martti Malmi on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Found the first known bitcoin to USD transaction from my email backups. I sold 5,050 BTC for $5,02 on 2009-10-12.}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || {{dts|October 12}} || || The first trade of bitcoin for [[wikipedia:Fiat money|fiat money]] takes place. Martti Malmi (Sirius) sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/423455561703624704 |title=Martti Malmi on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Found the first known bitcoin to USD transaction from my email backups. I sold 5,050 BTC for $5,02 on 2009-10-12.}}</ref>
 
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| 2009 || {{dts|December 16}} || || Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16.0 |title=Bitcoin 0.2 released! |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=satoshi}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || {{dts|December 16}} || || Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16.0 |title=Bitcoin 0.2 released! |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=satoshi}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|December 30}} || || The first difficulty increase occurs, from 1 to 1.18.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blockchain.info/block/000000004f2886a170adb7204cb0c7a824217dd24d11a74423d564c4e0904967 |title=Bitcoin Block #32256 |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ggtrust.com/currency/files/2015/06/3.-Basics-of-Cryptocurrency.pdf |title=PowerPoint Presentation - 3.-Basics-of-Cryptocurrency.pdf |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="cat_hist" />
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| 2010 || {{dts|February 6}} || || An early version of Bitcoin Market begins operating.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Market |title=Bitcoin Market |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|May 22}} || || Laszlo Hanyecz (laszlo) reports that he has traded 10,000 of his bitcoins for two pizzas ordered by Jeremy Sturdivant (jercos). This transaction is the first documented purchase of a good using bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz |title=Laszlo Hanyecz |publisher=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos |title=Jercos |publisher=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 |title=Pizza for bitcoins? |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2010 || {{dts|May 22}} || || Laszlo Hanyecz (laszlo) reports that he has traded 10,000 of his bitcoins for two pizzas ordered by Jeremy Sturdivant (jercos). This transaction is the first documented purchase of a good using bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz |title=Laszlo Hanyecz |publisher=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos |title=Jercos |publisher=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 |title=Pizza for bitcoins? |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 18}} || || Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange founded by Jed McCaleb, is announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/2014-mccaleb |author=Jed McCaleb |date=February 16, 2014 |title=Jed McCaleb interview |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444.0 |title=New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com) |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=mtgox}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 6}} || || Bitcoin version 0.3 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238.0 |title=Bitcoin 0.3 released! |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=satoshi}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 6}} || || Bitcoin version 0.3 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238.0 |title=Bitcoin 0.3 released! |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=satoshi}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 18}} || || [[wikipedia:Mt. Gox|Mt. Gox]], a bitcoin exchange founded by Jed McCaleb, is announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/2014-mccaleb |author=Jed McCaleb |date=February 16, 2014 |title=Jed McCaleb interview |website=Gwern.net |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444.0 |title=New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com) |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=mtgox}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 18}} || || ArtForz generates "his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm". Apparently ArtForz announces this date on Bitcoin Talk, but neither source links to it, and a quick search didn't turn it up.<ref name="cat_hist" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/04/20/how-artforz-changed-the-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ |title=How ArtForz changed the history of Bitcoin mining |date=April 20, 2014 |author=Tim Swanson |publisher=Great Wall of Numbers |accessdate=June 14, 2017 |quote=Assuming he began mining on July 18th (based on his forum post stating that)}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|September 9}} || || The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/Bitcoin |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 6 years [Thu Sep 9 14:30:26 2010 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2010 || {{dts|September 9}} || || The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/Bitcoin |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 6 years [Thu Sep 9 14:30:26 2010 UTC]}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|October 17}} || || The Freenode IRC channel #bitcoin-otc is established. (Citation gives this date but does not provide a source.)<ref name="cat_hist" />
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| 2010 || {{dts|November 6}} || || Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 million.<ref name="cat_hist" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 |title=Bitcoin economy passes US $1 Million! |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|December 19}} || || [[wikipedia:Gavin Andresen|Gavin Andresen]] announces that he is stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367.0;all |title=Development process straw-man |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/ |author=Tom Simonite |title=Meet Gavin Andresen, the most powerful person in the world of Bitcoin |publisher=MIT Technology Review |date=August 15, 2014 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2010 || {{dts|December 19}} || || [[wikipedia:Gavin Andresen|Gavin Andresen]] announces that he is stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367.0;all |title=Development process straw-man |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/ |author=Tom Simonite |title=Meet Gavin Andresen, the most powerful person in the world of Bitcoin |publisher=MIT Technology Review |date=August 15, 2014 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>

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This is a timeline of Bitcoin.

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Year Month and date Event type Details
2008 August 18 The bitcoin.org domain name is registered on this day.[1]
2008 August 22 Satoshi Nakamoto emails Wei Dai. In the email, Nakamoto links to a "pre-release draft" of the white paper and asks when Dai's b-money paper was published, claiming that he wants to know this so he can cite the paper correctly in his own.[2]
2008 October 3 A version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper exists from this day.[2][3]
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][4] Depending on the time zone, this is October 31.[5]
2008 November 9 The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.[5][6]
2009 January 3 The Bitcoin genesis block is established.[7][5]
2009 January 9 Bitcoin version 0.1 is released.[8]
2009 January 12 The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney.[9]
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][10]
2009 October 5 BTC–USD exchange rates are first posted by NewLibertyStandard.[5] "During 2009 my exchange rate was calculated by dividing $1.00 by the average amount of electricity required to run a computer with high CPU for a year, 1331.5 kWh, multiplied by […] the average residential cost of electricity in the United States for the previous year, $0.1136, divided by 12 months divided by the number of bitcoins generated by my computer over the past 30 days."[11]
2009 October 9–12 The channel #bitcoin-dev is apparently registered on the Freenode IRC network around this time. The two sources documenting this have conflicting dates, neither provides a source, and it's unclear how to tell when a channel was registered.[5][12] Discussion about chat logs would only come almost a year later.[13]
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.[9][14]
2009 December 16 Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.[15]
2009 December 30 The first difficulty increase occurs, from 1 to 1.18.[16][17][5]
2010 February 6 An early version of Bitcoin Market begins operating.[18]
2010 May 22 Laszlo Hanyecz (laszlo) reports that he has traded 10,000 of his bitcoins for two pizzas ordered by Jeremy Sturdivant (jercos). This transaction is the first documented purchase of a good using bitcoin.[19][20][21]
2010 July 6 Bitcoin version 0.3 is released.[22]
2010 July 18 Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange founded by Jed McCaleb, is announced.[23][24]
2010 July 18 ArtForz generates "his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm". Apparently ArtForz announces this date on Bitcoin Talk, but neither source links to it, and a quick search didn't turn it up.[5][25]
2010 September 9 The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.[26]
2010 October 17 The Freenode IRC channel #bitcoin-otc is established. (Citation gives this date but does not provide a source.)[5]
2010 November 6 Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 million.[5][27]
2010 December 19 Gavin Andresen announces that he is stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".[28][29]
2011 January 6 First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.[9][30]
2011 May BitPay, a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.[31]
2011 May 9 The launch of Bitbills is announced. Bitbills are the first physical incarnation of bitcoins, coming in plastic cards that contain the cryptographic information.[32][33]
2011 May 20 The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[34]
2011 June 15 The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[35]
2011 September 23 Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.[36]
2011 November 21 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 is released. "The major change for this release is a completely new graphical that uses the Qt user interface toolkit."[37]
2012 March 30 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.[38]
2012 May 30 The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[39]
2012 June Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[40][41]
2012 September The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[42]
2012 September 17 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.[43]
2012 November 15 WordPress.com begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.[9][44]
2013 February 14 The social news aggregation website Reddit begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).[9][45][46]
2013 February 15 The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[47]
2013 February 19 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 is released. "This is a major release designed to improve performance and handle the increasing volume of transactions on the network."[48]
2013 March 6 The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[49]
2013 March 28 Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.[50][5]
2013 April 11 The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[51]
2014 February 7 The bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts all bitcoin withdrawals.[52]
2014 February 10 The February 10, 2014 flash crash occurs on the BTC-e exchange.[53]
2014 March 19 Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 is released. This is the first version using the name "Bitcoin Core" rather than "Bitcoin-Qt". The release announcement states: "To reduce confusion between Bitcoin-the-network and Bitcoin-the-software we have renamed the reference client to Bitcoin Core."[54]
2014 May 15 The DOS Stoned incident occurs.[55]
2015 February 16 Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.[56]
2015 July 12 Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.[57]
2016 February 23 Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.[58]
2016 August 2 The Bitfinex hack is first announced.[59]
2016 August 23 Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.[60]
2016 December The inaugural issue of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.[61]
2017 March 8 Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.[62]

Mentions on Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar.

Year bitcoin (Lopp)[63] blockchain (Lopp)[64] bitcoin (as of June 12, 2017)[65] blockchain (as of June 12, 2017)[66]
2009 83 97 54
2010 136 213 84 44
2011 218 224 252 55
2012 424 311 476 104
2013 1,390 477 1,480 208
2014 3,190 956 3,620 640
2015 3,670 1,440 3,470 1,140
2016 3,580 2,190 4,900 2,500
2017 1,920 1,760

GitHub repositories

The following table summarizes cumulative repositories on GitHub.[67]

Year Cumulative repositories
2009 0
2010 28
2011 370
2012 638
2013 2,184
2014 4,572
2015 6,884
2016 9,321

Meta information on the timeline

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See also

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References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai (March 17, 2014). "Dai/Nakamoto emails". Gwern.net. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  3. "20081003-nakamoto-bitcoindraft.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  4. "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper". November 1, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 "Category:History". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  6. "Bitcoin". SourceForge. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Registered 2008-11-09 
  7. "Bitcoin Block 0". Bitcoin Block Explorer. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  8. Satoshi Nakamoto (January 9, 2009). "Bitcoin v0.1 released". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "Bitcoin Firsts". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  10. "First commit · bitcoin/bitcoin@4405b78". GitHub. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  11. "2009 Exchange Rate - New Liberty Standard". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  12. "Be a BITCOIN Millionaire". Google Books. Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  13. "Freenode / #Bitcoin-Dev Chat Logs". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  14. "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. 
  15. satoshi. "Bitcoin 0.2 released!". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  16. "Bitcoin Block #32256". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  17. "PowerPoint Presentation - 3.-Basics-of-Cryptocurrency.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  18. "Bitcoin Market". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  19. "Laszlo Hanyecz". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  20. "Jercos". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  21. "Pizza for bitcoins?". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  22. satoshi. "Bitcoin 0.3 released!". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  23. Jed McCaleb (February 16, 2014). "Jed McCaleb interview". Gwern.net. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  24. mtgox. "New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com)". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  25. Tim Swanson (April 20, 2014). "How ArtForz changed the history of Bitcoin mining". Great Wall of Numbers. Retrieved June 14, 2017. Assuming he began mining on July 18th (based on his forum post stating that) 
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  27. "Bitcoin economy passes US $1 Million!". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  28. "Development process straw-man". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
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  30. "The Power of Bitcoins". Bitcoin Blogger. January 6, 2011. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  31. "BitPay". Crunchbase. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Founded: May 1, 2011 
  32. "Bitbills". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  33. llama (May 9, 2011). "Introducing Bitbills!". Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  34. "moderators - r/btc". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 6 years [Fri May 20 10:07:02 2011 UTC] 
  35. "moderators - r/BitcoinMining". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 5 years [Wed Jun 15 16:20:02 2011 UTC] 
  36. Gavin Andresen. "[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin 0.4.0 released". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  37. "Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 released". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  38. "Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 released". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  39. "moderators - r/BitcoinMagazine". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 5 years [Wed May 30 07:48:30 2012 UTC] 
  40. "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. 
  41. "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.
  42. Matonis, Jon (September 27, 2012). "Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement". Forbes. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week 
  43. "Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 released". Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  44. "Pay Another Way: Bitcoin". The WordPress.com Blog. November 15, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  45. "New Gold Payment Options: Bitcoin and Credit Card". Upvoted. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  46. Drew Olanoff (February 14, 2013). "Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases Thanks To Partnership With Coinbase". TechCrunch. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
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