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| 2007 || {{dts|May 2007}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto claims he starts coding Bitcoin around this time.<ref name="princeton_bitcoin_book" />{{rp|18}} | | 2007 || {{dts|May 2007}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto claims he starts coding Bitcoin around this time.<ref name="princeton_bitcoin_book" />{{rp|18}} | ||
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− | | 2008 || {{dts|August}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto emails Adam Back, the creator of hashcash, "asking him to look at a short paper describing something called Bitcoin".<ref>{{cite book |title=Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money |author=Nathaniel Popper |year=2015 |publisher=Harper}}</ref> | + | | 2008 || {{dts|August}} || || Satoshi Nakamoto emails Adam Back, the creator of hashcash, "asking him to look at a short paper describing something called Bitcoin".<ref name="popper_digitial_gold">{{cite book |title=Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money |author=Nathaniel Popper |year=2015 |publisher=Harper}}</ref> |
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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|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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+ | | 2008 || {{dts|November}}–December || || Satoshi Nakamoto sends Hal Finney "an early, beta version [of Bitcoin] for testing". "In test runs in November and December they worked out some of the early kinks."<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 3}} || || The Bitcoin genesis block is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f |title=Bitcoin Block 0 |website=Bitcoin Block Explorer |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref name="cat_hist">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History |title=Category:History |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref> | | 2009 || {{dts|January 3}} || || The Bitcoin genesis block is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f |title=Bitcoin Block 0 |website=Bitcoin Block Explorer |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref name="cat_hist">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History |title=Category:History |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 12}} || || The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to [[wikipedia:Hal Finney (computer scientist)|Hal Finney]].<ref name="firsts">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Firsts |title=Bitcoin Firsts |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref> | | 2009 || {{dts|January 12}} || || The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to [[wikipedia:Hal Finney (computer scientist)|Hal Finney]].<ref name="firsts">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Firsts |title=Bitcoin Firsts |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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+ | | 2009 || {{dts|May}} || || Martti Malmi emails Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time, expressing willingness to help with Bitcoin development.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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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 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|November 22}} || || Bitcoin Talk, a discussion forum about Bitcoin, is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinTalk |title=BitcoinTalk - Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 24, 2017}}</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> By this point, Martti Malmi has joined Satoshi Nakamoto a developer with full permission to change the codebase. "Starting in August, the log of changes to the software showed that Martti was now the main actor. When the next version of Bitcoin, 0.2, was released, Satoshi gave credit for most of the improvements to Martti."<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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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" /> | | 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> | | 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|April}}–May || || Laszlo Hanecz (also "Hanyecz") begins mining bitcoin with a GPU around this time. "On May 17 he won twenty-eight blocks; these wins gave him fourteen hundred new coins that day."<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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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}} || || Ross Ulbricht begins the development of Silk Road.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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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> | | 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 11}} || || Release of Bitcoin version 0.3 is posted to Slashdot. | + | | 2010 || {{dts|July 11}} || || Release of Bitcoin version 0.3 is posted to Slashdot. This is the result of a "campaign to get Bitcoin real press coverage". With the increase in traffic from Slashdot, the Bitcoin website temporarily goes down. Despite "the derogatory comments that showed up under the Slashdot item", this brings in a bunch of new Bitcoin users: "The number of downloads would jump from around three thousand in June to over twenty thousand in July. The day after the Slashdot piece appeared, Gavin Andresen's Bitcoin faucet gave away 5,000 Bitcoins and was running empty."<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://historyofbitcoin.org/ |title=Bitcoin History: The Complete History of Bitcoin [Timeline] |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</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> | + | | 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> McCaleb had heard about Bitcoin from the Slashdot post several days earlier.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> |
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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> | | 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|July}} (late) || || Martti Malmi launches the non-English Bitcoin forum, in Russian.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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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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| 2011 || {{dts|February}} || || [[wikipedia:Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]], the first modern darknet market, launches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3984.msg57086#msg57086 |title=Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> Silk Road is the [[wikipedia:Darknet market#Silk Road and early markets|first darknet market to use both Tor and Bitcoin escrow]]. | | 2011 || {{dts|February}} || || [[wikipedia:Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]], the first modern darknet market, launches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3984.msg57086#msg57086 |title=Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> Silk Road is the [[wikipedia:Darknet market#Silk Road and early markets|first darknet market to use both Tor and Bitcoin escrow]]. | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|April 16}} || || Jerry Brito's "Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks" is published on ''Time''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ |publisher=TIME.com |title=Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks |author=Jerry Brito |date=April 16, 2011 |accessdate=June 24, 2017}}</ref> Nathaniel Popper calls this "the first mainstream news coverage for Bitcoin".<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|April}} (late){{snd}}May (early) || || The final emails from Satoshi Nakamoto are from this period.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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| 2011 || {{dts|May}} || || [[wikipedia:BitPay|BitPay]], a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitpay |title=BitPay |publisher=Crunchbase |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Founded: May 1, 2011}}</ref> | | 2011 || {{dts|May}} || || [[wikipedia:BitPay|BitPay]], a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitpay |title=BitPay |publisher=Crunchbase |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Founded: May 1, 2011}}</ref> | ||
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| 2011 || {{dts|June 1}} || || The Gawker piece on Silk Road is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160 |title=The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable |author=Adrian Chen |publisher=Gawker |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="liu">{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/turning-five-a-timeline-of-bitcoins-greatest-milestones |publisher=Motherboard |title=Turning Five: A Timeline of Bitcoin's Greatest Milestones |author=Alec Liu |date=January 5, 2014 |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> | | 2011 || {{dts|June 1}} || || The Gawker piece on Silk Road is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160 |title=The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable |author=Adrian Chen |publisher=Gawker |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="liu">{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/turning-five-a-timeline-of-bitcoins-greatest-milestones |publisher=Motherboard |title=Turning Five: A Timeline of Bitcoin's Greatest Milestones |author=Alec Liu |date=January 5, 2014 |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|June 14}} || || Gavin Andresen gives a talk on Bitcoin at the CIA.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.msg251755#msg251755 |title=Re: Gavin will visit the CIA |accessdate=June 24, 2017 |author=Gavin Andresen |date=June 20, 2011 |quote=I just uploaded pdf and KeyNote versions of the talk I gave at the CIA last Tuesday}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/80785477342478336?lang=en |title=Gavin Andresen on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=June 24, 2017 |quote=My talk at the CIA went well today. The hallways there are REALLY wide, and full of interesting stuff.}}</ref> | ||
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| 2011 || {{dts|June 15}} || || The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMining |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 5 years [Wed Jun 15 16:20:02 2011 UTC]}}</ref> | | 2011 || {{dts|June 15}} || || The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMining |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 5 years [Wed Jun 15 16:20:02 2011 UTC]}}</ref> | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|June 19}} || || Mt. Gox is hacked, causing the price of bitcoin to drop "from $17 to 1 penny in less than an hour".<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|July 26}} || || The Polish exchange site Bitomat temporarily goes offline.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitomat |title=Bitomat |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 25, 2017}}</ref> It would later be announced that the private keys belonging to customers' Bitcoin addresses were accidentally deleted.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /> | ||
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+ | | 2011 || {{dts|July 29}} || || The bitcoin wallet service MyBitcoin shuts down. "The founder of the site, a man who called himself Tom Williams, was unresponsive and soon enough all the wallets were frozen."<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32900.0 |title=mybitcoin down or just me? |accessdate=June 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MyBitcoin |title=MyBitcoin |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 25, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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| 2011 || {{dts|August 19}} || || The first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is submitted, explaining what a BIP is.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals |title=Bitcoin Improvement Proposals - Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0001.mediawiki |publisher=GitHub |title=bitcoin/bips |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> | | 2011 || {{dts|August 19}} || || The first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is submitted, explaining what a BIP is.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals |title=Bitcoin Improvement Proposals - Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0001.mediawiki |publisher=GitHub |title=bitcoin/bips |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref> |
Revision as of 18:10, 24 June 2017
This is a timeline of Bitcoin.
Contents
Big picture
Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
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1976 | The first public work on public-key cryptography is published.[1] Public-key cryptography is used in Bitcoin for specifying ownership of coins.[2] | ||
1979 | The Merkle tree is patented by Ralph Merkle.[1] | ||
1991 | Haber and Stornetta's paper on linked timestamping is published.[3]:15 | ||
1992–1993 | A proof-of-work system for email spam is presented.[1] | ||
1997 | March 28 | Adam Back proposes Hashcash on the Cypherpunks mailing list.[1][4] | |
1998 | Wei Dai's b-money paper is published.[1] | ||
1998 | Nick Szabo claims to have had the idea of Bitgold as early as this year. He would only blog about the idea in 2005.[3]:17 | ||
1999 | Sander and Ta-Shma's anonymous electronic cash system is published. "Satoshi could have integrated some anonymity insights of this approach into Bitcoin, but it is unclear whether he was not aware of this work when he released Bitcoin, whether he was familiar with it but decided not to use these features because of their high computational cost, or whether he consciously decided to leave Bitcoin pseudonymous."[5]:165–167 | ||
2001 | SHA-2 is first published.[1] Of the SHA-2 family of hash functions, SHA-256 would be used in Bitcoin for "integrity, block-chaining, and the hashcash cost-function".[2] | ||
2002 | August 1 | Adam Back's Hashcash paper is published. This is the paper cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.[6] The paper also happens to be the most-recently-published reference in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.[7] | |
2002 | December 9–10 | An entity x posts to the alt.internet.p2p and uk.finance newsgroups an "idea of a future with virtual peer to peer banking". This entity is speculated to be Satoshi Nakamoto.[8][9] | |
2007 | May 2007 | Satoshi Nakamoto claims he starts coding Bitcoin around this time.[3]:18 | |
2008 | August | Satoshi Nakamoto emails Adam Back, the creator of hashcash, "asking him to look at a short paper describing something called Bitcoin".[10] | |
2008 | August 18 | The bitcoin.org domain name is registered on this day.[1]
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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.[11] | |
2008 | October 3 | A version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper exists from this day.[11][12] | |
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][13] Depending on the time zone, this is October 31.[14] | |
2008 | November 9 | The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.[14][15] | |
2008 | November–December | Satoshi Nakamoto sends Hal Finney "an early, beta version [of Bitcoin] for testing". "In test runs in November and December they worked out some of the early kinks."[10] | |
2009 | January 3 | The Bitcoin genesis block is established.[16][14] | |
2009 | January 9 | Bitcoin version 0.1 is released.[17] | |
2009 | January 12 | The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney.[18] | |
2009 | May | Martti Malmi emails Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time, expressing willingness to help with Bitcoin development.[10] | |
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][19] | |
2009 | October 5 | BTC–USD exchange rates are first posted by NewLibertyStandard, where $1 is worth 1,309.03 BTC.[14] "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."[20] | |
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.[14][21] Discussion about chat logs would only come almost a year later.[22] | |
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.[18][23] | |
2009 | November 22 | Bitcoin Talk, a discussion forum about Bitcoin, is created.[24] | |
2009 | December 16 | Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.[25] By this point, Martti Malmi has joined Satoshi Nakamoto a developer with full permission to change the codebase. "Starting in August, the log of changes to the software showed that Martti was now the main actor. When the next version of Bitcoin, 0.2, was released, Satoshi gave credit for most of the improvements to Martti."[10] | |
2009 | December 30 | The first difficulty increase occurs, from 1 to 1.18.[26][27][14] | |
2010 | February 6 | An early version of Bitcoin Market begins operating.[28] | |
2010 | April–May | Laszlo Hanecz (also "Hanyecz") begins mining bitcoin with a GPU around this time. "On May 17 he won twenty-eight blocks; these wins gave him fourteen hundred new coins that day."[10] | |
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.[29][30][31] | |
2010 | July | Ross Ulbricht begins the development of Silk Road.[10] | |
2010 | July 6 | Bitcoin version 0.3 is released.[32] | |
2010 | July 11 | Release of Bitcoin version 0.3 is posted to Slashdot. This is the result of a "campaign to get Bitcoin real press coverage". With the increase in traffic from Slashdot, the Bitcoin website temporarily goes down. Despite "the derogatory comments that showed up under the Slashdot item", this brings in a bunch of new Bitcoin users: "The number of downloads would jump from around three thousand in June to over twenty thousand in July. The day after the Slashdot piece appeared, Gavin Andresen's Bitcoin faucet gave away 5,000 Bitcoins and was running empty."[10][33] | |
2010 | July 18 | Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange founded by Jed McCaleb, is announced.[34][35] McCaleb had heard about Bitcoin from the Slashdot post several days earlier.[10] | |
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.[14][36] | |
2010 | July (late) | Martti Malmi launches the non-English Bitcoin forum, in Russian.[10] | |
2010 | September 9 | The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.[37] | |
2010 | October 17 | The Freenode IRC channel #bitcoin-otc is established. (Citation gives this date but does not provide a source.)[14] | |
2010 | November 6 | Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 million.[14][38] | |
2010 | December 12 | The last post from the "satoshi" account on Bitcoin Talk is from this day.[39] | |
2010 | December 19 | Gavin Andresen announces that he is stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".[40][41] | |
2011 | January 6 | First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.[18][42] | |
2011 | February | Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, launches.[43] Silk Road is the first darknet market to use both Tor and Bitcoin escrow. | |
2011 | April 16 | Jerry Brito's "Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks" is published on Time.[44] Nathaniel Popper calls this "the first mainstream news coverage for Bitcoin".[10] | |
2011 | April (late) – May (early) | The final emails from Satoshi Nakamoto are from this period.[10] | |
2011 | May | BitPay, a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.[45] | |
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.[46][47] | |
2011 | May 20 | The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[48] | |
2011 | June 1 | The Gawker piece on Silk Road is published.[49][50] | |
2011 | June 14 | Gavin Andresen gives a talk on Bitcoin at the CIA.[10][51][52] | |
2011 | June 15 | The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[53] | |
2011 | June 19 | Mt. Gox is hacked, causing the price of bitcoin to drop "from $17 to 1 penny in less than an hour".[10] | |
2011 | July 26 | The Polish exchange site Bitomat temporarily goes offline.[54] It would later be announced that the private keys belonging to customers' Bitcoin addresses were accidentally deleted.[10] | |
2011 | July 29 | The bitcoin wallet service MyBitcoin shuts down. "The founder of the site, a man who called himself Tom Williams, was unresponsive and soon enough all the wallets were frozen."[10][55][56] | |
2011 | August 19 | The first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is submitted, explaining what a BIP is.[57][58] | |
2011 | September 23 | Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.[59] | |
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."[60] | |
2012 | March 30 | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.[61] | |
2012 | May 30 | The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[62] | |
2012 | June | Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[63][64] | |
2012 | September 27 | The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[65][50] | |
2012 | September 17 | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.[66] | |
2012 | November 15 | WordPress.com begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.[18][67] | |
2013 | January 31 | The first application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed for Bitcoin mining are shipped.[50] | |
2013 | February 14 | The social news aggregation website Reddit begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).[18][68][69] | |
2013 | February 15 | The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[70] | |
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."[71] | |
2013 | March 6 | The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[72] | |
2013 | March 12 | An unexpected fork of the Bitcoin blockchain occurs due to a newer version of the Bitcoin client accepting a particular block that older versions of the client reject.[73][74][75] | |
2013 | March 18 | The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) releases guidance on using virtual currencies.[76][50] | |
2013 | March 28 | Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.[77][14] | |
2013 | April 11 | The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[78] | |
2013 | May 7 | Coinbase announces "the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures".[79][50] | |
2013 | May 14 | The Dwolla account belonging to Mt. Gox is frozen due to a seizure warrant issued by the Department of Homeland Security.[80][81][50] | |
2013 | May 17 | The first official Bitcoin conference takes place in San Jose.[50] | |
2013 | July 23 | Trendon T. Shavers is "sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday and accused of running a fund that collected bitcoins from investors, promising them 7 percent weekly returns".[82] | |
2013 | September 26 | SecondMarket begins raising money for the Bitcoin Investment Trust, an investment fund holding only bitcoins.[83] | |
2013 | November 1 | The initial version of "Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable" by Eyal and Sirer is uploaded to the preprint repository arXiv.[84] The paper is announced on the authors' blog on November 4.[85] The paper receives coverage on Vice,[86] Bitcoin Magazine,[87] and Bitcoin Talk.[88][50] | |
2013 | November 18 | "Federal officials indicate at a Senate hearing on Nov. 18 that such digital currency networks offer real benefits for the financial system even as they acknowledge that new forms of digital money have provided avenues for money laundering and illegal activity."[89] | |
2013 | November 20 | The University of Nicosia in Cyprus becomes the first university to accept payment for tuition in bitcoin.[50][90][91] | |
2014 | January 9 | Overstock.com becomes the first major online retailer to accept payments in bitcoin.[92][50] In December 2013 the company had announced that it was preparing to accept bitcoin.[93] | |
2014 | February 7 | The bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts all bitcoin withdrawals.[94] | |
2014 | February 10 | The February 10, 2014 flash crash occurs on the BTC-e exchange.[95] | |
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."[96] | |
2014 | May 15 | The DOS Stoned incident occurs.[97] | |
2015 | February 16 | Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.[98] | |
2015 | July 12 | Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.[99] | |
2016 | February 23 | Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.[100] | |
2016 | August 2 | The Bitfinex hack is first announced.[101] | |
2016 | August 23 | Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.[102] | |
2016 | December | The inaugural issue of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.[103] | |
2017 | March 8 | Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.[104] | |
2140 | The last bitcoin will be mined around this year due to block reward halving.[105][106] |
Mentions on Google Scholar
The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar.
Year | bitcoin (Lopp)[107] | blockchain (Lopp)[108] | bitcoin (as of June 12, 2017)[109] | blockchain (as of June 12, 2017)[110] |
---|---|---|---|---|
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.[111]
Year | Cumulative repositories |
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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
How the timeline was built
What the timeline is still missing
Timeline update strategy
See also
External links
References
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Founded: May 1, 2011
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I just uploaded pdf and KeyNote versions of the talk I gave at the CIA last Tuesday
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My talk at the CIA went well today. The hallways there are REALLY wide, and full of interesting stuff.
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A block was produced that the latest version of the Bitcoin software, version 0.8, recognized as valid but that nodes still running version 0.7 or earlier rejected.
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On Thursday, SecondMarket is expected to begin raising money for an investment fund — the first of its kind in the United States — that will hold only bitcoins, giving wealthy investors exposure to the trendy but controversial virtual currency.
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Bitcoin plunged just over 23 percent on Tuesday after the news broke.
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If the mining power had remained constant since the first Bitcoin was mined, the last Bitcoin would have been mined somewhere near October 8th, 2140. Due to the mining power having increased overall over time, as of block 367,500 - assuming mining power remained constant from that block forward - the last Bitcoin will be mined on May 7th, 2140.
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