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| 1976–2002 || Background research || The key advances in public-key cryptography, proof-of-work systems, etc., are made during this period.
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| 2003–2007 || Lull? || (This is the period during which anyone with sufficient knowledge and insight could have invented Bitcoin, but nobody did.)
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| 2008–2010 || Early days of Bitcoin || Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper is published, the Bitcoin client is released, and some "firsts" take place, like the first trade for fiat money and first trade for a good. Satoshi Nakamoto is still around during this period.
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| 2011–2012 || Continued development || Satoshi Nakamoto disappears, but Bitcoin growth continues. Silk Road, BitPay, and Coinbase all launch during this period.
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| 2013–?? || ?? ||
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| 2017 || Mainstream popularity || Bitcoin sees a roughly 20-fold rise since the beginning of the year, growing also exponentially in popularity. Throughout 2017, Bitcoin value would grow from US$900 to almost US$20,000.
 
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* TODO Add more events about exchange rate changes
 
* TODO Add more events about exchange rate changes
 
* TODO Add CVEs and other incidents related to security and bad transactions
 
* TODO Add CVEs and other incidents related to security and bad transactions
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* TODO silkroad?
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* TODO "Historically it was not required to include a fee for every transaction. A large portion of miners would mine transactions with no fee given that they had enough "priority". Today, low priority is mostly used as an indicator for spam transactions and almost all miners expect every transaction to include a fee. Today miners choose which transactions to mine only based on fee-rate." https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Fee When was this "historical" period?
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* TODO Fix Bitcoin/bitcoin capitalization. "Some people differentiate between Bitcoin capitalized, as the token, and bitcoin lowercase, as the network." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/business/all-about-bitcoin-the-mysterious-digital-currency.html And: 'By the way, I’m using capitalized “Infocoin” to refer to the protocol and general concept, and lowercase “infocoin” to refer to specific denominations of the currency. A similar useage is common, though not universal, in the Bitcoin world.' http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ And: "There is no uniform convention for bitcoin capitalization. Some sources use Bitcoin, capitalized, to refer to the technology and network and bitcoin, lowercase, to refer to the unit of account.[25] The Wall Street Journal,[26] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[27] and the Oxford English Dictionary[24] advocate use of lowercase bitcoin in all cases, which this article follows." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Etymology_and_orthography
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* TODO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalBitcoins
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* TODO triple-entry accounting, e.g. http://iang.org/papers/triple_entry.html
 
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| 1979 || || || The [[wikipedia:Merkle tree|Merkle tree]] is patented by [[wikipedia:Ralph Merkle|Ralph Merkle]].<ref name="gwern" />
 
| 1979 || || || The [[wikipedia:Merkle tree|Merkle tree]] is patented by [[wikipedia:Ralph Merkle|Ralph Merkle]].<ref name="gwern" />
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| 1991 || || || Haber and Stornetta's paper on linked timestamping is published.<ref name="princeton_bitcoin_book">{{cite book |title=Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (draft version) |first1=Arvind |last1=Narayanan |first2=Joseph |last2=Bonneau |first3=Edward |last3=Felten |first4=Andrew |last4=Miller |first5=Steven |last5=Goldfeder |first6=Jeremy |last6=Clark |date=February 9, 2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |url=https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf?a=1}}</ref>{{rp|15}}
 
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| 1992–1993 || || || A [[wikipedia:Proof-of-work system|proof-of-work system]] for [[wikipedia:Email spam|email spam]] is presented.<ref name="gwern" />
 
| 1992–1993 || || || A [[wikipedia:Proof-of-work system|proof-of-work system]] for [[wikipedia:Email spam|email spam]] is presented.<ref name="gwern" />
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| 1998 || || || Wei Dai's b-money paper is published.<ref name="gwern" />
 
| 1998 || || || Wei Dai's b-money paper is published.<ref name="gwern" />
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| 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.<ref name="princeton_bitcoin_book" />{{rp|17}}
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| 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."<ref>{{cite book |title=Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, engineering, and economics |author=Pedro Franco |year=2015 |publisher=Wiley}}</ref>{{rp|165–167}}
 
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| 2001 || || || [[wikipedia:SHA-2|SHA-2]] is first published.<ref name="gwern" /> Of the SHA-2 family of hash functions, SHA-256 would be used in Bitcoin for "integrity, block-chaining, and the hashcash cost-function".<ref name="How_bitcoin_works">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works |title=How bitcoin works |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2001 || || || [[wikipedia:SHA-2|SHA-2]] is first published.<ref name="gwern" /> Of the SHA-2 family of hash functions, SHA-256 would be used in Bitcoin for "integrity, block-chaining, and the hashcash cost-function".<ref name="How_bitcoin_works">{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works |title=How bitcoin works |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2002 || {{dts|August 1}} || || Adam Back's Hashcash paper is published. This is the paper cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf |title=Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure |author=Adam Back |date=August 1, 2002 |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2002 || {{dts|August 1}} || || Adam Back's Hashcash paper is published. This is the paper cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf |title=Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure |author=Adam Back |date=August 1, 2002 |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref> The paper also happens to be the most-recently-published reference in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf |title=Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System |author=Satoshi Nakamoto |accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2002 || {{dts|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.finance/-Ko72tv170I/HTKv-5VCbGQJ |title=Virtual peer to peer banking - Google Groups |accessdate=June 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/X |title=x |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 15, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2002 || {{dts|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.finance/-Ko72tv170I/HTKv-5VCbGQJ |title=Virtual peer to peer banking - Google Groups |accessdate=June 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/X |title=x |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 15, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2007 || {{dts|May}} || || 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 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 9}} || || Bitcoin version 0.1 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html |title=Bitcoin v0.1 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |date=January 9, 2009 |author=Satoshi Nakamoto}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 9}} || Software version || Bitcoin version 0.1 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html |title=Bitcoin v0.1 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |date=January 9, 2009 |author=Satoshi Nakamoto}}</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 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 5}} || || BTC–USD exchange rates are first posted by NewLibertyStandard, where $1 is worth 1,309.03 BTC.<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>
 
| 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>
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| 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}} || Software version || 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 || Mining || 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 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}} || || Ross Ulbricht begins the development of Silk Road.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" />
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 6}} || Software version || 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. 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>
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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> 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>
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 18}} || Mining || 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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| 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>
 
| 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 12}} || || The last post from the "satoshi" account on Bitcoin Talk is from this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts |title=Latest posts of: satoshi |accessdate=June 16, 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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| 2011 || || || Casascius coins are first created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins |title=Casascius physical bitcoins |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 27, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2011 || {{dts|January 6}} || || First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618021437/http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html |archivedate=June 18, 2013 |title=The Power of Bitcoins |website=Bitcoin Blogger |date=January 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2011 || {{dts|January 6}} || || First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618021437/http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html |archivedate=June 18, 2013 |title=The Power of Bitcoins |website=Bitcoin Blogger |date=January 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</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]].
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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|May 20}} || || The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/btc |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 6 years [Fri May 20 10:07:02 2011 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2011 || {{dts|May 20}} || || The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/btc |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 6 years [Fri May 20 10:07:02 2011 UTC]}}</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>
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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>
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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}} || Mining || 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|September 23}} || || Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2011-September/000582.html |title=[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin 0.4.0 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=Gavin Andresen}}</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|November 21}} || || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 is released. "The major change for this release is a completely new graphical that uses the [[wikipedia:Qt (software)|Qt user interface toolkit]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.5.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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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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| 2012 || {{dts|March 30}} || || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.6.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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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>
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| 2011 || {{dts|August}} (late) || Conference || The Bitcoin Conference & World Expo NYC 2011, organized by Bruce Wagner of ''The Bitcoin Show'', takes place.<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" />
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| 2011 || {{dts|September 23}} || Software version || Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2011-September/000582.html |title=[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin 0.4.0 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |author=Gavin Andresen}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|November 21}} || Software version || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 is released. "The major change for this release is a completely new graphical that uses the [[wikipedia:Qt (software)|Qt user interface toolkit]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.5.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 released |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|March 30}} || Software version || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.6.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|April 24}} || || Satoshi Dice (now called [[wikipedia:MegaDice|MegaDice]]), a betting site, is announced on Bitcoin Talk by [[wikipedia:Erik Voorhees|Erik Voorhees]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77870.0 |title=SatoshiDICE.com - The World's Most Popular Bitcoin Game |accessdate=June 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Dice |title=Satoshi Dice |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 27, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|May 30}} || || The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMagazine/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMagazine |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 5 years [Wed May 30 07:48:30 2012 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2012 || {{dts|May 30}} || || The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMagazine/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMagazine |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 5 years [Wed May 30 07:48:30 2012 UTC]}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|June}} || || [[wikipedia:Coinbase|Coinbase]], a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coinbase.com/about?locale=en-US |title=Coinbase - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coinbase |title=Coinbase |publisher=Crunchbase |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Founded: June 1, 2012}} Crunchbase gives June 1 as the founding date, but Wikipedia gives June 20 with no citation.</ref>
 
| 2012 || {{dts|June}} || || [[wikipedia:Coinbase|Coinbase]], a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coinbase.com/about?locale=en-US |title=Coinbase - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coinbase |title=Coinbase |publisher=Crunchbase |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Founded: June 1, 2012}} Crunchbase gives June 1 as the founding date, but Wikipedia gives June 20 with no citation.</ref>
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|September}} || || The [[wikipedia:Bitcoin Foundation|Bitcoin Foundation]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/09/27/bitcoin-foundation-launches-to-drive-bitcoins-advancement/ |first=Jon |last=Matonis |archivedate=January 23, 2013 |archiveurl=http://archive.is/0NaKf |title=Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement |publisher=Forbes |date=September 27, 2012 |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 27}} || || The [[wikipedia:Bitcoin Foundation|Bitcoin Foundation]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/09/27/bitcoin-foundation-launches-to-drive-bitcoins-advancement/ |first=Jon |last=Matonis |archivedate=January 23, 2013 |archiveurl=http://archive.is/0NaKf |title=Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement |publisher=Forbes |date=September 27, 2012 |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week}}</ref><ref name="liu" />
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 17}} || || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.7.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 17}} || Software version || Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.7.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|November 15}} || || [[wikipedia:WordPress.com|WordPress.com]] begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/ |title=Pay Another Way: Bitcoin |date=November 15, 2012 |publisher=The WordPress.com Blog |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2012 || {{dts|November 15}} || || [[wikipedia:WordPress.com|WordPress.com]] begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/ |title=Pay Another Way: Bitcoin |date=November 15, 2012 |publisher=The WordPress.com Blog |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || || Mining || The Bitcoin startup 21 is founded as 21e6. The company produces specialized bitcoin mining chips and also works toward the mass adoption of bitcoin by "building bitcoin products for the general public".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/10/secretive-bitcoin-startup-21-reveals-record-funds-hints-at-mass-consumer-play/ |author=Michael J. Casey |publisher=[[wikipedia:The Wall Street Journal|The Wall Street Journal]] |title=Secretive Bitcoin Startup 21 Reveals Record Funds, Hints at Mass Consumer Play |accessdate=June 28, 2017 |date=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref name="popper_digitial_gold" />
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| 2013 || {{dts|January 31}} || Mining || The first [[wikipedia:Application-specific integrated circuit|application-specific integrated circuits]] (ASICs) designed for Bitcoin mining are shipped.<ref name="liu" />
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|February 14}} || || The social news aggregation website [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]] begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://redditblog.com/2013/02/14/new-gold-payment-options-bitcoin-and-credit-card/ |publisher=Upvoted |title=New Gold Payment Options: Bitcoin and Credit Card |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/reddit-starts-accepting-bitcoin-for-reddit-gold-purchases-thanks-to-partnership-with-coinbase/ |date=February 14, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases Thanks To Partnership With Coinbase |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || {{dts|February 14}} || || The social news aggregation website [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]] begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).<ref name="firsts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://redditblog.com/2013/02/14/new-gold-payment-options-bitcoin-and-credit-card/ |publisher=Upvoted |title=New Gold Payment Options: Bitcoin and Credit Card |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/reddit-starts-accepting-bitcoin-for-reddit-gold-purchases-thanks-to-partnership-with-coinbase/ |date=February 14, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases Thanks To Partnership With Coinbase |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|February 15}} || || The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/Jobs4Bitcoins |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Fri Feb 15 16:11:25 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || {{dts|February 15}} || || The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/Jobs4Bitcoins |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Fri Feb 15 16:11:25 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.8.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|February 19}} || Software version || 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.8.0 |title=Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|March 3}} || Conference || A secretive technology conference for "tech-industry power players" takes place. At the conference, [[wikipedia:Wences Casares|Wences Casares]] introduces or explains Bitcoin to business leaders including [[wikipedia:Reid Hoffman|Reid Hoffman]], [[wikipedia:Michael Ovitz|Michael Ovitz]], and [[wikipedia:Henry Blodget|Henry Blodget]].<ref name="popper_digitial_gold" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-bitcoin-2013-3 |date=March 6, 2013 |title=Suddenly, Everyone's Talking About Bitcoin... |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=June 28, 2017 |author=Henry Blodget}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|March 6}} || || The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinBeginners |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Wed Mar 6 11:35:47 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || {{dts|March 6}} || || The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinBeginners |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Wed Mar 6 11:35:47 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bips/master/bip-0050.mediawiki |title=March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/chainfork.html |title=11/12 March 2013 Chain Fork Information |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3ddw3v/weathering-the-storm-bitcoin-finds-new-resiliency |publisher=Motherboard |title=Weathering the Storm? Bitcoin Finds New Resiliency |author=Alec Liu |date=March 16, 2013 |accessdate=June 22, 2017 |quote=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.}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|March 18}} || Regulation || The [[wikipedia:Financial Crimes Enforcement Network|Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]] (FinCEN) releases guidance on using virtual currencies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319213642/https://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html |title=FIN-2013-G001 |date=March 18, 2013 |archivedate=March 19, 2013}}</ref><ref name="liu" />
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|March 28}} || || Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/bitcoin-hits-1billion |publisher=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News |author=Morgen Peck |date=April 2, 2013 |title=Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="cat_hist" />
 
| 2013 || {{dts|March 28}} || || Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/bitcoin-hits-1billion |publisher=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News |author=Morgen Peck |date=April 2, 2013 |title=Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="cat_hist" />
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|April 11}} || || The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMarkets |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Thu Apr 11 08:23:13 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || {{dts|April 11}} || || The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/BitcoinMarkets |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=a community for 4 years [Thu Apr 11 08:23:13 2013 UTC]}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|May 7}} || || Coinbase announces "the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by [[wikipedia:Union Square Ventures|Union Square Ventures]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/05/07/coinbase-nabs-5m-in-biggest-funding-for-bitcoin-startup/ |author=Sarah E. Needleman |date=May 7, 2013 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The Wall Street Journal|The Wall Street Journal]] |title=Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="liu" />
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| 2013 || {{dts|May 14}} || || The [[wikipedia:Dwolla|Dwolla]] account belonging to Mt. Gox is frozen due to a seizure warrant issued by the Department of Homeland Security.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4332698/dwolla-payments-mtgox-halted-by-homeland-security-seizure-warrant |date=May 15, 2013 |publisher=The Verge |author=Amar Toor |title=US seizes and freezes funds at biggest Bitcoin exchange |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/feds-seize-money-from-top-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox/ |publisher=[[wikipedia:Ars Technica|Ars Technica]] |title=Feds seize money from Dwolla account belonging to top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox |author=Joe Mullin |date=May 14, 2013 |accessdate=June 22, 2017}}</ref><ref name="liu" />
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| 2013 || {{dts|May 17}} || Conference || The first official Bitcoin conference takes place in San Jose.<ref name="liu" />
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| 2013 || {{dts|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".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/s-e-c-says-texas-man-operated-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/ |author=Nathaniel Popper |date=July 23, 2013 |title=S.E.C. Says Texas Man Operated Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |accessdate=June 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|September 26}} || || [[wikipedia:NASDAQ Private Market|SecondMarket]] begins raising money for the Bitcoin Investment Trust, an investment fund holding only bitcoins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/fund-to-let-investors-bet-on-price-of-bitcoins/ |first1=Peter |last1=Lattman |first2=Nathaniel |last2=Popper |date=September 25, 2013 |title=Fund to Let Investors Bet on Price of Bitcoins |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |accessdate=June 17, 2017 |quote=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.}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|November 1}} || || The initial version of "Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable" by Eyal and Sirer is uploaded to the preprint repository [[wikipedia:arXiv|arXiv]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243v1 |title=[1311.0243v1] Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref> The paper is announced on the authors' blog on November 4.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/ |title=Bitcoin Is Broken |publisher=Hacking Distributed |date=November 4, 2013 |first1=Ittay |last1=Eyal |first2=Emin Gün |last2=Sirer |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref> The paper receives coverage on ''[[wikipedia:Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qx47k/bitcoin-isnt-broken-despite-a-potential-flaw |publisher=Motherboard |title=Bitcoin Isn't Broken, Despite a Potential Flaw |author=Alec Liu |date=November 7, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref> Bitcoin Magazine,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/selfish-mining-a-25-attack-against-the-bitcoin-network-1383578440/ |publisher=Bitcoin Magazine |title=Selfish Mining: A 25% Attack Against the Bitcoin Network |author=Vitalik Buterin |date=November 4, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref> and Bitcoin Talk.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.0 |title=Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref><ref name="liu" />
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| 2013 || {{dts|November 18}} || Regulation || "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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/technology/bitcoin-timeline.html?_r=0 |date=November 19, 2013 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=An Abridged History of Bitcoin |accessdate=June 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|November 20}} || || The [[wikipedia:University of Nicosia|University of Nicosia]] in Cyprus becomes the first university to accept payment for tuition in bitcoin.<ref name="liu" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xyw8yq/cyprus-university-students-can-pay-tuition-in-bitcoin-and-major-in-digital-currency |publisher=Motherboard |title=Cyprus' University Is the World's First to Accept Tuition in Bitcoin |author=Meghan Neal |date=November 20, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2013/cyprusbased-school-university-accept-bitcoin-tuition/ |title=This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition |publisher=GeekWire |author=Taylor Soper |date=November 20, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|January 9}} || || [[wikipedia:Overstock.com|Overstock.com]] becomes the first major online retailer to accept payments in bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/01/overstock-bitcoin-live/ |title=The Grand Experiment Goes Live: Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins |author=Cade Metz |date=January 9, 2014 |accessdate=June 23, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]]}}</ref><ref name="liu" /> In December 2013 the company had announced that it was preparing to accept bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9ak5my/bitcoin-just-scored-its-first-major-us-retailer |publisher=Motherboard |title=Bitcoin Just Scored Its First Major US Retailer |author=Alec Liu |date=December 20, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|January 26}} || || [[wikipedia:Charlie Shrem|Charlie Shrem]] is arrested. He is accused of using his company, BitInstant, to "knowingly convert money into virtual currency for people interested in buying narcotics on the Silk Road site" and of buying drugs on Silk Road.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/two-executives-of-bitcoin-businesses-are-arrested/ |author=Nathaniel Popper |date=January 27, 2014 |title=Bitcoin Figure Is Accused of Conspiring to Launder Money |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || {{dts|February 7}} || || The bitcoin exchange [[wikipedia:Mt. Gox|Mt. Gox]] halts all bitcoin withdrawals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/bitcoin-price-falls-as-mt-gox-exchange-halts-activity.html |archiveurl=https://archive.is/ueuoH |archivedate=February 7, 2014 |publisher=Bloomberg |title=Bitcoin Price Plunges as Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Activity |date=February 7, 2014 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || {{dts|February 7}} || || The bitcoin exchange [[wikipedia:Mt. Gox|Mt. Gox]] halts all bitcoin withdrawals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/bitcoin-price-falls-as-mt-gox-exchange-halts-activity.html |archiveurl=https://archive.is/ueuoH |archivedate=February 7, 2014 |publisher=Bloomberg |title=Bitcoin Price Plunges as Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Activity |date=February 7, 2014 |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|February 10}} || || The February 10, 2014 flash crash occurs on the [[wikipedia:BTC-e|BTC-e]] exchange.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/February_10,_2014_flash_crash |title=February 10, 2014 flash crash |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || {{dts|February 10}} || || The February 10, 2014 flash crash occurs on the [[wikipedia:BTC-e|BTC-e]] exchange.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/February_10,_2014_flash_crash |title=February 10, 2014 flash crash |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || {{dts|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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|March 19}} || Software version || 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|March 25}} || Regulation || In its first substantive ruling on cryptocurrencies, the Internal Revenue Service states that Bitcoin will be treated as property for tax purposes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property-not-currency-in-tax-system-irs-says |title=Bitcoin Is Property Not Currency in Tax System, IRS Says |date=March 25, 2014 |first1=Richard |last1=Rubin |first2=Carter |last2=Dougherty |publisher=Bloomberg Business |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202014708/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property-not-currency-in-tax-system-irs-says |archivedate=February 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-united-states-is-falling-behind-in-bitcoin-regulation-1461604211/ |publisher=Bitcoin Magazine |title=The United States Is Falling Behind in Bitcoin Regulation |author=Kyle Torpey |date=April 25, 2016 |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || {{dts|May 15}} || || The [[wikipedia:Stoned (computer virus)#Bitcoin blockchain incident|DOS Stoned incident]] occurs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/DOS/STONED_incident |title=DOS/STONED incident |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || {{dts|May 15}} || || The [[wikipedia:Stoned (computer virus)#Bitcoin blockchain incident|DOS Stoned incident]] occurs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/DOS/STONED_incident |title=DOS/STONED incident |website=Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 13, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|February 16}} || || Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|August 11}} || || The United States [[wikipedia:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau|Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]] begins taking complaints about Bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/consumer-bureau-now-taking-and-expecting-bitcoin-complaints/ |publisher=[[wikipedia:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]] |title=Consumer bureau now taking — and expecting — Bitcoin complaints |author=Nancy Scola |date=August 11, 2014 |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/consumer-advisory-virtual-currencies-and-what-you-should-know-about-them/ |title=Consumer advisory: Virtual currencies and what you should know about them |author=Will Wade-Gery |date=August 11, 2014 |publisher=Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|July 12}} || || Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|September 18}} || || Coin Center, a non-profit group focused on cryptocurrency research and advocacy, is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/09/18/bitcoin-gets-an-industry-backed-advocacy-group/ |publisher=[[wikipedia:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]] |title=Bitcoin gets an industry-backed advocacy group |author=Nancy Scola |date=September 18, 2014 |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|February 23}} || || Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|February 16}} || Software version || Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|June 4}} || Regulation || Coinbase suspends operations in Wyoming due to a regulatory legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-suspends-operations-in-wyoming/ |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Coinbase Suspends Operations in Wyoming |publisher=CoinDesk |accessdate=June 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|July 12}} || Software version || Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|August 8}} || Regulation || The [[wikipedia:BitLicense|BitLicense]], a business license for virtual currency activities, comes into effect in New York. The regulation causes numerous bitcoin companies to suspend operations in New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/08/12/the-great-bitcoin-exodus-has-totally-changed-new.html |date=August 12, 2015 |title=Coinsetter filed its BitLicense application in New York even as many other bitcoin startups leave |author=Michael del Castillo |publisher=New York Business Journal |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|October 8}} || || [[wikipedia:Gemini (digital currency exchange)|Gemini]], the digital currency exchange started by the [[wikipedia:Winklevoss twins|Winklevoss twins]], begins trading.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/05/winklevoss-twins-receive-approval-to-launch-bitcoin-exchange-gemini/ |date=October 5, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Winklevoss Twins Receive Approval To Launch Bitcoin Exchange Gemini |author=Fitz Tepper |accessdate=June 30, 2017 |quote=The platform will be open for trading this Thursday, October 8, but has already begun accepting signups.}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|December 16}} || || A working group under the Financial System Council has compiled a draft proposal on regulations for virtual currencies that are traded on the Internet".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/17/business/japan-panel-eyes-registration-system-for-virtual-currency-exchanges |title=Japan to consider regulating cybercurrency exchanges after Mt. Gox debacle |date=December 17, 2015 |publisher=The Japan Times |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|February 23}} || Software version || Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|August 2}} || || The [[wikipedia:Bitfinex hack|Bitfinex hack]] is first announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitfinex-hacked-hongkong-idUSKCN10E0KP |author=Clare Baldwin |date=August 3, 2016 |publisher=Reuters |title=Bitcoin worth $72 million stolen from Bitfinex exchange in Hong Kong |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Bitcoin plunged just over 23 percent on Tuesday after the news broke.}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || {{dts|August 2}} || || The [[wikipedia:Bitfinex hack|Bitfinex hack]] is first announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitfinex-hacked-hongkong-idUSKCN10E0KP |author=Clare Baldwin |date=August 3, 2016 |publisher=Reuters |title=Bitcoin worth $72 million stolen from Bitfinex exchange in Hong Kong |accessdate=June 12, 2017 |quote=Bitcoin plunged just over 23 percent on Tuesday after the news broke.}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|August 23}} || || Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|August 23}} || Software version || Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 17}} || Regulation || The Internal Revenue Service sends a request (a John Doe summons) to Coinbase "asking for the records of all customers who bought virtual currency from the company from 2013 to 2015".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/business/dealbook/irs-is-seeking-tax-evaders-who-use-bitcoin.html |date=November 18, 2016 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=Bitcoin Users Who Evade Taxes Are Sought by the I.R.S. |author=Nathaniel Popper |accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|December}} || || The inaugural issue of ''[[wikipedia:Ledger (journal)|Ledger]]'', the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coindesk.com/ledger-first-volume-blockchain-research/ |date=December 22, 2016 |title=Ledger Publishes First Volume of Peer-Reviewed Blockchain Research |author=Michael del Castillo |publisher=CoinDesk |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || {{dts|December}} || || The inaugural issue of ''[[wikipedia:Ledger (journal)|Ledger]]'', the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coindesk.com/ledger-first-volume-blockchain-research/ |date=December 22, 2016 |title=Ledger Publishes First Volume of Peer-Reviewed Blockchain Research |author=Michael del Castillo |publisher=CoinDesk |accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 8}} || || Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.14.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|January 1}} || || As of the start of 2017, thirteen US states have "clearly defined positions and/or regulations in regards to the blockchain and digital currency industry".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.dinbits.com/2017/01/state-of-regulation-2017-bitcoin-and.html |title=State of Regulation 2017, Bitcoin and Blockchain Regulation in the United States |date=January 17, 2017 |publisher=dinbits |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|February 27}} || || Coinbase announces that it will stop serving customers in Hawaii due to a regulatory change that requires the company to "hold cash reserves equal to any digital currency-denominated funds held for its customers".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-just-stopped-serving-bitcoin-hawaii/ |date=February 27, 2017 |title=Coinbase Just Stopped Serving Bitcoin Customers in Hawaii |publisher=CoinDesk |accessdate=June 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 8}} || Software version || Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.14.0 |title=Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 released |accessdate=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 10}} || Regulation || The United States [[wikipedia:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|Securities and Exchange Commission]] rejects the [[wikipedia:Winklevoss twins|Winklevoss twins]]' application for an exchange-traded fund tied to the price of Bitcoin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/business/dealbook/winkelvoss-brothers-bid-to-create-a-bitcoin-etf-is-rejected.html |date=March 10, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=S.E.C. Rejects Winklevoss Brothers' Bid to Create Bitcoin E.T.F. |author=Nathaniel Popper |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-etf-idUSKBN16H2NU |first1=Trevor |last1=Hunnicutt |first2=Gertrude |last2=Chavez-Dreyfuss |date=March 11, 2017 |publisher=Reuters |title=U.S. regulators reject Bitcoin ETF, digital currency plunges |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|April}} || Regulation || The cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announces it is suspending services in Washington State.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-poloniex-suspends-services-in-washington-state-impractical-policies/ |title=Poloniex Suspends Services in Washington State, Impractical Policies |publisher=CryptoCoinsNews |date=April 11, 2017 |accessdate=June 28, 2017 |author=Joseph Young}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|April 1}} || Regulation || A Japanese law that brings bitcoin exchanges under anti-money laundering and [[wikipedia:Know your customer|know your customer]] rules as well as recognizing bitcoin as a form of prepaid payment instrument comes into effect.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coindesk.com/japan-bitcoin-law-effect-tomorrow/ |date=April 1, 2017 |title=Japan's Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect Tomorrow |author=Garrett Keirns |publisher=CoinDesk |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-spikes-as-japan-recognizes-it-as-a-legal-payment-method-2017-4 |date=April 3, 2017 |title=Bitcoin spikes after Japan says it's a legal payment method |publisher=Business Insider |author=Jonathan Garber |accessdate=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|June 13}} || Regulation || Gemini, the digital currency exchange started by the [[wikipedia:Winklevoss twins|Winklevoss twins]], begins operating in Washington State after it is granted a license to do so.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2017/06/13/gemini-now-licensed-provide-digital-asset-exchange-services-washington-state/ |title=Gemini now licensed to provide digital asset exchange services in Washington State |publisher=CryptoNinjas |date=June 13, 2017 |accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|July 20}} || || Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91, to trigger [[wikipedia:SegWit|Segregated Witness]] (SegWit) activation, is locked in.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bip-91-has-activated-heres-what-means-and-what-it-does-not/ |publisher=Bitcoin Magazine |title=BIP 91 Has Activated. Here's What That Means (and What It Does Not) |author=Aaron van Wirdum |date=July 20, 2017 |accessdate=August 3, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 1}} || || A hard fork of bitcoin known as [[wikipedia:Bitcoin Cash|Bitcoin Cash]] occurs on this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/wtf-is-bitcoin-cash-and-is-it-worth-anything/ |date=August 2, 2017 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=WTF is bitcoin cash and is it worth anything? |author=Fitz Tepper |accessdate=August 3, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 2}} || || Bitcoin cash is already the third most valuable cryptocurrency –with a market value of US$7.6 billion, after {{w|Bitcoin}} (US$44.4 billion MV) and {{w|Ethereum}} (US$21 billion MV).<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin cash is already the third most valuable cryptocurrency|url=https://qz.com/1044413/bitcoin-cash-is-already-the-third-most-valuable-cryptocurrency/|website=qz.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{w|dts|August 4}} || Valuation || Bitcoin reaches record high valuation of US$3,000 per coin.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin breaks $3,000 to reach new all-time high|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/04/bitcoin-3000/|website=techcrunch.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 13}} || Valuation || Bitcoin breaks the US$4,000 mark.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin price breaks $4,000. Here’s why|url=https://qz.com/1052656/bitcoin-price-google-trends-can-help-you-figure-where-bitcoins-price-is-headed/|website=qz.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 15}} || || Blockstream, a Bitcoin software company, announces the launch of its Blockstream Satellite network, aimed at broadcasting bitcoin to people just about anywhere in the world irrespective of their internet connection — for free. The launch is expected to make the cryptocurrency more accessible to almost anyone, even in places where data costs are high and living standards and incomes are low.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Now Comes From Satellites in Space. Welcome to the Future.|url=https://futurism.com/bitcoin-now-comes-from-satellites-in-space-welcome-to-the-future/|website=futurism.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin launches into space to boost trading worldwide|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/bitcoin-launches-into-space/|website=zdnet.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin hitches a ride to space as satellites set to beam crypto down to earth|url=https://www.biznews.com/global-investing/2017/08/16/bitcoin-satellites-crypto-earth/|website=biznews.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Max Keiser, Peter Todd Debate Bitcoin in Space Post-Blockstream Announcement|url=https://cointelegraph.com/news/max-keiser-peter-todd-debate-bitcoin-in-space-post-blockstream-announcement|website=cointelegraph.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Bitcoin Network is Now in Outer Space|url=https://themerkle.com/the-bitcoin-network-is-now-in-space/|website=themerkle.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 17}} || || {{w|Australia}} announces plan to strengthen its anti-money laundering laws and regulate digital currencies such as Bitcoin, following a similar move by {{w|Japan}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australia follows Japan in move to regulate bitcoin|url=https://www.ft.com/content/4cd5cc3c-8309-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff|website=ft.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Australia proposes stronger money laundering rules, includes bitcoin|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-moneylaundering/australia-proposes-stronger-money-laundering-rules-includes-bitcoin-idUSKCN1AX06N|website=reuters.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin latest news: Australia crackdown on cryptocurrency funding terrorism|url=https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/842481/Bitcoin-latest-news-live-cryptocurrency-terrorism-funding-Australia-rules|website=express.co.uk|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|September 2 || Valuation || Bitcoin's price rises above US$5,000 for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Breaks $5,000 in Latest Price Frenzy|url=http://fortune.com/2017/09/02/bitcoin-price-breaks-5000/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=$5,000: Bitcoin Price Hits Historic New Milestone|url=https://www.coindesk.com/5000-bitcoin-price-hits-historic-new-milestone/|website=coindesk.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|September 8}} || || Russia’s Finance Minister {{w|Anton Siluanov}} announces plan to regulate the circulation of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies involving Russian citizens and firms.<ref>{{cite web|title=Russia is Working on Legalizing Status of Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies: RT|url=https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-is-working-on-legalizing-status-of-bitcoin-other-cryptocurrencies-rt|website=cointelegraph.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=‘They’re real’: Russia eyes regulating Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies|url=https://www.rt.com/business/402594-cryptocurrency-russia-regulation-law/|website=rt.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Russia to regulate Bitcoin market: finance minister|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-bitcoin/russia-to-regulate-bitcoin-market-finance-minister-idUSKCN1BJ1WB|website=reuters.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|September 29}} || || Japan's {{w|Financial Services Agency}} (FSA) issues operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges.<ref>{{cite web|title=Japan Endorses 11 Different Crypto Exchanges, Turns Into Friendliest Asian Bitcoin Market|url=Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges.|website=bitcoin.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Japan Issues Licenses for 11 Bitcoin Exchanges|url=https://www.coindesk.com/japans-finance-regulator-issues-licenses-for-11-bitcoin-exchanges/|website=coindesk.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 11}} || || The {{w|Central Bank of Russia}} announces it would support moves to block websites dealing in bitcoin and other virtual currencies, amidst declarations of President Vladimir Putin denouncing the cryptocurrency as risky and used by criminals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Putin, Russian central bank come down hard against bitcoin|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/putin-russian-central-bank-come-down-hard-against-bitcoin-2017-10-10|website=marketwatch.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Worse Than ‘the Russians’: Kansas Panel Prohibits Bitcoin Campaign Contributions|url=https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/worse-than-the-russians-kansas-panel-prohibits-bitcoin-campaign-contributions/|website=cryptocoinsnews.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 16}} || || {{w|IBM}} and a network of banks begin using digital currency and {{w|blockchain}} software to move money across borders throughout the {{w|South Pacific}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=IBM and Stellar Are Launching Blockchain Banking Across Multiple Countries|url=http://fortune.com/2017/10/16/ibm-blockchain-stellar/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 20}} || Valuation || Bitcoin breaks above US$6,000, and around $100 billion in total market value for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin breaks above $6,000, and $100 billion in value for the first time in its history|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-breaks-above-6000-nears-100-billion-value-for-the-first-time-in-its-history-2017-10-20|website=marketwatch.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Price Breaks $6,000 at New All-Time High|url=http://fortune.com/2017/10/20/bitcoin-price-record-high-2/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|November 2}} || Valuation || Bitcoin surpasses the US$7,000 mark for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin smashes past $7,000 for the first time|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/bitcoin-rallies-to-another-record-high-of-6900.html|website=cnbc.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/bitcoin-surges-past-7-000-to-extend-record-rally-this-year|website=bloomberg.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Just Surged Past $7,000. Here's Why|url=http://fortune.com/2017/11/02/buy-bitcoin-price-7000-cme/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|November 29}} || Valuation || Bitcoin value reaches US$10,000 for the first time, a more than 10-fold increase in value over the course of the year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin breaks through $10,000 as appeal grows|url=https://www.ft.com/content/cc422666-d4b0-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9|website=ft.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin has broken the $10,000 barrier – and this run can go further|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/29/bitcoin-broken-10000-dollar-barrier-frenzy-bubble|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin explained: Its history, why is it so valuable, and will the bubble burst?|url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/bitcoin-explained-history-price-controversy-bubble-2166807|website=nme.com|accessdate=25 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 1}} || Policy || Unites States regulator {{w|Commodity Futures Trading Commission}} (CFTC) announces it would let the {{w|Chicago Mercantile Exchange}} and {{w|Chicago Board Options Exchange}} trade in Bitcoin-related financial contracts. The news would render Bitcoin valuation rise further.<ref>{{cite web|title=US regulator approves Bitcoin trading|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42199260|website=bbc.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Futures Are About To Be a Thing and It's Sending Prices Soaring|url=http://fortune.com/2017/12/01/bitcoin-price-cme-cftc-futures/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Heads to Wall Street Whether Regulators Are Ready or Not|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/bitcoin-futures-to-start-trading-as-regulators-rush-to-catch-up|website=bloomberg.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Cheng|first1=Evelyn|title=CME to launch bitcoin futures in three weeks after green light from regulator; bitcoin jumps|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/cme-says-its-launching-bitcoin-futures-on-dec-18.html|website=cnbc.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 17}} || Valuation || CoinDesk Bitcoin price index reaches an all-time high of $19,783.21.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Hits a New Record High, But Stops Short of $20,000|url=http://fortune.com/2017/12/17/bitcoin-record-high-short-of-20000/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin plunges over 20% from December highs as cryptocurrency crackdown fear gains strength worldwide|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/market/bitcoin-plunges-over-20-from-december-highs-as-cryptocurrency-crackdown-fear-gains-strength-worldwide/1018356/|website=financialexpress.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin too good to be true?|url=http://business.inquirer.net/244306/bitcoin-good-true|website=business.inquirer.net|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin trading starts on the huge CME exchange|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42386893|website=bbc.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="From $900 to $20,000: Bitcoin's Historic 2017 Price Run Revisited">{{cite web|last1=Higgins|first1=Stan|title=From $900 to $20,000: Bitcoin's Historic 2017 Price Run Revisited|url=https://www.coindesk.com/900-20000-bitcoins-historic-2017-price-run-revisited/|website=coindesk.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 28}} || Policy || South Korea’s government announces imposition of additional measures to regulate speculation in cryptocurrency trading within the country. This would unleash a negative impact on Bitcoin's valuation across the globe.<ref>{{cite web|title=South Korea to impose new curbs on cryptocurrency trading|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-bitcoin/south-korea-to-impose-new-curbs-on-cryptocurrency-trading-idUSKBN1EM05K|website=reuters.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin falls $1,000 after South Korea promises crackdown on trading|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/28/bitcoin-falls-south-korea-crackdown-trading|website=theguardian.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|January 17}} || Valuation || Bitcoin price falls to as low as $9,199.59, half its peak price, falling almost 19 percent within 24 hours, after Chinese authorities say they will strengthen a ban put in place late in 2017 to prevent its citizens from using cryptocurrency exchanges.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Plunges to $10,000, Half Its Peak Price, as Investor Fears Blossom|url=http://fortune.com/2018/01/17/bitcoin-price-crash-regulation/|website=fortune.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin sinks below $10,000 and is now 50% off all-time high as cryptocurrency sell-off deepens|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/cryptocurrency-sell-off-continues-as-bitcoin-ethereum-sink.html|website=cnbc.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin drops below $10,000 as regulatory fears intensify|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/17/bitcoin-drops-below-10000-as-regulatory-fears-intensify/|website=venturebeat.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin’s Price Is Plunging and Here’s Who to Blame|url=http://time.com/money/5105008/bitcoin-plummets-as-more-governments-crack-down-on-cryptocurrencies/|website=time.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Regulatory fears hammer bitcoin below $10,000, half its peak|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-bitcoin/regulatory-fears-hammer-bitcoin-below-10000-half-its-peak-idUSKBN1F60CG|website=reuters.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|January 31}} || Mining || Within its semiconductor business called Foundry, Samsung starts mass producing bitcoin mining chips in partnership with an unidentified Chinese mining company.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Chris|title=Samsung entering the Bitcoin game with new cryptocurrency mining chips|url=http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/samsung-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-game-wit-3385266|website=trustedreviews.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Samsung Enters the Bitcoin Mining ASIC Manufacturing Business|url=https://news.bitcoin.com/samsung-enters-bitcoin-mining-asic-manufacturing-business/|website=news.bitcoin.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Vincent|first1=James|title=Samsung’s now making chips designed for cryptocurrency mining|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16954366/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-mining-asic-chips-samsung|website=theverge.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Milano|first1=Annaliese|title=Samsung Is Now Building Bitcoin Mining Chips, Report Says|url=https://www.coindesk.com/samsung-is-now-building-bitcoin-mining-chips-report-says/|website=coindesk.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Samsung is making chips designed to mine cryptocurrencies like bitcoin|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/samsung-cryptocurrency-mining-semiconductor-chips.html|website=cnbc.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|January 31}} || Policy || Facebook bans people entirely from advertising bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies amid fears they are used for fraud.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin latest: Facebook bans all ads promoting cryptocurrency amid fears they are used for fraud|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-price-latest-value-facebook-ban-ads-cryptocurrency-ico-scam-fraud-warning-a8186646.html|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bitcoin price LIVE: Bitcoin falls to $9k as Facebook bans 'deceptive' crypto ads|url=https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/912389/bitcoin-price-live-ripple-ethereum-rising-falling-blockchain-plunge|website=express.co.uk|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Wagner|first1=Kurt|title=Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies — including bitcoin and ICOs|url=https://www.recode.net/2018/1/30/16950926/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-bans-crypto-advertising-bitcoin-james-altucher|website=recode.net|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Facebook bans cryptocurrency ads due to frequent fraud|url=https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/facebook-bans-cryptocurrency-ads/#uAbWr8AMQmq7|website=mashable.com|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2140 || || Mining || The last bitcoin will be mined around this year due to block reward halving.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10486/when-will-the-last-bitcoin-be-mined |title=When will the last Bitcoin be mined? |accessdate=June 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term |title=Controlled supply - Bitcoin Wiki |accessdate=June 23, 2017 |quote=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.}}</ref>
 
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Revision as of 13:04, 31 January 2018

This is a timeline of Bitcoin.

Big picture

Time period Development summary More details
1976–2002 Background research The key advances in public-key cryptography, proof-of-work systems, etc., are made during this period.
2003–2007 Lull? (This is the period during which anyone with sufficient knowledge and insight could have invented Bitcoin, but nobody did.)
2008–2010 Early days of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper is published, the Bitcoin client is released, and some "firsts" take place, like the first trade for fiat money and first trade for a good. Satoshi Nakamoto is still around during this period.
2011–2012 Continued development Satoshi Nakamoto disappears, but Bitcoin growth continues. Silk Road, BitPay, and Coinbase all launch during this period.
2013–??  ??
2017 Mainstream popularity Bitcoin sees a roughly 20-fold rise since the beginning of the year, growing also exponentially in popularity. Throughout 2017, Bitcoin value would grow from US$900 to almost US$20,000.

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
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 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]
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 Software version 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 Software version 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 Mining 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 Software version 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 Mining 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 Casascius coins are first created.[42]
2011 January 6 First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.[18][43]
2011 February Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, launches.[44] 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.[45] 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.[46]
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.[47][48]
2011 May 20 The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[49]
2011 June 1 The Gawker piece on Silk Road is published.[50][51]
2011 June 14 Gavin Andresen gives a talk on Bitcoin at the CIA.[10][52][53]
2011 June 15 Mining The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[54]
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.[55] 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][56][57]
2011 August 19 The first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is submitted, explaining what a BIP is.[58][59]
2011 August (late) Conference The Bitcoin Conference & World Expo NYC 2011, organized by Bruce Wagner of The Bitcoin Show, takes place.[10]
2011 September 23 Software version Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.[60]
2011 November 21 Software version 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."[61]
2012 March 30 Software version Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.[62]
2012 April 24 Satoshi Dice (now called MegaDice), a betting site, is announced on Bitcoin Talk by Erik Voorhees.[63][64]
2012 May 30 The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[65]
2012 June Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[66][67]
2012 September 27 The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[68][51]
2012 September 17 Software version Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.[69]
2012 November 15 WordPress.com begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.[18][70]
2013 Mining The Bitcoin startup 21 is founded as 21e6. The company produces specialized bitcoin mining chips and also works toward the mass adoption of bitcoin by "building bitcoin products for the general public".[71][10]
2013 January 31 Mining The first application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed for Bitcoin mining are shipped.[51]
2013 February 14 The social news aggregation website Reddit begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).[18][72][73]
2013 February 15 The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[74]
2013 February 19 Software version 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."[75]
2013 March 3 Conference A secretive technology conference for "tech-industry power players" takes place. At the conference, Wences Casares introduces or explains Bitcoin to business leaders including Reid Hoffman, Michael Ovitz, and Henry Blodget.[10][76]
2013 March 6 The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[77]
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.[78][79][80]
2013 March 18 Regulation The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) releases guidance on using virtual currencies.[81][51]
2013 March 28 Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.[82][14]
2013 April 11 The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[83]
2013 May 7 Coinbase announces "the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures".[84][51]
2013 May 14 The Dwolla account belonging to Mt. Gox is frozen due to a seizure warrant issued by the Department of Homeland Security.[85][86][51]
2013 May 17 Conference The first official Bitcoin conference takes place in San Jose.[51]
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".[87]
2013 September 26 SecondMarket begins raising money for the Bitcoin Investment Trust, an investment fund holding only bitcoins.[88]
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.[89] The paper is announced on the authors' blog on November 4.[90] The paper receives coverage on Vice,[91] Bitcoin Magazine,[92] and Bitcoin Talk.[93][51]
2013 November 18 Regulation "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."[94]
2013 November 20 The University of Nicosia in Cyprus becomes the first university to accept payment for tuition in bitcoin.[51][95][96]
2014 January 9 Overstock.com becomes the first major online retailer to accept payments in bitcoin.[97][51] In December 2013 the company had announced that it was preparing to accept bitcoin.[98]
2014 January 26 Charlie Shrem is arrested. He is accused of using his company, BitInstant, to "knowingly convert money into virtual currency for people interested in buying narcotics on the Silk Road site" and of buying drugs on Silk Road.[99]
2014 February 7 The bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts all bitcoin withdrawals.[100]
2014 February 10 The February 10, 2014 flash crash occurs on the BTC-e exchange.[101]
2014 March 19 Software version 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."[102]
2014 March 25 Regulation In its first substantive ruling on cryptocurrencies, the Internal Revenue Service states that Bitcoin will be treated as property for tax purposes.[103][104]
2014 May 15 The DOS Stoned incident occurs.[105]
2014 August 11 The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau begins taking complaints about Bitcoin.[106][107]
2014 September 18 Coin Center, a non-profit group focused on cryptocurrency research and advocacy, is established.[108]
2015 February 16 Software version Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.[109]
2015 June 4 Regulation Coinbase suspends operations in Wyoming due to a regulatory legislation.[110]
2015 July 12 Software version Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.[111]
2015 August 8 Regulation The BitLicense, a business license for virtual currency activities, comes into effect in New York. The regulation causes numerous bitcoin companies to suspend operations in New York.[112]
2015 October 8 Gemini, the digital currency exchange started by the Winklevoss twins, begins trading.[113]
2015 December 16 A working group under the Financial System Council has compiled a draft proposal on regulations for virtual currencies that are traded on the Internet".[114]
2016 February 23 Software version Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.[115]
2016 August 2 The Bitfinex hack is first announced.[116]
2016 August 23 Software version Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.[117]
2016 November 17 Regulation The Internal Revenue Service sends a request (a John Doe summons) to Coinbase "asking for the records of all customers who bought virtual currency from the company from 2013 to 2015".[118]
2016 December The inaugural issue of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.[119]
2017 January 1 As of the start of 2017, thirteen US states have "clearly defined positions and/or regulations in regards to the blockchain and digital currency industry".[120]
2017 February 27 Coinbase announces that it will stop serving customers in Hawaii due to a regulatory change that requires the company to "hold cash reserves equal to any digital currency-denominated funds held for its customers".[121]
2017 March 8 Software version Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.[122]
2017 March 10 Regulation The United States Securities and Exchange Commission rejects the Winklevoss twins' application for an exchange-traded fund tied to the price of Bitcoin.[123][124]
2017 April Regulation The cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announces it is suspending services in Washington State.[125]
2017 April 1 Regulation A Japanese law that brings bitcoin exchanges under anti-money laundering and know your customer rules as well as recognizing bitcoin as a form of prepaid payment instrument comes into effect.[126][127]
2017 June 13 Regulation Gemini, the digital currency exchange started by the Winklevoss twins, begins operating in Washington State after it is granted a license to do so.[128]
2017 July 20 Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91, to trigger Segregated Witness (SegWit) activation, is locked in.[129]
2017 August 1 A hard fork of bitcoin known as Bitcoin Cash occurs on this day.[130]
2017 August 2 Bitcoin cash is already the third most valuable cryptocurrency –with a market value of US$7.6 billion, after Bitcoin (US$44.4 billion MV) and Ethereum (US$21 billion MV).[131]
2017 dts Valuation Bitcoin reaches record high valuation of US$3,000 per coin.[132]
2017 August 13 Valuation Bitcoin breaks the US$4,000 mark.[133]
2017 August 15 Blockstream, a Bitcoin software company, announces the launch of its Blockstream Satellite network, aimed at broadcasting bitcoin to people just about anywhere in the world irrespective of their internet connection — for free. The launch is expected to make the cryptocurrency more accessible to almost anyone, even in places where data costs are high and living standards and incomes are low.[134][135][136][137][138]
2017 August 17 Australia announces plan to strengthen its anti-money laundering laws and regulate digital currencies such as Bitcoin, following a similar move by Japan.[139][140][141]
2017 September 2 Valuation Bitcoin's price rises above US$5,000 for the first time.[142][143]
2017 September 8 Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announces plan to regulate the circulation of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies involving Russian citizens and firms.[144][145][146]
2017 September 29 Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) issues operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges.[147][148]
2017 October 11 The Central Bank of Russia announces it would support moves to block websites dealing in bitcoin and other virtual currencies, amidst declarations of President Vladimir Putin denouncing the cryptocurrency as risky and used by criminals.[149][150]
2017 October 16 IBM and a network of banks begin using digital currency and blockchain software to move money across borders throughout the South Pacific.[151]
2017 October 20 Valuation Bitcoin breaks above US$6,000, and around $100 billion in total market value for the first time.[152][153]
2017 November 2 Valuation Bitcoin surpasses the US$7,000 mark for the first time.[154][155][156]
2017 November 29 Valuation Bitcoin value reaches US$10,000 for the first time, a more than 10-fold increase in value over the course of the year.[157][158][159]
2017 December 1 Policy Unites States regulator Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announces it would let the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange trade in Bitcoin-related financial contracts. The news would render Bitcoin valuation rise further.[160][161][162][163]
2017 December 17 Valuation CoinDesk Bitcoin price index reaches an all-time high of $19,783.21.[164][165][166][167][168]
2017 December 28 Policy South Korea’s government announces imposition of additional measures to regulate speculation in cryptocurrency trading within the country. This would unleash a negative impact on Bitcoin's valuation across the globe.[169][170]
2018 January 17 Valuation Bitcoin price falls to as low as $9,199.59, half its peak price, falling almost 19 percent within 24 hours, after Chinese authorities say they will strengthen a ban put in place late in 2017 to prevent its citizens from using cryptocurrency exchanges.[171][172][173][174][175]
2018 January 31 Mining Within its semiconductor business called Foundry, Samsung starts mass producing bitcoin mining chips in partnership with an unidentified Chinese mining company.[176][177][178][179][180]
2018 January 31 Policy Facebook bans people entirely from advertising bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies amid fears they are used for fraud.[181][182][183][184]
2140 Mining The last bitcoin will be mined around this year due to block reward halving.[185][186]

Mentions on Google Scholar

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

Year bitcoin (Lopp)[187] blockchain (Lopp)[188] bitcoin (as of June 12, 2017)[189] blockchain (as of June 12, 2017)[190]
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.[191]

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

How the timeline was built

Funding information for this timeline is available.

What the timeline is still missing

Timeline update strategy

See also

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