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** You will discover some historic events, like two pizzas having been ordered in exchange for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010. | ** You will discover some historic events, like two pizzas having been ordered in exchange for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010. |
Revision as of 18:56, 4 January 2020
This is a timeline of Bitcoin, attempting to describe the evolution of the cryptocurrency and its influence around the world. All Bitcoin Core version updates are included.
Contents
Sample questions
The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
- How did Bitcoin Core evolve over time?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Software version".
- You will see a complete list of all Bitcoin Core version updates.
- What are some milestone transactions involving Bitcoin?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Milestone transaction".
- You will discover some historic events, like two pizzas having been ordered in exchange for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010.
- What are some historic heists and hacks involving Bitcoins?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Security".
- You will discover some important heists, like the Mt. Gox hack, Bitcoin's biggest heist to date.
- What are some several notable created bitcoin forks?
- Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Bitcoin fork".
- You will see a list of major forks.
Big picture
Time period | Development summary | More details |
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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. |
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 | First crash | The price of one Bitcoin reaches US$1,000 for the first time. Shortly after, the price quickly begins to decline, plummetting to around U$300. It would take more than two years before the price reached $1,000 again.[1] |
2014–2016 | Temporal stall | In January 2014, Mt.Gox, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, goes offline, and the owners lose 850,000 Bitcoins.[1] This is considered the biggest Bitcoin heist in history. Quickly the Bitcoin price falls below $1,000 around the time, and would struggle below the key level for a few years.[2] |
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. |
2018 | Bitcoin crash | In January, the Great crypto crash occurs. After an unprecedented boom in 2017, the price of Bitcoin falls by about 65 percent during the month from 6 January to 6 February. In late March, Facebook, Google, and Twitter ban advertisements for initial coin offerings (ICO) and token sales.[3] The price steadily drops all year.[2] By November 15, Bitcoin's market capitalization falls below US$100 billion for the first time since October 2017 and the price of Bitcoin falls to $5,500.[4][5] |
2019 | Resurgence | Bitcoin sees a new resurgence in price and volume, rising to around US$10,000. As of the end of 2019, the price of one Bitcoin is of around US$7,250. |
Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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1976 | Early development | The first public work on public-key cryptography is published.[6] Public-key cryptography is used in Bitcoin for specifying ownership of coins.[7] | |
1979 | Early development | The Merkle tree is patented by Ralph Merkle.[6] | |
1991 | Literature | Haber and Stornetta's paper on linked timestamping is published.[8]:15 | |
1992–1993 | Early development | A proof-of-work system for email spam is presented.[6] | |
1997 | March 28 | Early development | Adam Back proposes Hashcash on the Cypherpunks mailing list.[6][9] |
1998 | Literature | Wei Dai's b-money paper is published.[6] | |
1998 | Early development | Nick Szabo claims to have had the idea of Bitgold as early as this year. He would only blog about the idea in 2005.[8]:17 | |
1999 | Early development | 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."[10]:165–167 | |
2001 | Early development | SHA-2 is first published.[6] Of the SHA-2 family of hash functions, SHA-256 would be used in Bitcoin for "integrity, block-chaining, and the hashcash cost-function".[7] | |
2002 | August 1 | Literature | Adam Back's Hashcash paper is published. This is the paper cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.[11] The paper also happens to be the most-recently-published reference in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper.[12] |
2002 | December 9–10 | Prelude | 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.[13][14] |
2007 | May | Leadership | Satoshi Nakamoto claims he starts coding Bitcoin around this time.[8]:18 |
2008 | August | Leadership | Satoshi Nakamoto emails Adam Back, the creator of hashcash, "asking him to look at a short paper describing something called Bitcoin".[15] |
2008 | August 18 | Early development | The bitcoin.org domain name is registered on this day.[6]
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2008 | August 22 | Leadership | 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.[16] |
2008 | October 3 | Literature | A version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper exists from this day.[16][17] |
2008 | November 1 | Literature | The first public version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", is published.[6][18] Depending on the time zone, this is October 31.[19] |
2008 | November 9 | Early development | The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.[19][20] |
2008 | November–December | Leadership | 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."[15] |
2009 | January 3 | Early development | The Bitcoin genesis block is established.[21][19] |
2009 | January 9 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.1 is released.[22] |
2009 | January 12 | Milestone transaction | The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney.[23] |
2009 | May | Early development | Martti Malmi emails Satoshi Nakamoto for the first time, expressing willingness to help with Bitcoin development.[15] |
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.[6][24] | |
2009 | October 5 | BTC–USD exchange rates are first posted by NewLibertyStandard, where $1 is worth 1,309.03 BTC.[19] "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."[25] | |
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.[19][26] Discussion about chat logs would only come almost a year later.[27] | |
2009 | October 12 | Milestone transaction | The first trade of bitcoin for fiat money takes place. Martti Malmi (Sirius) sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02.[23][28] |
2009 | November 22 | Content creation | Bitcoin Talk, a discussion forum about Bitcoin, is created.[29] |
2009 | December 16 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.[30] 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."[15] |
2009 | December 30 | The first difficulty increase occurs, from 1 to 1.18.[31][32][19] | |
2010 | February 6 | Exchange company | An early version of Bitcoin Market begins operating.[33] |
2010 | March 17 | Exchange company | BitcoinMarket.com starts operating as the first bitcoin exchange. The price per Bitcoin is of around US$0.003 at the time.[34] |
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."[15] |
2010 | May 22 | Milestone transaction | 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.[35][36][37] |
2010 | July | Exchange company | Ross Ulbricht begins the development of Silk Road.[15] |
2010 | July 6 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.3 is released.[38] |
2010 | July 11 | Software version | 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."[15][39] |
2010 | July 18 | Exchange company | Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange founded by Jed McCaleb, is announced.[40][41] McCaleb had heard about Bitcoin from the Slashdot post several days earlier.[15] |
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.[19][42] |
2010 | July (late) | Content creation | Martti Malmi launches the non-English Bitcoin forum, in Russian.[15] |
2010 | September 9 | Content creation | The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.[43] |
2010 | October 17 | Content creation | The Freenode IRC channel #bitcoin-otc is established. (Citation gives this date but does not provide a source.)[19] |
2010 | November 6 | Market capitalization | Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 million.[19][44] |
2010 | December 12 | Literature | The last post from the "satoshi" account on Bitcoin Talk is from this day.[45] |
2010 | December 19 | Gavin Andresen announces that he is stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".[46][47] | |
2011 | Physical bitcoin | Casascius coins are first created.[48] | |
2011 | January 6 | Milestone transaction | First documented payment for work using bitcoin takes place around this time.[23][49] |
2011 | February | Exchange company | Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, launches.[50] Silk Road is the first darknet market to use both Tor and Bitcoin escrow. |
2011 | April 16 | Literature | Jerry Brito's "Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks" is published on Time.[51] Nathaniel Popper calls this "the first mainstream news coverage for Bitcoin".[15] |
2011 | April 27 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.3.21 is released.[52] |
2011 | April (late) – May (early) | Leadership | The final emails from Satoshi Nakamoto are from this period.[15] |
2011 | May | Payment service provider | BitPay, a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.[53] |
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.[54][55] | |
2011 | May 20 | Content creation | The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[56] |
2011 | June 1 | The Gawker piece on Silk Road is published.[57][58] | |
2011 | June 1 | Exchange company | BTCC launches as a bitcoin trading platform that enables its users to buy and sell bitcoins in the native Chinese CNY currency.[59] |
2011 | June 5 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.3.22 is released.[60] |
2011 | June 14 | Gavin Andresen gives a talk on Bitcoin at the CIA.[15][61][62] | |
2011 | June 14 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.3.23 is released.[63] |
2011 | June 15 | Content creation | The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[64] |
2011 | June 19 | Security | Mt. Gox is hacked, causing the price of bitcoin to drop "from $17 to 1 penny in less than an hour".[15][65] |
2011 | July 8 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.3.24 is released.[66] |
2011 | July 26 | Security | The Polish exchange site Bitomat temporarily goes offline.[67] It would later be announced that the private keys belonging to customers' Bitcoin addresses were accidentally deleted.[15] |
2011 | July 28 | Exchange company | Kraken launches in the United States.[68][69] |
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."[15][70][71] | |
2011 | July | Security | The operator of Bitomat, the third-largest bitcoin exchange, announces having lost access to his wallet.dat file with about 17,000 bitcoins (roughly equivalent to US$220,000 at that time). He announces that he would sell the service for the missing amount, aiming to use funds from the sale to refund his customers.[72] |
2011 | August 19 | The first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is submitted, explaining what a BIP is.[73][74] | |
2011 | August (late) | Conference | The Bitcoin Conference & World Expo NYC 2011, organized by Bruce Wagner of The Bitcoin Show, takes place.[15] |
2011 | September 23 | Software version | Bitcoin version 0.4.0 is released.[75] |
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."[76] |
2011 | December 15 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.1 is released.[77] |
2012 | January 9 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.2 is released.[78] |
2012 | March 14 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.3 is released.[79] |
2012 | March 16 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.3.1 is released.[80] |
2012 | March 30 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.0 is released.[81] |
2012 | April 24 | Satoshi Dice (now called MegaDice), a betting site, is announced on Bitcoin Talk by Erik Voorhees.[82][83] | |
2012 | May 4 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.1 is released.[84] |
2012 | May 8 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.2 is released.[85] |
2012 | May 30 | Content creation | The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[86] |
2012 | June | Exchange company | Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[87][88] |
2012 | June 15 | Exchange company | LocalBitcoins is founded.[89] |
2012 | June 25 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.6.3 is released.[90] |
2012 | August | Exchange company | Coincheck is founded. It operates a bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Japan.[91] |
2012 | September 27 | Organization | The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[92][58] |
2012 | September 17 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.0 is released.[93] |
2012 | October 19 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 is released.[94] |
2012 | November 15 | Milestone transaction | WordPress.com begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of upgrades.[23][95] |
2012 | December 14 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.2 is released.[96] |
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".[97][15] | |
2013 | January 31 | Mining | The first application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed for Bitcoin mining are shipped.[58] |
2013 | February 14 | Milestone transaction | The social news aggregation website Reddit begins accepting bitcoins for the purchase of reddit gold (reddit's premium membership).[23][98][99] |
2013 | February 15 | Content creation | The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[100] |
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."[101] |
2013 | March 2 | CloudHashing is founded. It is a bitcoin mining-as-a-service company offering cloud mining contracts.[102] | |
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.[15][103] |
2013 | March 6 | Content creation | The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[104] |
2013 | March 12 | Bitcoin fork | 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.[105][106][107] |
2013 | March 18 | Regulation | The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) releases guidance on using virtual currencies.[108][58] |
2013 | March 18 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1 is released.[109] |
2013 | March 28 | Market capitalization | Bitcoin market capitalization passes $1 billion.[110][19] |
2013 | April 11 | Content creation | The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[111] |
2013 | May 7 | Coinbase announces "the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures".[112][58] | |
2013 | May 14 | Legal | The Dwolla account belonging to Mt. Gox is frozen due to a seizure warrant issued by the Department of Homeland Security.[113][114][58] |
2013 | May 17 | Conference | The first official Bitcoin conference takes place in San Jose.[58] |
2013 | May 29 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 is released.[115] |
2013 | June 23 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is released.[116] |
2013 | July 23 | Legal | 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".[117] |
2013 | July 30 | Organization | BitGive Foundation is founded.[118] |
2013 | August | Regulation | The German Finance Ministry characterizes Bitcoin as a unit of account,[119] usable in multilateral clearing circles and subject to capital gains tax if held less than one year.[120] |
2013 | September 3 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 is released.[121] |
2013 | September 13 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5 is released.[122] |
2013 | September 26 | SecondMarket begins raising money for the Bitcoin Investment Trust, an investment fund holding only bitcoins.[123] | |
2013 | October 29 | Technology | The first Bitcoin ATM in the world opens in Vancouver, Canada.[124] |
2013 | November 1 | Literature | The initial version of "Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable" by Eyal and Sirer is uploaded to the preprint repository arXiv.[125] The paper is announced on the authors' blog on November 4.[126] The paper receives coverage on Vice,[127] Bitcoin Magazine,[128] and Bitcoin Talk.[129][58] |
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."[130] |
2013 | November 20 | Milestone transaction | The University of Nicosia in Cyprus becomes the first university to accept payment for tuition in bitcoin.[58][131][132] |
2013 | December 9 | Software version | Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6 is released.[133] |
2013 | December | Regulation | The People’s Bank of China and four other financial regulators issue a joint notice outlining the risks associated with bitcoin. The Chinese Government states that it is not a currency, and prohibits banks and other financial institutes from trading in it. However, it acknowledges the cryptocurrency as a “commodity traded online” and allows the public to buy and sell it as they please, with its only proviso being that they do so at their own risk.[134] |
2014 | January 9 | Milestone transaction | Overstock.com becomes the first major online retailer to accept payments in bitcoin.[135][58] In December 2013 the company had announced that it was preparing to accept bitcoin.[136] |
2014 | January 9 | Exchange company | BitFlyer is founded in Japan.[137] |
2014 | January 26 | Legal | 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.[138] |
2014 | February 7 | Security | The bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts all bitcoin withdrawals due to insolvency after an apparently undetected theft that had been occurring since 2011.[139] By the end of the month, Mt. Gox would file for bankruptcy protection.[65] |
2014 | February 10 | A flash crash occurs on the BTC-e exchange.[140] | |
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."[141] |
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.[142][143] |
2014 | April 8 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 is released.[144] |
2014 | May 15 | The DOS Stoned incident occurs.[145] | |
2014 | June 16 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2 is released.[146] |
2014 | June 19 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2.1 is released.[147] |
2014 | August 11 | The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau begins taking complaints about Bitcoin.[148][149] | |
2014 | August | Technology | The bitcoin blockchain file size, containing records of all transactions that have occurred on the network, reaches 20GB (gigabytes).[150] |
2014 | September 18 | Research | Coin Center, a non-profit group focused on cryptocurrency research and advocacy, is established.[151] |
2014 | September 27 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3 is released.[152] |
2015 | February 16 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is released.[153] |
2015 | February | Technology | Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja publish a draft of the Lightning Network white paper.[154][155] |
2015 | April 27 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.10.1 is released.[156] |
2015 | May 19 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.10.2 is released.[157] |
2015 | June 4 | Regulation | Coinbase suspends operations in Wyoming due to a regulatory legislation.[158] |
2015 | July 12 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 is released.[159] |
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.[160] |
2015 | August 15 | Bitcoin fork | Bitcoin XT is initially released.[161] |
2015 | October 8 | Competition | Gemini, the digital currency exchange started by the Winklevoss twins, begins trading.[162] |
2015 | October 14 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.10.3 is released.[163] |
2015 | October 15 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.11.1 is released.[164] |
2015 | October | Blockchain company | Bitwala is founded in Germany as a blockchain banking service.[165] |
2015 | November 13 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.11.2 is released.[166] |
2015 | December 16 | Regulation | A working group under the Financial System Council compiles a draft proposal on regulations for virtual currencies that are traded on the Internet.[167] |
2015 | December | Bitcoin fork | Bitcoin Unlimited is created, giving users the freedom to choose their preferred block size and find the limit with a majority consensus. This allows them to track the largest proof-of-work, irrespective of its block size.[168] |
2016 | February 10 | Bitcoin fork | Bitcoin Classic is released.[169][170][171] |
2016 | February 23 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 is released.[172] |
2016 | June 11 | Market capitalization | Bitcoin market capitalization reaches US$ 10 billion.[173] |
2016 | April 15 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.12.1 is released.[174] |
2016 | August 2 | Security | The Bitfinex hack is first announced.[175] |
2016 | August 23 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is released.[176] |
2016 | October 27 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.13.1 is released.[177] |
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".[178] |
2016 | December | Literature | The inaugural issue of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, is published.[179] |
2016 | December | Literature | Ledger is first issued as the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology research.[180] |
2017 | January 1 | Regulation | 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".[181] |
2017 | January 3 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.13.2 is released.[182] |
2017 | February 27 | Regulation | 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".[183] |
2017 | March 8 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is released.[184] |
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.[185][186] |
2017 | April | Regulation | The cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announces it is suspending services in Washington State.[187] |
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.[188][189] |
2017 | April 22 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.14.1 is released.[190] |
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.[191] |
2017 | June 17 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.14.2 is released.[192] |
2017 | June | Research | The People's Bank of China establishes a research institute dedicated to digital currencies.[134][193] |
2017 | July 1 | Exchange company | Binance is founded.[194] |
2017 | July 20 | Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91, to trigger Segregated Witness (SegWit) activation, is locked in.[195] | |
2017 | August 1 | Bitcoin fork | A hard fork of bitcoin known as Bitcoin Cash occurs on this day.[196] |
2017 | August 2 | Valuation | 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).[197] |
2017 | August 4 | Valuation | Bitcoin reaches record high valuation of US$3,000 per coin.[198] |
2017 | August 13 | Valuation | Bitcoin breaks the US$4,000 mark.[199] |
2017 | August 15 | Broadcasting | 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.[200][201][202][203][204] |
2017 | August 17 | Regulation | Australia announces plan to strengthen its anti-money laundering laws and regulate digital currencies such as Bitcoin, following a similar move by Japan.[205][206][207] |
2017 | September 2 | Valuation | Bitcoin's price rises above US$5,000 for the first time.[208][209] |
2017 | September 8 | Regulation | Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announces plan to regulate the circulation of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies involving Russian citizens and firms.[210][211][212] |
2017 | September 14 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.15.0 is released.[213] |
2017 | September 19 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.15.0.1 is released.[214] |
2017 | September 29 | Regulation | Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) issues operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges.[215][216] |
2017 | October 11 | Policy | 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.[217][218] |
2017 | October 16 | Milestone transaction | IBM and a network of banks begin using digital currency and blockchain software to move money across borders throughout the South Pacific.[219] |
2017 | October 20 | Valuation | Bitcoin breaks above US$6,000.[220][221] |
2017 | October | Market capitalization | Bitcoin market capitalization reaches US$100 billion.[222] |
2017 | October 24 | Exchange company | Upbit launches in South Korea.[223][224][225] |
2017 | November 2 | Valuation | Bitcoin surpasses the US$7,000 mark for the first time.[226][227][228] |
2017 | November 11 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.15.1 is released.[229] |
2017 | November 12 | Bitcoin fork | Bitcoin Gold is launched as the second project to fork away from the Bitcoin blockchain to create a new coin in the year.[230][231][232][233] |
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.[234][235][236] |
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.[237][238][239][240] |
2017 | December 7 | Mining | The 16 millionth bitcoin is mined, with 5 million remaining.[241] |
2017 | December 17 | Valuation | CoinDesk Bitcoin price index reaches an all-time high of $19,783.21.[242][243][244][245][246] |
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.[247][248] |
2017 | December | Organization | Pineapple Fund is founded as a philanthropic project by an anonymous individual which gives away 5,057 bitcoins to 60 charities. The amount is valued at US$86 million in December 2017.[249][250][251][252] |
2018 | January 12 | Valuation | Amidst rumors that South Korea could be preparing to ban trading in cryptocurrency, the price of bitcoin depreciates by 12 percent.[253][254] |
2018 | January 16 | Bitconnect announces it would shut down its cryptocurrency exchange and lending operation after regulators from Texas and North Carolina issue a cease and desist order against it as it was suspected of being fraudulent.[255][256][257] | |
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.[258][259][260][261][262] |
2018 | January 26 | Security | Coincheck, Japan's largest cryptocurrency OTC market, is hacked. US$530 million of the NEM are stolen, and the loss is the largest ever by an incident of theft, which causes Coincheck to indefinitely suspend trading.[263] |
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.[264][265][266][267][268] |
2018 | January 31 | Policy | Facebook bans people entirely from advertising bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies amid fears they are used for fraud.[269][270][271][272] |
2018 | February | Legal | Several scientists working at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility are arrested for allegedly using one of the country's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins.[273][274][275] |
2018 | February | Policy | The Israeli government confirms that it would treat bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a kind of property instead of currency, making it therefore taxable as such.[276] |
2018 | February | Policy | Payment processors Visa and Mastercard re-classifiy bitcoin purchases viewing them as “cash advances,” a category that brings an additional 5% fee to those virtual currency purchases on credit cards.[277] |
2018 | February 26 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.16.0 is released.[278] |
2018 | March 14 | Policy | Google announces ban of all adverts for cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and initial coin offerings (ICOs), as it seeks to “tackle emerging threats”. Bitcoin valuation briefly falls below US$8,000 after the announcement.[279][280][281][282] |
2018 | April 26 | Mining | The 17 millionth of 21 million bitcoins is mined.[283] |
2018 | May 21 | Milestone transaction | Banco Masventas, a bank in Argentina, starts using Bitcoin for cross-border payments. [284] |
2018 | June 15 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.16.1 is released.[285] |
2018 | June 22 | Regulation | The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s top financial regulator, issues six new business improvement orders. The orders to Bitflyer, Tech Bureau, Bitpoint Japan, Btcbox, Bitbank, and Quoine follow the agency’s first rejection of a crypto exchange registration on June 7.[286] |
2018 | July 29 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.16.2 is released.[287] |
2018 | August | Technology | A reported 3,500 bitcoin ATMs (BATM) are installed worldwide.[288][289] |
2018 | September 28 | Software version | Bitcoin Core versions 0.15.2 and 0.14.3 are released.[290][291] |
2018 | September | Security | A Bitcoin Cash developer discovers the vulnerability CVE-2018-17144 in the Bitcoin Core software that could allow an attacker to crash vulnerable Bitcoin Core nodes and exceed the 21 million coin limit.[292] |
2018 | September 14 | Security | Hackers steal 6.7 billion yen (US$60 million) in Bitcoin and two other cryptocurrencies from Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif.[293][294][295] |
2018 | October 9 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0.1 is released.[296] |
2018 | November 15 | Bitcoin fork | A hard fork chain split of Bitcoin Cash occurs between two rival factions, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV.[297][298] On the first day, Bitcoin Cash trades at about US$289 and Bitcoin SV trades at about $96.50, down from $425.01 a day earlier for the un-split Bitcoin Cash.[299] |
2018 | December 25 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 is released.[300] |
2019 | May 2 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0 is released.[301] |
2019 | August 9 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.18.1 is released.[302] |
2019 | October 18 | Mining | The 18 millionth bitcoin is mined.[303][304][305] |
2019 | October 24 | Software version | Bitcoin Core version 0.19.0.1 is released.[306] |
2140 | Mining | The last bitcoin will be mined around this year due to block reward halving.[307][308] |
Mentions on Google Scholar
The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar.
Year | bitcoin (Lopp)[309] | blockchain (Lopp)[310] | bitcoin (as of June 12, 2017)[311] | blockchain (as of June 12, 2017)[312] |
---|---|---|---|---|
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.[313]
Year | Cumulative repositories |
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2009 | 0 |
2010 | 28 |
2011 | 370 |
2012 | 638 |
2013 | 2,184 |
2014 | 4,572 |
2015 | 6,884 |
2016 | 9,321 |
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
Funding information for this timeline is available.
What the timeline is still missing
- Visual data
Timeline update strategy
See also
External links
References
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