Timeline of Bitcoin

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This is a timeline of Bitcoin.

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Year Month and date Event type Details
2008 August 18 bitcoin.org is registered on this day.[1]
2008 November 1 The first public version of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", is published.[1][2]
2009 January 12 The first Bitcoin transaction takes place, from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney.[3]
2009 August 29 The first revision in the Bitcoin Git repository is made on this day. However this commit is converted from the Subversion revision control system.[1][4]
2009 October 12 The first trade of bitcoin for fiat money takes place. Martti Malmi (Sirius) sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02.[3][5]
2009 December 16 Bitcoin version 0.2 is released.[6]
2010 July Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange, is founded by Jed McCaleb.[7]
2010 September 9 The main Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 241,000 subscribers.[8]
2011 May BitPay, a bitcoin payment service provider, is founded.[9]
2011 May 20 The subreddit r/btc is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 40,000 subscribers.[10]
2011 June 15 The Bitcoin mining subreddit, r/BitcoinMining, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 13,000 subscribers.[11]
2012 May 30 The Bitcoin Magazine subreddit, r/BitcoinMagazine, is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 788 subscribers.[12]
2012 June Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company that operates exchanges of Bitcoin (among other digital currencies), is founded.[13][14]
2012 September The Bitcoin Foundation is founded.[15]
2013 February 15 The subreddit r/Jobs4Bitcoins is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 12,000 subscribers.[16]
2013 March 6 The subreddit r/BitcoinBeginners is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 14,000 subscribers.[17]
2013 April 11 The subreddit r/BitcoinMarkets is created. As of June 12, 2017 it has 34,000 subscribers.[18]
2016 August 2 The Bitfinex hack is first announced.[19]

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Year bitcoin (Lopp)[20] blockchain (Lopp)[21] bitcoin (as of June 12, 2017)[22] blockchain[23]
2009 83 97
2010 136 213 84
2011 218 224 252
2012 424 311 476
2013 1,390 477 1,480
2014 3,190 956 3,620
2015 3,670 1,440 3,470
2016 3,580 2,190 4,900
2017 1,920

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 gwern (May 27, 2011). "Bitcoin is Worse is Better". Gwern.net. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  2. "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper". November 1, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Bitcoin Firsts". Bitcoin Wiki. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  4. "First commit · bitcoin/bitcoin@4405b78". GitHub. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  5. "Martti Malmi on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Found the first known bitcoin to USD transaction from my email backups. I sold 5,050 BTC for $5,02 on 2009-10-12. 
  6. satoshi. "Bitcoin 0.2 released!". Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  7. Jed McCaleb (February 16, 2014). "Jed McCaleb interview". Gwern.net. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  8. "moderators - r/Bitcoin". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 6 years [Thu Sep 9 14:30:26 2010 UTC] 
  9. "BitPay". Crunchbase. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Founded: May 1, 2011 
  10. "moderators - r/btc". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 6 years [Fri May 20 10:07:02 2011 UTC] 
  11. "moderators - r/BitcoinMining". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 5 years [Wed Jun 15 16:20:02 2011 UTC] 
  12. "moderators - r/BitcoinMagazine". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 5 years [Wed May 30 07:48:30 2012 UTC] 
  13. "Coinbase - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin". Retrieved June 12, 2017. Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. 
  14. "Coinbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Founded: June 1, 2012  Crunchbase gives June 1 as the founding date, but Wikipedia gives June 20 with no citation.
  15. Matonis, Jon (September 27, 2012). "Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement". Forbes. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week 
  16. "moderators - r/Jobs4Bitcoins". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 4 years [Fri Feb 15 16:11:25 2013 UTC] 
  17. "moderators - r/BitcoinBeginners". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 4 years [Wed Mar 6 11:35:47 2013 UTC] 
  18. "moderators - r/BitcoinMarkets". Retrieved June 12, 2017. a community for 4 years [Thu Apr 11 08:23:13 2013 UTC] 
  19. Clare Baldwin (August 3, 2016). "Bitcoin worth $72 million stolen from Bitfinex exchange in Hong Kong". Reuters. Retrieved June 12, 2017. Bitcoin plunged just over 23 percent on Tuesday after the news broke. 
  20. "Jameson Lopp on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  21. "Jameson Lopp on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved June 12, 2017. 
  22. ""bitcoin"". Google Scholar. Retrieved June 12, 2017.  Change the year parameter to get the other years.
  23. ""blockchain" - Google Scholar". Retrieved June 12, 2017.  Change the year parameter to get the other years.