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| 2011 || October 7 || Currency release || Litecoin is released. | | 2011 || October 7 || Currency release || Litecoin is released. | ||
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| − | | 2013 || December || || Open-source digital currency Dogecoin (DOGE) is forked from Litecoin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dogecoin price today, DOGE live marketcap, chart, and info |url=https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/ |website=CoinMarketCap |access-date=11 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> | + | | 2013 || December || || Open-source digital currency Dogecoin (DOGE) is forked from Litecoin. "Dogecoin (DOGE) is based on the popular "doge" Internet meme and features a Shiba Inu on its logo. The open-source digital currency was created by Billy Markus from Portland, Oregon and Jackson Palmer from Sydney, Australia, and was forked from Litecoin in December 2013. Dogecoin's creators envisaged it as a fun, light-hearted cryptocurrency that would have greater appeal beyond the core Bitcoin audience, since it was based on a dog meme. Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted several tweets on social media that Dogecoin is his favorite coin."<ref>{{cite web |title=Dogecoin price today, DOGE live marketcap, chart, and info |url=https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/ |website=CoinMarketCap |access-date=11 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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| 2014 || July || || Stablecoin Tether (USDT) is launched by Brock Pierce, Reeve Collins and Craig Sellars, originally launched as a Realcoin. It mirrors the price of the U.S. dollar, and is issued by a Hong Kong-based company Tether.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tether price today, USDT live marketcap, chart, and info |url=https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ |website=CoinMarketCap |access-date=11 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> | | 2014 || July || || Stablecoin Tether (USDT) is launched by Brock Pierce, Reeve Collins and Craig Sellars, originally launched as a Realcoin. It mirrors the price of the U.S. dollar, and is issued by a Hong Kong-based company Tether.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tether price today, USDT live marketcap, chart, and info |url=https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ |website=CoinMarketCap |access-date=11 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 08:53, 2 May 2021
This is a timeline of FIXME.
Contents
Sample questions
The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary | More details |
|---|
Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | "the idea behind the Ripple (XRP) payment platform was first voiced in 2004 by Ryan Fugger"[1] | ||
| 2009 | January 9 | Currency release | Bitcoin (BTC) 0.1.0 is released. |
| 2011 | October 7 | Currency release | Litecoin is released. |
| 2013 | December | Open-source digital currency Dogecoin (DOGE) is forked from Litecoin. "Dogecoin (DOGE) is based on the popular "doge" Internet meme and features a Shiba Inu on its logo. The open-source digital currency was created by Billy Markus from Portland, Oregon and Jackson Palmer from Sydney, Australia, and was forked from Litecoin in December 2013. Dogecoin's creators envisaged it as a fun, light-hearted cryptocurrency that would have greater appeal beyond the core Bitcoin audience, since it was based on a dog meme. Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted several tweets on social media that Dogecoin is his favorite coin."[2] | |
| 2014 | July | Stablecoin Tether (USDT) is launched by Brock Pierce, Reeve Collins and Craig Sellars, originally launched as a Realcoin. It mirrors the price of the U.S. dollar, and is issued by a Hong Kong-based company Tether.[3] | |
| 2014 | ? | "Monero was launched in 2014, and its goal is simple: to allow transactions to take place privately and with anonymity."[4] | |
| 2016 | June | VeChain launches.[5] | |
| 2017 | July 7 | Security | “One of the Biggest Ethereum and Bitcoin Exchanges Got Hacked” [6] |
| 2017 | September 27 | Cardano (ADA) is released. | |
| 2017 | ? | "BNB was launched through an initial coin offering in 2017, 11 days before the Binance cryptocurrency exchange went online"[7] | |
| 2019 | June | "The Algorand mainnet became live in June 2019, and was able to handle almost 1 million transactions per day as of December 2020."[8] |
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What the timeline is still missing
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See also
External links
References
- ↑ "XRP price today, XRP live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ↑ "Dogecoin price today, DOGE live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ↑ "Tether price today, USDT live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ↑ "Monero price today, XMR live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ↑ "VeChain price today, VET live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ↑ "One of the Biggest Ethereum and Bitcoin Exchanges Got Hacked". Fortune. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ "Binance Coin price today, BNB live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ↑ "Algorand price today, ALGO live marketcap, chart, and info". CoinMarketCap. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
