Talk:Timeline of cryptocurrencies
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The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
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| Year | Event type | Details |
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| 2008 (August) | Satoshi Nakamoto sends private emails to two renowned cypherpunks, Wei Dai and Hal Finney, requesting feedback on the early version of Bitcoin’s white paper. The request has encouraging response from both receivers, who find this work quite promising.[1] | |
| 2010 (June) | Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen launches the “Bitcoin Faucet” website. By using the domain freebitcoins.appspot.com, Andresen offers visitors the opportunity to earn 5 BTC per day simply by solving a captcha.[2] Today, a crypto faucet is an app or a website that distributes small amounts of cryptocurrencies as a reward for completing easy tasks.[3]
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| 2017 (January 10) | Between January 10, 2017 and October 18, 2018, Monero uses Ring Confidential Transaction technology to obfuscate transaction amounts on the blockchain. This allowed only the sender and recipient of the funds to know the true quantity being sent.[4] The currency would since switch to Bulletproofs.[5] | |
| 2017 (October) | Ethereum adds so-called zk-snarks (zero-knowledge- snarks) with their Byzantium update.[6] | |
| 2018 (December 13) | 2018 Bitcoin bomb threats |
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedTorres - ↑ "In 2010, the Bitcoin Faucet website gave away 19,700 BTC to visitors". Italy24 News English. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ↑ "What Is a Crypto Faucet? | CoinMarketCap". coinmarketcap.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ↑ "A low-level explanation of the mechanics of Monero vs Bitcoin in plain English".
- ↑ Bunz, Benedikt (November 1, 2017). "Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More". iarc.org. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ Hosp, Julian (21 December 2017). Cryptocurrencies Simply Explained - by Co-Founder Dr. Julian Hosp: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, ICOs, Decentralization, Mining & Co. Julian Hosp Coaching Limited. ISBN 978-988-14850-8-3.