https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Rjk&feedformat=atomBitcoin Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T15:35:35ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=28984Category:History2012-07-23T18:57:32Z<p>Rjk: switched from direct link to wiki link</p>
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<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=28983Category:History2012-07-23T18:54:12Z<p>Rjk: forgot a space</p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [https://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcoin forums] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=28982Category:History2012-07-23T18:53:36Z<p>Rjk: Added reference to the one millionth forum post on bitcointalk.org.</p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22,2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [https://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcoin forums] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
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* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
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==References==<br />
<references /></div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Church&diff=20048Bitcoin Church2011-11-27T18:48:26Z<p>Rjk: </p>
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<div>The church of bitcoin was founded on October 25th in order to grant bitcoin users a non regional spiritual outlet and to escape oppression by existing religious groups, it's homepage may be found [http://bitprayer.com/ here]<br />
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The Church of Bitcoin is guided by eleven principle commandments, they are:<br />
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1) Praise Satoshi.<br />
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2) Honor the blockchain.<br />
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3) Thou shalt not fork thine own family.<br />
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4) Keep the network holy.<br />
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5) Thou should not covet another mans wallet.<br />
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6) Do unto others as you would have them DDoS you.<br />
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7) Thou shalt not swear unto another man that thine payment hath not been received until all of the blockchain hath been downloadeth.<br />
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8) Salt thine passwords.<br />
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9) Hack thine planet.<br />
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10) Keep thine woman, Bruces and Atlases in separate camps if they are unclean.<br />
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11) Troll harder.</div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Church&diff=19993Bitcoin Church2011-11-26T21:10:41Z<p>Rjk: </p>
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<div>The church of bitcoin was founded on October 25th in order to grant bitcoin users a non regional spiritual outlet and to escape oppression by existing religious groups, it's homepage may be found [http://bitprayer.com/ here]<br />
<br />
The Church of Bitcoin is guided by eleven principle commandments, they are:<br />
<br />
1) Praise Satoshi.<br />
<br />
2) Honor the blockchain.<br />
<br />
3) Thou shalt not fork thine own family.<br />
<br />
4) Keep the network holy.<br />
<br />
5) Thou should not covet another mans wallet.<br />
<br />
6) Do unto others as you would have them DDoS you.<br />
<br />
7) Thou shalt not swear unto another man thine payment not recieveth until all of blockchain hath been downloadeth.<br />
<br />
8) Salt thine passwords.<br />
<br />
9) Hack thine planet.<br />
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10) Keep thine woman, Bruces and Atlases in separate camps if they are unclean.<br />
<br />
11) Troll harder.</div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Church&diff=19973Bitcoin Church2011-11-26T14:54:23Z<p>Rjk: Because of constant vandalization, please always check the latest edits by Deslok to ensure that you have the correct page instead of something that Luke-jr has modified.</p>
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<div><del>The church of bitcoin</del> Luke-jr is an evil troll.<br /><br />
Because of constant vandalization, please always check the latest edits by Deslok to ensure that you have the correct page instead of something that Luke-jr has modified.</div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Church&diff=19972Bitcoin Church2011-11-26T14:51:56Z<p>Rjk: </p>
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<div><del>The church of bitcoin</del> Luke-jr is an evil troll.</div>Rjkhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Litecoin&diff=19468Litecoin2011-11-16T04:40:15Z<p>Rjk: Undo revision 18952 by Luke-jr (talk) Thou shalt not vandalize wiki pages.</p>
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<div>Litecoin is an alternative crypto-currency.<br />
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[http://litecoin.org/ Litecoin's website]<br />
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==See also==<br />
[[Cryptocoin]]</div>Rjk