Category:History

November 09, 2008

 * Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net

January 3, 2009

 * Genesis block established at 18:15:05 GMT

January 11, 2009

 * Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [mailing list]

March 24, 2009

 * [design paper] published

December 16, 2009

 * Bitcoin v0.2 released

December 30, 2009

 * First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT

February 6, 2010

 * [Market] [[1]]

May 22, 2010

 * lazslo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [[2]] upon paying 10,000btc for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos

July 7, 2010

 * Bitcoin v0.3 released

July 11, 2010

 * Bitcoin v0.3 release [on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.

July 17, 2010

 * [Gox] [[3]]

July 18, 2010

 * ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm

August 15, 2010

 * 74638

September 14, 2010

 * jgarzik [[4]] 10,000btc (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client

September 18, 2010

 * puddinpop [[5]] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license

September 29, 2010

 * kermit [[6]] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release

October 01, 2010

 * First public OpenCL miner released

October 04, 2010

 * Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta)

October 28, 2010

 * First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to kiba, facilitated by the [[7]] market.

November 6, 2010

 * The [economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50.

December 7, 2010

 * Bitcoind was ported to the Nokia N900 phone by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first phone-to-phone Bitcoin transaction.

December 9, 2010

 * The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
 * First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to sgornick, via the [[8]] market.