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= Important milestones of the Bitcoin project =
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== 2008 ==
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* August 18, 2008
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** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered – not by Satoshi<ref>According to this [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103369.msg1134057#msg1134057 forum post], it was not Satoshi himself but [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4 sirius] who registered the domain bitcoin.org before Satoshi released the white paper. Satoshi-hunters find this detail very important ;)</ref>.  
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* October 31, 2008
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! width="8em" | August 18
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** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
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|| Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered – not by Satoshi<ref>According to this [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103369.msg1134057#msg1134057 forum post], it was not Satoshi himself but [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4 sirius] who registered the domain bitcoin.org before Satoshi released the white paper. Satoshi-hunters find this detail very important ;)</ref>.
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* November 09, 2008
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** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
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! October 31
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* January 3, 2009
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|| [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
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** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
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* January 11, 2009
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! November 09
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** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]
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|| Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
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* January 12, 2009
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** 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>.
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== 2009 ==
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* December 16, 2009
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** Bitcoin v0.2 released
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* December 30, 2009
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! width="8em" | January 3
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** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
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|| [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
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* February 6, 2010
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** [[Bitcoin Market]] established
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! January 11
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* May 22, 2010
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|| Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]
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** 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
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* July 7, 2010
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! January 12
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** Bitcoin v0.3 released
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|| 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>.
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* July 11, 2010
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** 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.
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! December 16
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* July 12, 2010
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|| Bitcoin v0.2 released
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** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
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* July 17, 2010
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! December 30
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** [[MtGox]] established
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|| First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
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* July 18, 2010
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** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
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== 2010 ==
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* August 15, 2010
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** 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]]).
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* September 14, 2010
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! width="8em" | February 6
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** 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
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|| [[Bitcoin Market]] established
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* September 18, 2010
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** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
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! May 22
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* September 29, 2010
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|| 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
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** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
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* October 01, 2010
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! July 7
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** First public OpenCL miner released
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|| Bitcoin v0.3 released
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* October 04, 2010
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** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
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! July 11
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* October 07, 2010
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|| 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.
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** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
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* October 28, 2010
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! July 12
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** 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.
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|| Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
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* November 6, 2010
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** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
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! July 17
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* December 7, 2010
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|| [[MtGox]] established
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** 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.
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* December 9, 2010
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! July 18
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** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
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|| ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
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** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
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* December 16, 2010
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! August 15
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** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
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|| 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]]).
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* January 8, 2011
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** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.
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! September 14
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** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s
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|| 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
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* January 27, 2011
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** 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>
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! September 18
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* January 28, 2011
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|| puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
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** 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.
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* February 9, 2011
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! September 29
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** Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
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|| kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
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* February 10, 2011
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|-
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** 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.
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! October 01
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* February 14, 2011
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|| First public OpenCL miner released
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** 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>.
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* March 6, 2011
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! October 04
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** 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]).
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|| Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
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* March 18, 2011
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** 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.
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! October 07
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* March 25, 2011
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|| Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
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** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%.  A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
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* March 27, 2011
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! October 28
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** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.
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|| 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.
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* March 31, 2011
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** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
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! November 6
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* April 5, 2011
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|| The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
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** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
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* April 12, 2011
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! December 7
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** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
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|| 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.
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* April 16, 2011
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** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
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! December 9
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* April 23, 2011
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|| The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
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** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.
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** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.
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** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.
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|| First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
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* April 27, 2011
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** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
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! December 16
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* April 28, 2011
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|| [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
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** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
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* April 30, 2011
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== 2011 ==
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** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
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{| style="text-align: left"
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* June 2, 2011
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** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
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! width="8em" | January 8
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* June 8, 2011
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|| [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.
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** 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].
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|-
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* June 12, 2011
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** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.
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|| Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s
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* June 13, 2011
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|-
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** 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).
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! January 27
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* June 19, 2011
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|| 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>
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** 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.
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|-
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* June 19, 2011
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! January 28
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** 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).
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|| 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.
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* June 19, 2011
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** 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.
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! February 9
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* June 20, 2011
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|| Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
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** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
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|-
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* June 24, 2011
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! February 10
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** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
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|| 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.
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* July 22, 2011
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|-
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** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
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! February 14
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* August 20, 2011
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|| 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>.
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** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held, in NYC.
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* August 23, 2011
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! March 6
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** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
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|| 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]).
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* August 30, 2011
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** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
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! March 18
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* November 15, 2011
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|| 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.
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** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
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* November 25, 2011
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! March 25
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** First European Bitcoin Conference in Prague, Czech Rep.
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|| Difficulty decreased nearly 10%.  A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
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* December 12, 2011
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** 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>.
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! March 27
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* March 1, 2012
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|| The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.
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** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
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|-
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* May 08, 2012
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! March 31
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** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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|| The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
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* June 3, 2012
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|-
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** 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>.
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! April 5
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* July 22, 2012
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|| The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
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** 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>.
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! April 12
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|| First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
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|-
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! April 16
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|| TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
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|-
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! April 23
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|| BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.
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|-
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|| BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.
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|-
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|| Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.
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|-
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! April 27
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|| [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
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|-
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! April 28
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|| Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
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|-
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! April 30
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|| The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
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|-
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! June 2
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|| The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
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|-
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! June 8
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|| 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].
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|-
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! June 12
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|| The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.
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|-
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! June 13
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|| 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).
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|-
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! June 19
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|| 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.
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|-
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! June 19
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|| 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).
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|-
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! June 19
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|| 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.
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|-
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! June 20
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|| The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
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|-
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! June 24
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|| The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
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|-
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! July 22
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|| [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
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|-
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! August 20
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|| First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held, in NYC.
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|-
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! August 23
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|| [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
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|-
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! August 30
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|| Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
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|-
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! November 15
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|| First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
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|-
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! November 25
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|| First European Bitcoin Conference in Prague, Czech Rep.
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|-
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! December 12
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|| 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>.
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|}
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== 2012 ==
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{| style="text-align: left"
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|-
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! width="8em" | March 1
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|| Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
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|-
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! May 08
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|| A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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|-
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! June 3
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|| Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3), 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>.
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|-
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! July 22
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|| 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>.
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|}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 04:34, 27 August 2012

Important milestones of the Bitcoin project

2008

August 18 Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered – not by Satoshi[1].
October 31 Bitcoin design paper published
November 09 Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net

2009

January 3 Genesis block established at 18:15:05 GMT
January 11 Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the cryptography mailing list
January 12 First Bitcoin transaction, in block 170 - from Satoshi to Hal Finney[2].
December 16 Bitcoin v0.2 released
December 30 First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT

2010

February 6 Bitcoin Market established
May 22 laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins agreeing upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos
July 7 Bitcoin v0.3 released
July 11 Bitcoin v0.3 release mentioned on slashdot, bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.
July 12 Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
July 17 MtGox established
July 18 ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
August 15 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).
September 14 jgarzik offered 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client
September 18 puddinpop released source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
September 29 kermit discovered a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
October 01 First public OpenCL miner released
October 04 Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
October 07 Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
October 28 First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to kiba, facilitated by the #bitcoin-otc market.
November 6 The Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
December 7 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.
December 9 The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to sgornick, via the #bitcoin-otc market.
December 16 Bitcoin Pooled Mining, operated by slush, found its first block

2011

January 8 History of Bitcoin page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.
Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s
January 27 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 at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes[3]
January 28 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.
February 9 Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at MtGox.
February 10 Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle traffic resulting from mentions on Slashdot[4], Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.
February 14 A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins[5].
March 6 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 (mystery miner).
March 18 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.
March 25 Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
March 27 The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, Britcoin, opens.
March 31 The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, Bitcoin Brazil, opens.
April 5 The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, BitMarket.eu, opens.
April 12 First bitcoin put option contract sold via the #bitcoin-otc market.
April 16 TIME does an article on Bitcoin.
April 23 BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on MtGox exchange.
BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on MtGox exchange.
Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.
April 27 VirWoX opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
April 28 Block 120,630 is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
April 30 The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
June 2 The exchange rate at MtGox touched 10 USD per BTC.
June 8 The MtGox exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [1].
June 12 The MtGox exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.
June 13 Forum user allinvain claimed to have had 25,000 BTC stolen from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).
June 19 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.
June 19 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).
June 19 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 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts. One user lost over 2000 BTC.
June 20 The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
June 24 The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block 133056.
July 22 BitCoins Mobile, the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by Intervex Digital.
August 20 First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held, in NYC.
August 23 P2Pool, the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block 142,312).
August 30 Difficulty adjustment at block 143,136 marks the first back-to-back drop.
November 15 First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
November 25 First European Bitcoin Conference in Prague, Czech Rep.
December 12 Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A transaction paid 171 BTC in fees in block 157235[6].

2012

March 1 Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
May 08 A single service, SatoshiDICE becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
June 3 Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3), is block 181919 with 1322 transactions[7].
July 22 One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial Bitcoin Forum [8].

See Also

References

  1. ↑ According to this forum post, it was not Satoshi himself but sirius who registered the domain bitcoin.org before Satoshi released the white paper. Satoshi-hunters find this detail very important ;)
  2. ↑ Earliest Block With A Spend
  3. ↑ Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319
  4. ↑ Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity
  5. ↑ Car for Sale - Australia
  6. ↑ Largest fee ever?
  7. ↑ Largest block to date
  8. ↑ Topic about one millionth forum post

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