2010

2025-12-21T20:07:58Z

K52001: Changed 1st block mined to 32510. Accorsing to timestamp, 32490 was not the first block in 2010

<noinclude>{{year}}{{Infobox year|year=2010
|firstblock=32510
|blocks=67920
|supply=1,624,500
|mining=3,396,000
|startdifficulty=1.18
|enddifficulty=14,484
|blockreward=50 BTC
}}'''2010''' was the year after the year of [[Bitcoin]]'s launch.__TOC__
==Events==</noinclude>
===February===
*06 – [[Bitcoin Market]], the first [[exchange]], is launched.
===April===
*14 – [[Martti Malmi]] starts the [[Bitcoin Wiki]].
===May===
*22 – [[Laszlo Hanyecz]], a GPU miner, makes the [[Laszlo Hanyecz#Pizza|first documented purchase of a good in exchange for bitcoins]]; two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
===July===
*07 – Bitcoin v0.3 is released.
*11 – News of the latest release propagates to Slashdot, causing a large influx of bitcoin users.
*12 – Bitcoin value begins rising rapidly, going from $0.008 to $0.08 over the next five days.
*17 – [[Mt. Gox]] is established.
*18 – ArtForz becomes one of the earliest GPU miners.
===August===
*15 – 184 billion bitcoins are [[CVE-2010-5139|created artificially]] in block 74638. 53 blocks into a chain fork, the updated chain overtakes the erroneous one and the fraudulent bitcoins cease to exist.
===September===
*14 – Block 79764 is the first to be solved with split allocation of the block reward.<ref>{{cite block|79764|year=2010|month=09|day=14|hash=00000000001b816df120f4bdf63efd5d986e80c4dbffcf6ad5e73fba0499926d}}</ref>
*18 – [[Jeff Garzik]] pays [[puddinpop]] 10,000 BTC (~$625) to make their Windows-based CUDA client open source.
*29 – [[kermit]] discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed.
===October===
*01 – The [[poclbm|first public OpenCL miner]] is released.
*07 – The exchange rate begins rising again, from $0.06.
*16 – The earliest documented escrowed transaction occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[Diablo-D3]], with [[User:Theymos|Theymos]] as the escrow.
*28 – The earliest documented short sale occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[kiba]].
===November===
*06 – The market capitalization reaches $1,000,000 as the exchange rate passes $0.50.
===December===
*07 – [[ribuck]] sends 0.42 BTC to [[doublec]] in the first mobile-to-mobile transaction.
*09 – [[Difficulty]] surpasses 10,000.
*09 – The earliest documented sale of a call option contract occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[sgornick]].
*13 – [[Satoshi Nakamoto]] logs out of [[BitcoinTalk]] for the last time.
*15 – The [[Bitcoin Wiki]] is reestablished by [[Mark Karpelès]] using MediaWiki.
*16 – The earliest documented pool-mined block is solved by [[Bitcoin Pooled Mining]], aka Slush's Pool.
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