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2012-10-31T17:19:03Z

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== Important milestones of the Bitcoin project ==
=== 2008 ===
{| style="text-align: left"
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! width="8em" | August 18
|| Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103369.msg1135218#msg1135218 According to theymos], Satoshi registered bitcoin.org via https://www.anonymousspeech.com/ which allows to anonymously register domains.</ref>.
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! October 31
|| [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
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! November 09
|| Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
|}

=== 2009 ===
{| style="text-align: left"
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! width="8em" | January 3
|| [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
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! January 11
|| 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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! January 12
|| 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>.
|-
! October 5
|| Exchange rates [http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/2009+Exchange+Rate published] by New Liberty Standard. $1 = 1,309.03 BTC (and [[User:theymos|theymos]] thought NLS was overcharging<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104287.msg1143955#msg1143955 Historical Price Data for 2009]</ref>)
|-
! December 16
|| Bitcoin v0.2 released
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! December 30
|| First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
|}

=== 2010 ===
{| style="text-align: left"
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! width="8em" | February 6
|| [[Bitcoin Market]] established
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! May 21
|| laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins agreeing upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 bitcointalk post] where laszlo confirmed having bought pizza</ref>
|-
! July 7
|| Bitcoin v0.3 released
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! July 11
|| Bitcoin v0.3 release mentioned on slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 slashdot] metiones Bitcoin</ref>, bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.
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! July 12
|| 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
|| [[MtGox]] established
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! July 18
|| ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
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! 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]]).
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! September 14
|| 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
|-
! September 18
|| 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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! September 29
|| 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
|| First public OpenCL miner released
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! October 04
|| Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
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! October 07
|| Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
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! October 28
|| 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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! November 6
|| 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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! 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.
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! December 9
|| The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
|-
|
|| 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
|| [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
|}

=== 2011 ===
{| style="text-align: left"
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! width="8em" | January 8
|| [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.
|-
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|| Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s
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! 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|#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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! 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.
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! February 9
|| Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
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! February 10
|| 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.
|-
! February 14
|| 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>.
|-
! 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 ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html 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.
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! 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.
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! March 31
|| The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
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! April 5
|| The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
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! April 12
|| First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
|-
! April 16
|| TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
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! 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.
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! April 28
|| 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
|| The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
|-
! June 2
|| The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
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! June 8
|| 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].
|-
! 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.
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! June 13
|| 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).
|-
! 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.
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! 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).
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! 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 [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 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.
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! June 24
|| The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
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! July 19
|| "Let it go on record that at 4:05pm CET [19 July 2011], my manager Tadek was the first person in the world to receive [testnet] Bitcoins via NFC ;)" - Mike Hearn
|-
! July 22
|| [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
|-
! July 30
|| [http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ Tribute to Len Sassaman] included in the blockchain<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33618.msg420597#msg420597 A Tribute to Len "rabbi" Sassama]</ref>.
|-
! August 20
|| First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held, in NYC.<ref>[http://bitcoinme.com/index.php/conference/ New York Conference 2011]</ref>
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! August 23
|| [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
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! August 30
|| Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
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! November 15
|| First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
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! November 25
|| First European Bitcoin Conference in Prague, Czech Rep.<ref>[http://bitgroups.org/ Prague Conference 2011]</ref>
|-
! December 12
|| 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>.
|}

=== 2012 ===
{| style="text-align: left"
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! width="8em" | 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 [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>.
|-
! July 22
|| 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>.
|-
! September 15-16
|| Bitcoin Conference in London <ref>[http://bitcoin2012.com/ London Conference 2012]</ref>.
|-
! September 27
|| Formation of the [[Bitcoin Foundation]].
|}

==See Also==

* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]

==References==
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