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Category:History

2012-07-23T18:57:32Z

Rjk: switched from direct link to wiki link

See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.

* August 18, 2008
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered.
* October 31, 2008
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
* November 09, 2008
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
* January 3, 2009
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
* January 11, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]
* January 12, 2009
** 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>.
* December 16, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.2 released
* December 30, 2009
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
* February 6, 2010
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established
* May 22, 2010
** 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
* July 7, 2010
** Bitcoin v0.3 released
* July 11, 2010
** 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.
* July 12, 2010
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
* July 17, 2010
** [[MtGox]] established
* July 18, 2010
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
* August 15, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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, 2010
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
* September 29, 2010
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
* October 01, 2010
** First public OpenCL miner released
* October 04, 2010
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
* October 07, 2010
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
* October 28, 2010
** 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.
* November 6, 2010
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
* December 7, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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.
* December 16, 2010
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
* January 2, 2011
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.
* January 8, 2011
** [[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, 2011
** 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>
* January 28, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
* February 10, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
* March 27, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.
* March 31, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
* April 5, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
* April 12, 2011
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
* April 16, 2011
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
* April 23, 2011
** 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, 2011
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
* April 28, 2011
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
* April 30, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
* June 2, 2011
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
* June 3, 2011
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].
* June 8, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
* June 24, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
* July 22, 2011
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
* August 20, 2011
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.
* August 23, 2011
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
* August 30, 2011
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
* November 15, 2011
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
* December 12, 2011
** 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>.
* March 1, 2012
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
* May 08, 2012
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
* June 3, 2012
** 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>.
* June 9, 2012
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.
* July 22, 2012
** 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>.

==See Also==

* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]

==References==
<references />

Category:History

2012-07-23T18:54:12Z

Rjk: forgot a space

See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.

* August 18, 2008
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered.
* October 31, 2008
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
* November 09, 2008
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
* January 3, 2009
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
* January 11, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]
* January 12, 2009
** 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>.
* December 16, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.2 released
* December 30, 2009
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
* February 6, 2010
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established
* May 22, 2010
** 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
* July 7, 2010
** Bitcoin v0.3 released
* July 11, 2010
** 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.
* July 12, 2010
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
* July 17, 2010
** [[MtGox]] established
* July 18, 2010
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
* August 15, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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, 2010
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
* September 29, 2010
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
* October 01, 2010
** First public OpenCL miner released
* October 04, 2010
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
* October 07, 2010
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
* October 28, 2010
** 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.
* November 6, 2010
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
* December 7, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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.
* December 16, 2010
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
* January 2, 2011
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.
* January 8, 2011
** [[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, 2011
** 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>
* January 28, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
* February 10, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
* March 27, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.
* March 31, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
* April 5, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
* April 12, 2011
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
* April 16, 2011
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
* April 23, 2011
** 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, 2011
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
* April 28, 2011
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
* April 30, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
* June 2, 2011
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
* June 3, 2011
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].
* June 8, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
* June 24, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
* July 22, 2011
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
* August 20, 2011
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.
* August 23, 2011
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
* August 30, 2011
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
* November 15, 2011
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
* December 12, 2011
** 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>.
* March 1, 2012
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
* May 08, 2012
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
* June 3, 2012
** 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>.
* June 9, 2012
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.
* July 22, 2012
** 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>.

==See Also==

* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]

==References==
<references />

Category:History

2012-07-23T18:53:36Z

Rjk: Added reference to the one millionth forum post on bitcointalk.org.

See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.

* August 18, 2008
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered.
* October 31, 2008
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published
* November 09, 2008
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net
* January 3, 2009
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT
* January 11, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]
* January 12, 2009
** 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>.
* December 16, 2009
** Bitcoin v0.2 released
* December 30, 2009
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT
* February 6, 2010
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established
* May 22, 2010
** 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
* July 7, 2010
** Bitcoin v0.3 released
* July 11, 2010
** 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.
* July 12, 2010
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
* July 17, 2010
** [[MtGox]] established
* July 18, 2010
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
* August 15, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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, 2010
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
* September 29, 2010
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
* October 01, 2010
** First public OpenCL miner released
* October 04, 2010
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
* October 07, 2010
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.
* October 28, 2010
** 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.
* November 6, 2010
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
* December 7, 2010
** 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, 2010
** 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.
* December 16, 2010
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block
* January 2, 2011
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.
* January 8, 2011
** [[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, 2011
** 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>
* January 28, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].
* February 10, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
* March 27, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.
* March 31, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.
* April 5, 2011
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.
* April 12, 2011
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.
* April 16, 2011
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].
* April 23, 2011
** 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, 2011
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
* April 28, 2011
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.
* April 30, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.
* June 2, 2011
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.
* June 3, 2011
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].
* June 8, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** 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, 2011
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.
* June 24, 2011
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].
* July 22, 2011
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].
* August 20, 2011
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.
* August 23, 2011
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).
* August 30, 2011
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.
* November 15, 2011
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.
* December 12, 2011
** 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>.
* March 1, 2012
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.
* May 08, 2012
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
* June 3, 2012
** 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>.
* June 9, 2012
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.
* July 22,2012
** 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>.

==See Also==

* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]

==References==
<references />

Bitcoin Church

2011-11-27T18:48:26Z

Rjk:

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]

The Church of Bitcoin is guided by eleven principle commandments, they are:

1) Praise Satoshi.

2) Honor the blockchain.

3) Thou shalt not fork thine own family.

4) Keep the network holy.

5) Thou should not covet another mans wallet.

6) Do unto others as you would have them DDoS you.

7) Thou shalt not swear unto another man that thine payment hath not been received until all of the blockchain hath been downloadeth.

8) Salt thine passwords.

9) Hack thine planet.

10) Keep thine woman, Bruces and Atlases in separate camps if they are unclean.

11) Troll harder.

Bitcoin Church

2011-11-26T21:10:41Z

Rjk:

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]

The Church of Bitcoin is guided by eleven principle commandments, they are:

1) Praise Satoshi.

2) Honor the blockchain.

3) Thou shalt not fork thine own family.

4) Keep the network holy.

5) Thou should not covet another mans wallet.

6) Do unto others as you would have them DDoS you.

7) Thou shalt not swear unto another man thine payment not recieveth until all of blockchain hath been downloadeth.

8) Salt thine passwords.

9) Hack thine planet.

10) Keep thine woman, Bruces and Atlases in separate camps if they are unclean.

11) Troll harder.

Bitcoin Church

2011-11-26T14:54:23Z

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.

<del>The church of bitcoin</del> Luke-jr is an evil troll.<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.

Bitcoin Church

2011-11-26T14:51:56Z

Rjk:

<del>The church of bitcoin</del> Luke-jr is an evil troll.

Litecoin

2011-11-16T04:40:15Z

Rjk: Undo revision 18952 by Luke-jr (talk) Thou shalt not vandalize wiki pages.

Litecoin is an alternative crypto-currency.

[http://litecoin.org/ Litecoin's website]

==See also==
[[Cryptocoin]]