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Category:History

2011-08-18T21:43:07Z

Xylo:

* 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
** 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]
* 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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
* September 29, 2010
** kermit [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.
* March 6, 2011
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time [http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin.png reached an all-time 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 10, 2011
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked above 31 USD, before dropping to below 10 USD four days later, 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 15, 2011
**The generation difficulty dropped by about 4.5%

==References==
<references />

Category:History

2011-08-18T21:42:33Z

Xylo:

* 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
** 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]
* 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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
* September 29, 2010
** kermit [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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 [http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/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>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.
* March 6, 2011
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time [http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin.png reached an all-time 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 10, 2011
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked above 31 USD, before dropping to below 10 USD four days later, 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 15, 2011
**The difficulty dropped by about 4.5%

==References==
<references />