Category:History

• October 31, 2008
  • 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 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
  • lazslo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins agreeing upon paying 10,000btc for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos
• July 7, 2010
  • Bitcoin v0.3 released
• July 11, 2010
  • Bitcoin v0.3 release mentioned on slashdot, bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.
• July 17, 2010
  • MtGox established
• July 18, 2010
  • ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
• August 15, 2010
  • 74638
• September 14, 2010
  • jgarzik offered 10,000btc (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client
• September 18, 2010
  • puddinpop released source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
• September 29, 2010
  • kermit 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 28, 2010
  • First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to kiba, facilitated by the #bitcoin-otc market.
• November 6, 2010
  • The Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50.
• December 7, 2010
  • Bitcoind was ported to the Nokia N900 phone by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first phone-to-phone Bitcoin transaction.
• December 9, 2010
  • The generation difficulty passed 10,000.
  • First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to sgornick, via the #bitcoin-otc market.
• December 16, 2010
  • 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 at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes^[1]
• January 28, 2011
  • Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is one-quarter of the eventual total of 21 million.

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