2010
2010
| Bitcoin year | 2 |
| First block | 32490 |
| Initial supply | 1,624,500 BTC |
| Difficulty | 1.18 — 14,484 |
| Block reward | 50 BTC |
2010 was the year after the year of Bitcoin's launch.
Events
February
- 06 – Bitcoin Market, the first exchange, is launched.
May
- 22 – laszlo, a GPU miner, makes the 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 – CVE-2010-5139
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