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*06 – [[Bitcoin Market]], the first [[exchange]], is launched.
 
*06 – [[Bitcoin Market]], the first [[exchange]], is launched.
 
===May===
 
===May===
*22 – [[laszlo]], a GPU miner, makes the first documented purchase of a good in exchange for bitcoins; two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
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*22 – [[Laszlo Hanyecz]], a GPU miner, makes the [[Laszlo Hanyecz#Pizza|first documented purchase of a good in exchange for bitcoins]]; two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
 
===July===
 
===July===
 
*07 – Bitcoin v0.3 is released.
 
*07 – Bitcoin v0.3 is released.
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*29 – [[kermit]] discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed.
 
*29 – [[kermit]] discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed.
 
===October===
 
===October===
*01 – The first public OpenCL miner is released.
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*01 – The [[poclbm|first public OpenCL miner]] is released.
 
*07 – The exchange rate begins rising again, from $0.06.
 
*07 – The exchange rate begins rising again, from $0.06.
 
*16 – The earliest documented escrowed transaction occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[Diablo-D3]], with [[Theymos]] as the escrow.
 
*16 – The earliest documented escrowed transaction occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[Diablo-D3]], with [[Theymos]] as the escrow.
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===November===
 
===November===
 
*06 – The market capitalization reaches $1,000,000 as the exchange rate passes $0.50.
 
*06 – The market capitalization reaches $1,000,000 as the exchange rate passes $0.50.
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===December===
 
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*07 – [[ribuck]] sends 0.42 BTC to [[doublec]] in the first mobile-to-mobile transaction.
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*09 – [[Difficulty]] surpasses 10,000.
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*09 – The earliest documented sale of a call option contract occurs between [[nanotube]] and [[sgornick]].
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*13 – [[Satoshi Nakamoto]] logs out of [[BitcoinTalk]] for the last time.
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*15 – The [[Bitcoin Wiki]] is reestablished by [[Mark Karpelès]] using MediaWiki.
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*16 – The earliest documented pool-mined block is solved by [[Bitcoin Pooled Mining]], aka Slush's Pool.
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Revision as of 15:04, 4 March 2015

Years: 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2010
Bitcoin year2
First block32490
Initial supply1,624,500 BTC
Difficulty1.18 — 14,484
Block reward50 BTC
2010 was the year after the year of Bitcoin's launch.

Events

February

May

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 – 184 billion bitcoins are created artificially in block 74638. 53 blocks into a chain fork, the updated chain overtakes the erroneous one and the fraudulent bitcoins cease to exist.

September

  • 14 – Block 79764 is the first to be solved with split allocation of the block reward.
  • 18 – Jeff Garzik pays puddinpop 10,000 BTC (~$625) to make their Windows-based CUDA client open source.
  • 29 – kermit discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed.

October

November

  • 06 – The market capitalization reaches $1,000,000 as the exchange rate passes $0.50.

December

References