Bitcoin Forum

https://i.imgur.com/1FEjh22.jpg

This graphic reflects where the technology we have now come from in our homes, computers, networks, Internet, smartphones, virtual currencies, exchanges, to get here, many people have contributed their knowledge to the technological evolution we have today.
Some of them are very well known in Bitcointalk, thanks to all of them.

I have ordered the appointments chronologically with a link to the corresponding information:

- 1974 Robert E. Kahn / Vint Cerf TCP/IP = Internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite)

- 1976 Whitfield Diffie / Martin Hellman / New Directions in Cryptography
https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf (https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf)

- 1978 RSA Public Key Cryptosystem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem))

- 1980 Ralph Merkle Protocols Cryptosystems
http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf (http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf)

- 1981 David Chaum Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum)

- 1982 Murray Rothbard The Ethics of Liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard)

- 1983 David Chaum Blind Signatures
https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF (https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF)

- 1985 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography)

- 1988 Timothy C. May The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html (https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html)

- 1989 David Chauman DigiCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash)

- 1991 Phil Zimmermann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann)

- 1991 Haber / Stornetta How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791)

- 1992 / 1993 Eric Hugues A Cyperherpunk's Manifesto
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49471136#msg49471136 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49471136#msg49471136)

- 1992 Cypherpunk Founded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk)

- 1994 CyberCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash)

- 1994 Timothy C. May
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt)

- 1996 E-Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold)

- 1996 NSA How To Make A Mint
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm)

- 1997 Adam Back HashCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back)

- 1997 Nick Szabo Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469 (https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469)

- 1998 Nick Szabo Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/ (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/)

- 1998 Bit Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo)

- 1998 Wei Dai B-Money
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money)

- 1999 Dot Com Bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble)

- 2001 Bram Cohen BitTorrent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen)

- 2001 Distributed Hash Tables
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table)

- 2004 Hal Finney / Reusable Proofs of Work
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html)
 
- 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto / A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)

- 2009 Bitcoin Launched Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)


Source image:
https://twitter.com/bitcoinje/status/1091672330277961728 (https://twitter.com/bitcoinje/status/1091672330277961728)

List of quotes that are not in the chart, but are important for Bitcoin:

- 1991 Schnorr sigs patent
https://blog.bitmex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/patent.pdf (https://blog.bitmex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/patent.pdf)

- 1992/1993 Proof-of-work for spam
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.7634&rep=rep1&type=pdf (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.7634&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

- 1999 Peer-to-peer (P2P)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer)

- 1999 Byzantine fault tolerance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault)

- 2000 Hash Trees
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees.pdf (https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees.pdf)

- 2002 SHA-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2)

- 2009 Hal Finney / Running Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988 (https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988)

- 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto / Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.0)

- 2009/2010 Bitcoin Logo Satoshi / bitboy
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg51268637#msg51268637 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg51268637#msg51268637)

- 2010 Hal Finney / Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054

Other quotes:

- 2009 Bitcointalk / Founder Satoshi Nakamoto Nov- 22 / 2009 > Admin 2011
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3)

- 2010 Bitcointalk / Pizza for bitcoins? 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0)

- 2011 Bitcointalk Admin sirius 2012
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4)

- 2012 Bitcointalk current Admin theymos
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35)

- 2013 Wall Observer / Bitcointalk / Replies > 467532 April - 2019
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0

- 2013 I AM HODLING / Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

- 2013 Adam Back / Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178893

- 2013 Nakamoto Institute
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/ (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/)

- 2018 Merit & new rank requirements
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)

- 2018 WO Hats By xhomerx10 / Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg46916490#msg46916490

- 2019 10th Anniversary Bitcointalk / Notable Historical Publications / Bitcoin Prehistory
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg53252600#msg53252600 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg53252600#msg53252600)

- 2020 theymos is now the owner of the bitcointalk.org domain Apr. 18/2020 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241347.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241347.0)

links to the creation of the list https://github.com/Bitcoin-and-Markets/resources/wiki/Bitcoin-History
https://twitter.com/btcmrkts/status/964258271493345282

Well, I would have saved a lot of work looking for the links of each appointment.
If you compare the two listings in which you pass me missing links and luckily are not the same.

I will review them and update them if they have better information.

Thanks for your contribution. 8)

Wow, thanks for making such a nice scheme. I heard about some of the authors, but taking a look at what led to Bitcoin from historical perspective is very interesting. I was trying to offer adding something else to the list, but each time I came by something important, I notice that it was already included  :D Well, maybe I'd offer to your consideration the following book from 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book). I don't think it said anything that was not said before, but it kind of united all of the different important things together under the word "crypto".

I guess Wei Dai's "B-Money" is the first practical embodiment of a decentralized network with PoW algorithm and that is where Satoshi got the inspiration for creating bitcoin. Amazing how Satoshi came up with such a well-thought system from the synthesis of a huge number of papers and articles, which further suggest that he (she, they) might be a well-read individual (organization). I'll have a go at these links again and revisit what i consider as noteworthy ones, such as Wei Dai's B-Money, Hal Finney's paper and Eric Hughes' Cypherpunk Manifesto.

Nice work. I've seen several of the names credited here, although some would probabluly argue there is an underrepresentation of some figures from the cypherpunk community. That's all semantics.

What's interesting for me as well is estimating if all these prehistoric fathers would agree that Bitcoin is an iteration of their work. Chaum, for example, cited in your chart several times, seems to be travelling and promoting some rather commercial project that seems to bear semblance to his work on elliptic curves. Do they see something displacing Bitcoin in terms of adoption and popularity in their lifetime?

That one was worth the merit, because it gives a clear picture of what happened prior to Bitcoin, to get it where it is today. Some very smart people laid the foundation for this technology and Satoshi just put everything together in a unique way to make it work. It was there in front of everyone, but Satoshi had the vision and creativity to make it click.  ;D

A lot of people think Bitcoin was something totally new and that Satoshi developed everything from scratch, but that is simply not true. The ingredients was there, Satoshi just put them together and he baked the perfect cake.  ;)

Good job!
But it pretty hard to show BTC prehistory from all sides. In your case you mainly point out only technical points. But if you also want to overview BTC from economical point then you gonna need to take a look at prehistory of money.

The most obvious book:  The History of Money by Jack Weatherford
 

Thanks for the nice hard work for making the graphic of bitcoin prehistory. It is obviously useful for those who want to learn about the history of bitcoin and anything related to it.
If you do not mind, I would like to ask for your permission to share this great information to my local board in translated mode. Let me know whether you are OK or not with it. Thanks.

Perfect, the more people know the story, the better.
Of course, you can post it on your local board.

Amazing information for the crypto community. This is great information which all need to know in crypto industry and learn at the beginning itself. I suggest to you recommend this information to pin on any where for the people's wellness.

All the best once again.

Awesome list of all of the history of cryptography, if all of this is being binded it would make a book.

I wonder if they do have a complete books of it that would be awesome to most Bitcoin enthusiast.

Thanks for your chart of the development of the system till now to the Bitcoin because in recent times the people are thinking cryptocurrencies will not have sufficient to make this economy positively but they will it will also had in the hands of cryptocurrencies this is my trust about this field.

This is a good reference for a student wanting to make a paper or thesis regarding bitcoin. I just hope that person will find this thread. Very few people are lending their time and effort to come up a thread like this.

Nice thread OP! Now I'm curious about what will be recorded in history after Satoshi's Whitepaper.
By the way, why you put this thread on Economics board? This should be on Bitcoin Discussion board, right?

Tnx.


What is the section B&H?, is it bitcoin History?


I do not know the answer, but I think that in 10 years, they can have another point of view, markets, speculation, adoption, hardforks, Bitcoin is very young but in 10 years has lived a lot.


Thx, I'm preparing a post showing deflation of the dollar and something else.


It is a good proposal.


 ;) Very good idea, if there is an editor in Bitcointalk, you have a lot of material available here.


If I totally agree.


"Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money." > https://bitcoin.org/en/ (https://bitcoin.org/en/)

I could go in the Bitcoin Discussion, but the thread refers to the creation of a new currency or asset, Bitcoin in this case.

Thanks to this topic I learned a lot of interesting things about cryptography and I also translated your topic into Russian (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5127849.0) and added these two events for you:

Great job with the chart!

I did a little digging of my own a while ago and the closest system that I found in history was UAIF's Distributed Object Technology.

You may add it to your chart somewhere in the 90's scale.

Link to my post here :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3351556.0

Good job, I hope you have a lot of success in your local board. ;)


Ok, I'll read to see what it's about.

Thx.

Wow, even in the year 1973, cryptosphere already exist where in fact it is not yet the time for digital era. Maybe those people who foreseen the revolution of digital assets are geniuses.

https://i.imgur.com/7k8F4W1.jpg


1913 / 2019 - This is what happens with a traditional monetary system.

https://twitter.com/Goldbroker_com/status/1094717801166704643 (https://twitter.com/Goldbroker_com/status/1094717801166704643)

https://i.imgur.com/y4UhHWH.png

https://twitter.com/IIF/status/1113093833712168960 (https://twitter.com/IIF/status/1113093833712168960)

All this amount of printed fiduciary money will never be returned, the debt is the inheritance that we will leave to our children, grandchildren and the next generations.

Decentralization welcome, thx, BTC

https://i.imgur.com/GtgNfhK.jpg
https://twitter.com/wesleybillett/status/1095039892650934273 (https://twitter.com/wesleybillett/status/1095039892650934273)

Gold and Bitcoin

Quite significant, the two graphs have followed a similar pattern.
Maybe we make the same figure upwards.

That is exactly right. And just this week ECB has announced they will keep printing more debt.

Not only is this debt left for future generations, it is also never going to get paid. So if you print debt and it just keeps getting rolled over forever, you've essentially just printed free money for banks.

Did you get free money? Did your lemonade stand? No. But banks did.

We're getting hoodwinked systematically.

This graph and breakdown is incredible. thank you for sharing. it's rad to see how we built up to bitcoin. What are your thoughts on david chaum's latest project elixxir?

^
I do not know, we have to wait to get more information, personally I am not against any new project, as long as it does not attack Bitcoin.

https://i.imgur.com/NnCxrnb.png
https://twitter.com/brian_trollz/status/1101532292047093760

A lot of early people ended up shitting the bed. Beware.

This is why crypto technology keeps on walking, thanks to people like you who really understands all this madness. Congratulation for the hard work regarding the chart.

They have already given you an opinion about what you were asking.
I looked for more information and when I saw Chris Larsen (xrp), who is very close to the project, I did not waste any more time searching.


Yes, and also to people like you who are still interested in this type of information and participate in the thread.

Thx.

Thank you for sharing, I appreciate your thread and the effort you gave to summarize the important information that every crypto enthusiast should know.

Edit*** was suppose to send merit but found out I was out of it already.   

Well I guess there are still thread starters that are worth reading.
Thanks for the links. Now, I dont have to google it one by one and just click here.

Now that bitcoin have been fruitful, I do think this history willl be needed if ever a study will be created or a subject in history of crypto currencies.
Yes, they will need this to understand everything. I mean those who will be professor of crypto.

Thank you again.
Merits for the efforts.

Thx for the last comments.

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https://i.imgur.com/45Wn5BR.jpg
https://twitter.com/chartingbitcoin/status/1087528609517109250 (https://twitter.com/chartingbitcoin/status/1087528609517109250)

2018 Bitcoin transaction volume beats out PayPal

https://cryptoinsider.com/bitcoin-transaction-beats-paypal/ (https://cryptoinsider.com/bitcoin-transaction-beats-paypal/)

2019 Transactions Research: How Bitcoin found its niche in competition with Visa, Master Card and Paypal

https://datalight.me/blog/researches/longread/bitcoin-becomes-the-main-method-of-international-payment/ (https://datalight.me/blog/researches/longread/bitcoin-becomes-the-main-method-of-international-payment/)

If we already know that TPS is low compared to other means of payment, but we must bear in mind that Bitcoin is a baby, compared to these companies, see the years in which they were created with respect to Bitcoin.

https://i.imgur.com/xKedy9C.png

We have a long way to go, but we will reach them and we will surpass them. ;)

This post is taking too long to do it. For sure OP made some time to do this post. Anyway, technology always develop over a period of time like to what we have now. We are entering more complicated digital era where almost platform are using AI to interact with users. This is the best so.far but who knows that this kind of intelligent will be integrated in every system especially if it will found out that AI is more time saving and more comfortable for the users to use.

BITCOIN is one of the best technology also so far and being implemented right now.

People joked about video games currency for years but they have never given them credit for the prebitcoin history before so seeing that here is something amazing. I for one sold one of my game characters and a lot of game money for bitcoin for example, that was the transition process for me, I moved from game currencies and so forth to actually using digital currency and I knew at that moment this has to be the thing I do from now on.

I played games all my life and made a lot of money from them when I was a kid so it was certainly a way for people to make money and spend money as well but it was not seen as a currency and not taken seriously, with the invention of bitcoin those in game currencies actually had a reason to be relative to the topic but never really mentioned until this post.

^

This Vikipedia Virtual Economy link is a good description of what you are saying?
If so, I would include it in the list.

(2001 Video Game currencies and markets, (era started in 2001))

Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy)

In my opinion, this is a very good topic because so many people know the history of bitcoin which is not known before and must be very necessary when asked what the history of bitcoin is. And in my opinion it was added from another perspective and given how much the unit costs each year.

when seeing this there are lots of stuffs are inside in this Bitcoin development and it will be a marvelous and huge to read this topic and I wonder how this happened in very short period of time to develop and attract every single people to invest.

https://i.imgur.com/2suvxJB.png

These graphics are part of a work I did in the thread WO.
It is the price of Bitcoin from 2013 to 2018, the value of the price is the one indicated on the last day of each month.
We can observe the trend of each year until 2018.

That graph on the dollar is shocking. But do you know what the really amazing thing is? The rest of the world's currencies are doing even worse than the dollar.

At least the dollar started to strengthen in 2016, as a result of interest rates normalising. Everyone else's currency weakened further as a result of zero interest rates and QE. The ECB's base rates are 0.0% and the rate they charge banks for depositing excess reserves at the ECB is -0.4%. And yet banks still deposit excess reserves with the ECB despite losing money. The mind boggles as to what they're thinking.

Thanks OP, great stuff. 

Add to chronology:

2000: Hash tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree_(persistent_data_structure)#cite_ref-bagwell_1-0)  https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees.pdf Phil Bagwell

1992–1993: Proof-of-work for spam (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.7634&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

1999–present: P2P networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer)

1999–present: Byzantine fault tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault)

https://blog.bitmex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/patent.pdf
schnorr sigs patent. maybe there's a better link out there

Absolutely fantastic work, I'll definitely share this whenever someone asks me about the history of Bitcoin and what went ahead of its creation.
That happens more than you would expect and there's no way I'd be able to give such a complete answer as shown here in this chart/thread.

One of the few threads on here that will make it into my bookmarks folder.

There is something else:

Satoshi Nakamoto wrote (Satoshi Nakamoto Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:04 -0800 (http://Satoshi Nakamoto Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:04 -0800))
I believe I've worked through all those little details over the
last year and a half while coding it, and there were a lot of them.
The functional details are not covered in the paper, but the
sourcecode is coming soon.  I sent you the main files.
(available by request at the moment, full release soon)

This means that he began working on Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper in the summer of 2006.

It's the first time that I see the history of bitcoin and it's very satisfying because another knowledge has been added to my learnings. This is another start up for those who will try to learn bitcoin with me. I would like to include this on my presentation if someone needs my basic learnings.

The  post is really an informative one if you want to know the beginnings of bitcoin. A very good reference for someone who wants to understand more about bitcoin's existence. I think this post should be pinned also for everyone's consumption.

The USD is actually doing really well considering the economic conditions that are being experienced almost everywhere. The US, despite all the whining that occurs with Trump, has a booming economy in a time where every other country is in the middle of a slump. It's basically a recession for the rest of the world minus the United States, which is probably why it hasn't been called a recession on most of the main media channels yet. I'm not entirely sure how the US is pulling off their economic miracle either since there are multiple trade wars that they're embroiled in. Maybe that's how they do it and it's getting everyone to invest their money into the US' economy. I know that Canada is in a massive slump that feels different from every other since it's been down for years with only slight instances of reprieve. This doesn't feel normal, and I have a feeling it's due to a neutering government which is chopping our economy off at the knees and making it run a 100m sprint.

Regardless, the prehistory for Bitcoin is actually pretty neat. The number of advances and considerations for technology leading up to cryptos truly is mind-boggling.

Thank you, for all the comments and contributions, they are already updated.

Now I need to verify the dates that refer to the administrators that Bitcointalk has had.

https://i.imgur.com/JQlYus7.png
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg50395431#msg50395431

@theymos

You can confirm if the dates are correct, please?

So this really started from a long time ago. Really nice to see that someone took out their time to record all these and put them together, so that everyone can be able to see where and how it started. They have been on this since the 70’s and it continued till the last decade and we have got bitcoin from Satoshi who we are yet to know who he is. A lot of people are still confuse at what us the purpose of all this and what bitcoin us really meant for, sometime in the future we will get to know, as for now, it is for a peer-to-peer transaction.

So you can still include in the list William Stanley Jevons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons)

In his 1874 book The Principles of Science (https://archive.org/stream/principlesofscie00jevorich#page/n165/mode/2up), he wrote:

"Can the reader say what two numbers multiplied together will produce the number 8616460799? I think it unlikely that anyone but myself will ever know"
https://i.imgur.com/9JwWGAZ.png

description one-way functions

The Bitcoin logo:

There is little talk of the Bitcoin logo, I have compiled a bit of information about this.

https://i.imgur.com/4mhA6O6.png

The first design of the Bitcoin logo was created by satoshi nakamoto with the inscription BC / 2009

satoshi > New icon/logo / Feb-2010

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64.msg21766#msg21766

https://i.imgur.com/FHSZseb.png

https://i.imgur.com/f3oU0ae.png

https://i.imgur.com/jKLHgn6.png

bitboy > More Bitcoin logos, buttons, and also some other graphics / Nov-2010

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0

https://i.imgur.com/xQwE8hk.png

bitboy, interpreted that the Bitcoin logo should be accepted as a brand image and marketing, change of color gold to orange, the inclined symbol, the vertical bars at the ends, is a unique design and very successful for merchandising.

The logo is also part of the Bitcoin story.

As always, I was pleasantly surprised to read 2010/2011 threads, mainly for their comments, content and to see forum members who are still active in Bitcointalk.



https://i.imgur.com/wdeObGB.png

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional_graphics (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional_graphics)

A very good overview of where Bitcoin started and since its a chart for Bitcoin prehistory, maybe you could add in the timeline the origins of cryptography and its evolution over time especially in World War II era where there are serious work being done about it which I guess lays the foundation of modern cryptography which is directly related to Bitcoin. Imho.

Bitcoin wasn't created out of "sudden thoughts" but there was previous tries before bitcoin came to be but that doesn't mean bitcoin took something from them and made it better, it was something totally different with the same idea.

Bitcoin put the emphasis on the decentralized part, all the previous tries didn't had the power of blockchain with them, it was a currency and it was unknown how it would be used but when bitcoin was created it was powered by blockchain which made the big difference between bitcoin and all other previous tries.

So, we can say that the "online money" idea was old as internet itself but the blockchain idea was purely new and that was the difference that made bitcoin super known and used by everyone. I am still thankful that I was around early and got in very early, it changed my life but if I have seen all others previously I would never got into them.

I just realized that Bitcoin was basically moved by several invoices about cypher or cryptography. I have also studied this for a while and yes it is quite difficult for me to continue. And btw, that logo of Bitcoin with stand upright is better than the right-tilted.

History of Bitcoin 2009-2018 (Git Visualization) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=619&v=DjYbsq3FXfM)

And this:
Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending

Bitcoin v0.1 released (https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/014994.html)
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

You really took your time to write all this? I can't even read up to half of what you have written here cause I don't read much. If we are talking about cryptocurrency and the creation, all these people that you have mentioned here, no one is going to remember them as long as it crypto we are talking about. Everyone has their own field where they will be remembered, if you're talking about cryptocurrency then the only person everyone remembers is Satoshi Nakamoto and no one else. He's the creator of cryptocurrency and that's all we know. Others should only take glory in their own respective fields.

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Of course, all the merit of Bitcoin belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto, but here we are describing the prehistory of Bitcoin, there are several protocols that are used today and are older than Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin v0.1 released


https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html (https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html)

"BTC is the Monetary layer of the internet protocol:"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9lyy64XoAA6qPS.jpg

https://twitter.com/mrcoolbp/status/1142070202676457472 (https://twitter.com/mrcoolbp/status/1142070202676457472)

This graphic is like a simplified version of the thread. ;)

https://i.imgur.com/cIqLKM6.jpg
https://www.coinreview.com/history-of-blockchain/ (https://www.coinreview.com/history-of-blockchain/)

Today is the big day for BTCitcoin:

https://i.imgur.com/Q7vuQMR.png
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192)

"Trump Tweeting About Bitcoin Is ‘Achievement Unlocked,’ Says Coinbase CEO"


https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-industry-celebrates-achievement-unlocked-as-trump-pumps-market (https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-industry-celebrates-achievement-unlocked-as-trump-pumps-market)

Judging by what information is being distributed on the network, I believe that the struggle for the right to use cryptocurrency is waiting for us, and at the same time the resistance from the governments will be very strong.  Guys, I want to say one great truth.  Governments come and go, but the people always remain the same. ;)

https://i.imgur.com/ivdW2Gt.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ivdW2Gt.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/ivdW2Gt.jpg)

Great future for FIAT money..., the printers will never be unemployed.

https://i.imgur.com/KuUoJpT.jpg


https://twitter.com/Bitstamp/status/1157274852379770881 (https://twitter.com/Bitstamp/status/1157274852379770881)

History always repeats itself? it's possible, we talk about BTCitcoin.

https://i.imgur.com/5VbxaaM.png
https://usdsat.com/ (https://usdsat.com/)

Banks !!!, your business collapses.

The time that 1 satoshi will equals to 1 usd is the right time I am actually waiting for, and that is what I have been accumulating my btc for, I may have missed out of when bitcoin was 1 cent, but I am not going to miss out of this one again.

Dollar is gradually weakening against bitcoin and this is why trump came out recently to defend dollars and condemn bitcoin, but despite the fact that a whole United State president came out to declare interest against bitcoin, bitcoin still did not fall in value. Let us give it another 10 years’ time, I am sure that 1 satoshi will surely equals to 1 dollar, by that time, adoption rate would have been so high and the supply of bitcoin would have been equally limited too if not exhausted already.

July 23, 2010

The FED's Real Monetary Problem
By Thomas Luongo

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/07/thomas-luongo/the-ferment-in-alternative-currencies/ (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/07/thomas-luongo/the-ferment-in-alternative-currencies/)

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June 24, 2019

Bitcoin is Back – As a Safe Haven Asset
By Thomas Luongo

https://i.imgur.com/FZAjTiD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KOSpe5U.png

https://i.imgur.com/vNDPDZt.png

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/thomas-luongo/bitcoin-is-back-as-a-safe-haven-asset/ (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/thomas-luongo/bitcoin-is-back-as-a-safe-haven-asset/)

Recommended reading, start first with the article of July 23, 2010 and then with that of June 24, 2019.

9 Years separate these items.

https://i.imgur.com/ZwQAVKf.png

Yesterday, the Wall Observer thread reached 25,000 pages, many pages for a single thread, Bitcointalk is already part of the history of Bitcoin, but if it continues this way, Wall Observer will become a mythical Bitcoin thread.

- 25,000 Pages
- 500,000 Replies
- 21,366,000 Views
   
- Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0)

Yesterday, gmaxwell published a thread with excellent information where it highlights some very interesting records to know a little more about the history of Bitcointalk.

[BCT FACT] Bitcointalk was originally on Bitcoin.org but ... drama


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5203621.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5203621.0)

It is a must-read thread if you want to know more about the forum.

Very interesting subject, it reminds me some videos showing the evolution of a project / object over time.

I thank you for sharing, I discovered a lot of things that I did not know with these links :D

wow, this is crazyy! I now understand that the way Nakatomo Satoshi made bitcoin was based on algorithms that had existed before. There have been many theories and desires achieved when bitcoin was born and I am quite impressed with the words of Cypherpunk. they are also probably one of the founders of cryptocurrency discovery and the earliest experience.

Wow! This is an amazing historical compilation of events that became a precursor to the great Bitcoin. I will read more of this for sure after my work. Thank you for exerting great effort for this and sharing this to everyone. Bitcoin is more appreciated if everyone knows more of it and its history.

This really surprised me and this idea is really great. It combines many theories from ancient to present to create a decentralized trading system and the best security. I now understand why bitcoin is so valuable in the past. It is the quintessential combination of many years and many old projects. Cryptocurrency and Blockchain are really a great value chain, so I believe that the future of the crypto market will grow further and stronger. perhaps now many governments still don't see the strength of our market. Time will prove everything.

A really cool collection of information for those who want to better understand cryptography. After all, without knowing the history, you can not build the future. I think it should be interesting to read to anyone who somehow interacts with cryptocurrencies.

I hope that more people like gmaxwell, which gives us the possibility to know more about the real history of Bitcoin and the forum, continue to publish well-documented threads so that we can all know first-hand what happened from the beginning.

That was very informative. They were under a situation where no other good solution was possible. Not Making the bitcoin.org site official had its own reason certainly. Besides, the matter of illegal activities could not be avoided either. That was actually a bit rough and happy to see such topics are no more promoted. At present, it is the best forum for tuning with digital currencies market, specially bitcoin. They wanted development to be a separate organization from forum.

Purpose of the forum is to provide a place for participants of an industry to share thought with each other and get solutions of problems. Development team needs to focus on betterment of a project. Giving both one room will definitely not work. You cannot focus on your work when a lot of groups are talking about different topics. Developers need their own space and separating both was the right thing to do.

I found this nicer info graphic, even if I have to admit is less complete than the one in the OP:
One nice property is that opening the pdf version you have clickable links:

https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/prehistory-infographic/

https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bitcoin-History-Infographic-768x2880.png

I inform you that the Bitcoin Prehistory thread has been selected on the tenth anniversary of the forum, for notable historical publications, this would not have been possible without your participation and collaboration.
Thanks you all, I will continue working to improve it.

Caption results
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5206366.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5206366.0)

https://i.imgur.com/RAtBBfE.png

History of Bitcoin 2009-2018 (Git Visualization)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYbsq3FXfM&t (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYbsq3FXfM&t)

Better watch it without haste and in full screen with high resolution, I hope you enjoy it.

https://i.imgur.com/vjQ2pxJ.png
(graphic VB1001)

Bitcoin Obituaries

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/ (https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/)

A list made by 99bitcoins where they comment on the reason why Bitcoin is going to die.

Just an annual table to see in perspective how many times a year they killed us, total: 379 8)

https://i.imgur.com/IFSVjop.png
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988 (https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988)

11 Years ago from this, thanks Hal.

(The link was added)

How did Bitcoin improve? Technological advances are good. The system is striving to increase the size of the block. Bitcoin performs the value transfer function. What about the Bitcoin philosophy? Does it offer a better system than the current economy? Further studies are needed to assess them.

By Satoshi Nakamoto

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13.msg46#msg46 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13.msg46#msg46)

If you have the opportunity to get 1 Bitcoin, you are very lucky, many will not get it.

That's undoubtedly true but who knows what the ownership distribution is going to look like in a decade or two.  Right now I think there are a few people who own a lot of bitcoin, like the Winklevoss twins and some of the OGs from back in the day.

Anyway, speaking of bitcoin history (not prehistory, though), I'm reading Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper on the suggestion of gentlemand (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=155345) and I'm glad I picked it up on Amazon.  I got into bitcoin relatively late and never really got to know who the big names are/were, and the book is doing a great job so far taking me through bitcoin's very early days (I'm only a few chapters in).  Not surprisingly, mention of bitcointalk started very early in the book but I was pleased to see that anyway.  If anyone hasn't read Digital Gold and is looking for a well-written journalistic account of bitcoin's history, you should check it out. 

Sometimes I've seen names mentioned over and over here, but often that just leaves me scratching my head wondering who these people are--like Hal Finney and bitcointalk's own sirius (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=4).  It's very nice the book covers stuff like that, else I probably would have remained too lazy to ever figure it out.

Thanks for the recommendation, I will buy the book.

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https://i.imgur.com/X4XwzXs.jpg
https://twitter.com/howmuch_net/status/1245335959065047045 (https://twitter.com/howmuch_net/status/1245335959065047045)

With all lossy stock indices and central banks printing money, Bitcoin continues on its way.

BTC dominace: 65,6% / $6,710

https://coin360.com/ (https://coin360.com/)

he also twitted about bitcoin's co2 emissions 11 years ago, such a great mind.
Only now we start to worry about same problem, energy usage and all that bad stuff

This is really nice, never thought I will see this. This is a very nice thread for history buffs like me. It is like walking the memory lane.

A summary of the most iconic tweets in Bitcoin History compiled by Jameson Lopp:

 The Annals of Bitcoin Twitter (https://blog.lopp.net/annals-bitcoin-twitter-history/)

The Memes Make the Bitcoin

https://blog.lopp.net/the-memes-make-the-bitcoin/ (https://blog.lopp.net/the-memes-make-the-bitcoin/)

Memes have accompanied Bitcoin practically from the beginning, an article with illustrations and comments from, Jameson Lopp.

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https://i.imgur.com/ArzBPep.png

Coinbase: Bitcoin Is Superior to Gold


https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-bitcoin-is-superior-to-gold (https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-bitcoin-is-superior-to-gold)

https://i.imgur.com/vzImwuJ.png

Pizza for bitcoins?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0)

Bitcoin Pizza Day 10th Anniversary

The first purchase made with Bitcoins, 10,000BTC = 2 Pizzas, today with 10,000 Bitcoins... 8)
things have changed a bit. 1BTC/$9,225

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- Although if we review the history of Bitcoin, it might be better to see in detail the dates of the first transaction, the first sale and finally the purchase of pizza:

Jan-12-2009 / Block 170 First transaction Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History)

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16 (https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16)

Oct-12-2009 / Block 24835 First Bitcoin sale to Fiat.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/historical-price/ (https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/historical-price/)

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/7dff938918f07619abd38e4510890396b1cef4fbeca154fb7aafba8843295ea2 (https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/7dff938918f07619abd38e4510890396b1cef4fbeca154fb7aafba8843295ea2)

Martti Malmi sold 5,050 BTC for $5.02
https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/423455561703624704 (https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/423455561703624704)

May-22-2010 / Block 57043 Pizza Day 10,000BTC.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d (https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d)

https://twitter.com/jimepstein/status/1313541954031038472?s=20

edit https://twitter.com/jimepstein/status/1313840749386125313?s=20
part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWh6Yzr12iQ Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World (Pt.1)

https://i.imgur.com/9ovQ4UQ.png

12 years since the publication of the White Paper

Fri Oct 31 14:10:00 EDT 2008
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html (https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html)

It is available in several languages ​​here:
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper (https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper)

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1 US dollar is currently worth 7373 sats
https://usdsat.com/ (https://usdsat.com/)

https://i.imgur.com/okxZE2e.png
https://usdsat.com/ (https://usdsat.com/)

1 US dollar is currently worth 4323 sats

Bitstamp ATH:

- Dec. 17 2017 / 19,666
- Dec. 17 2020 / 23,777

“Do not invest in fiat money more than you are able to afford to lose”.

This is the sad plot twist you learn from this graph.

Thank you so much for such a unique collection of information on the topic! To be honest, almost 90% of what is given here by the author, unfortunately, did not even know! Very, very useful for forming a deep understanding of what cryptocurrency and decentralized systems are !

I've heard a lot about E-gold from the whole list. Thus, it turns out that the creators of bitcoin have collected in their project all the best from previous developments and research from around the world. I think that the creators of bitcoin did not initially count on such popularity of cryptocurrencies all over the world, bitcoin was supposed to become a test cryptocurrency. Particularly surprising are the articles published before 1990, when everything was so poorly developed, while such discoveries were made for the digital world. One of the few really worth reading threads.

12th
Happy Birthday BTCitcoin

Genesis block "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)

Not your keys, Not your bitcoin