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As it has been a bit calm here lately:

It would be nice to have a bitcoin day to "celebrate our independence from the central bankers" as anonymous put it (see link below).

I invite you to present your nomination in this thread so we can then vote.


previous suggestions:

January 3rd    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25900.0
   genesis block date
   the obvious one but not a good date imho because lots of people are on holiday and still have a hangover

February 9th
  first time Bitcoin / USD parity

December 12th    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54386 (Satoshi Nakamoto Day)
   last message from the great leader



I would prefer a day in summer, though. Ideas?

I can't find the post but since the generation of blocks rather than the calendar time is more important, there have been suggestions to not use calendar time then to mark a "birthday".

Since bitcoin has an event every 210,000 blocks whose timing roughly correlates to an occurance once every four years, how about timing the event to one fourth of that 210,000 blocks.  Or every 52,500 blocks -- roughly one year, but will vary based on rates of change of difficulty.  This would put the birthday in December this year.  About December 9th, to be more specific.

Put it on a regular boring day that isn't a holiday. That way, people can rejoice, skip work or school and have a warm fuzzy feeling bout Bitcoin.

How about April 17th so that we can both rejoice and be reminded that the game is not over yet?

+1  ;D

 ???   did anything happen last week?

US Tax day.

yeah, block height is cooler.

but 262,500  hmmmm   315,000, 367,500,...   why did the great one not make it every 200,000 blocks 

edit: also the block reward change is a big event of its own - we need an additional bitcoin day :)

to be honest I had hoped for a date that would come up in the next couple of months...

It was the 17th this year because the 15th fell on the weekend. But my dad was born on the 17th in 1938 (RIP, you old fart [he knows its not in disrespect])

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/7106302687_c11e76a947.jpg
Dad showing off the last walleye he caught.

@Phin: you are classic


another date of importance is the creation date of satoshi's paper: March, 24th 2009

May 22
first real world transaction ever settled with bitcoins (2010 two pizzas for 10.000 bitcoins)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195

that is the thing!

bitcoin pizza day! on that day every bitcoin believer must order a pizza for bitcoins!

Looking forward to the day I get 10.000 pizzas for two bitcoins  8)

My birthday is May 21, so I support this decision!

Why does it have to be every year? Why can't it be every four years like the Olympics or the World Cup. It will make it a more special celebration people will look forward to.
I like it having a floating date instead of pinning it down, and will make it something that will generate a lot of buzz and anticipation as the date approaches. That may make it like the flash mob phenomena in some ways.

/edit the best celebrations are not those we plan and organize ahead of time but those which just happen... organically; spontaneously.    

Something like a random date generator picked the previous year via a notable pushing a button.

http://ewinsidetv.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/house_l.jpg

The block-parties every 210,000 blocks will surely happen anyway, so we already have such a very special celebration.

It can't hurt though to have another Bitcoin day to celebrate every year and a floating date according to block-height would be very appropriate. I like the 52,500th block idea since it is the most logical one, but it will probably stay in winter for a long time. Anyway, here's a few alternatives from the top of my head:

- Once every 50,000 blocks or roughly 11.6 months. Pretty intuitive, would not collide with the block-partys and soon be in summer. Projected dates for the next 5 years:

• 2012: October 1st
• 2013: September 13th
• 2014: August 26th
• 2015: August 8th
• 2016: July 21st

- Once every 2^16=65536 blocks or roughly every 15 months. Would not collide with a block-party within the next 50,000 years but there would be years without a Bitcoin day and it is probably a bit too nerdy - even for Bitcoin ;) Projected dates for the next 5 years:

• 2012: September 7th
• 2013: December 6th
• 2014: none
• 2015: March 6th
• 2016: June 4th

- Pick a good (notable) calendar date and take the nearest 10,000th block. That would mean it could only vary about +-2 months around that day and therefore stay roughly in the same season every year.

- Celebrate the 10th difficulty adjustment every year. Would always be around spring.

- Countdown to the last Satoshi. The block with the last Satoshi ever to be mined will be 6,929,999. Divide that by 100 and you have kind of a percentage counter for Bitcoin which will increase roughly every 16 months. A nice property but maybe too long a cycle. Projected dates for the next 5 years:

• 2012: November 25th
• 2013: none
• 2014: March 21st
• 2015: July 15th
• 2016: November 7th

Which is kinda my point. We already have a natural candidate for a "Bitcoin Day" that people will already celebrate
without need of them being coaxed or enticed. We don't need to try and contrive something else.

I suppose there is always the fear, for some, that Bitcoin may not last another four years... which, I feel, will make
it all the more worth celebrating when the day arrives.

My opinions.

I don't think that's the problem, it's just too long to wait :)

On the block reward change dates (is there a better name?) all bitcoineers' attention will be on the system and markets. For outsiders this has not much meaning. I thought about the bitcoin day more as a marketing thing.

@wareen: thanks for your analysis and ideas

Independence Day!

lets give new meaning to the 4th of july

Other countries have different independence days.

Every day is bitcoin day  :D

It has to be something with a positive idea for outsiders. Satoshi's last message (is he dead?) or reward getting split (Am I less of an early adopter now?) are both sad events at least at first sight. Parity day is a USA thing, only and very technical. What if rate goes down to parity again?

I vote for bitcoin pizza day! Pizza is positive. If pizzerias offer pizza for bitcoin for that one day only and if it is with the help of some local geeks, this could help get bitcoins to brick and mortar business in general, too. And the pizza bakers might like the story of those two now super expensive pizzas ;)

What would be great about that is we could track the purchasing power of bitcoin against the value of a pizza.  Pizza is likely to be around a really long time, so future generations would likely be able to continue to celebrate.

What I like about is that we could schedule local meetups at pizzeria's.  It will be a great way to create some IRL bitcoin actions.  Every major city could pick a pizzeria and as it grows bigger and bigger we will see the price of pizza in Bitcoin come down with an ever bigger crowd.  Is pizza something that is eaten all over the world?  Would people in just about every country be able to participate?

Yeah but a fixed date allow us to put it in the Wiki, and a fixed date is easier to remember.  Unless its my anniversary.  Better to have a floating date for that!  :o

Yeah its the day everyone in the Bitcoin community holds their breath that the drop doesn't cause the hash rate to plunge and enter a downward spiral as people sell out and shutdown their rigs...

Followed by a 51% attack launched by the black-ops arm of some national intelligence agency looking to kill the greatest currency ever devised by man.

We already have the Bitcoin Pizza and everything.
I advise people see the full resolution picture for maximum effect.

Sample:
http://ocantinhodadama.clinicadosom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/a-pizza-dos-10000-bitcoins-453x443.png

Link for full-res http://ocantinhodadama.clinicadosom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/a-pizza-dos-10000-bitcoins.png

Source: http://ocantinhodadama.clinicadosom.com/2012/04/14/a-pizza-que-custou-10-000-bitcoins/

Shit you just gave me a huge idea.  On the Bitcoin day, the client can change the startup splash screen to a pizza.  And maybe embed some kind of other creative easter eggs.  Maybe a dialog can pop up with a link to meetup.com/bitcoinpizzaday so people can find where their local meetup is that day!

This is hugely stupid idea, and if you knew how the average person reacts when the software they're using to manage financial transactions suddenly starts doing all kinds of crazy shit for no apparent reason, you'd understand why. ::)

http://bitcoinx.com/pics/bitcoin_pizza_web.png

yummy!

high res: http://bitcoinx.com/pics/bitcoin_pizza.jpg
source: http://ocantinhodadama.clinicadosom.com/2012/04/14/a-pizza-que-custou-10-000-bitcoins/

Bitcoin Pizza Day is coming up in three weeks. Let's just give it a try  ;D


maybe we can even get a comment from laszlo

Pizza Pi Day = 3/14

I personally advocate celebrating every day that the three arms of the bitcoin clock align.

http://bitcoinclock.com/