Bitcoin days of observance

[belcher]

It could be interesting to have a list of Bitcoin days of observance. A bit like those "On This Day" segments where people reflect on history for 5 minutes.

Here's all the ones I could think of that could work.


3rd January 2009 - Genesis Block Day

11th January 2009 - Hal Finney downloads and installs bitcoin https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988

12th January 2009 - First bitcoin transaction (to Hal Finney)

27th January 2011 - Silk road opens. Ross Ulbricht's first ever shill thread

25th Feburary 2018 - Lightning Pizza Day

1st April 2012 - p2sh soft fork activates

5th April 1975 - Satoshi's Birthday

7th May 2015 - First JoinMarket coinjoin

22nd May 2010 - Pizza Day

?? 2010 - First GPU mining

?? - First p2pool block

7th June 2012 - localbitcoins opens

4th July 2015 - BIP66 soft fork activates, results in accidental chain split.

9th July 2016 - Second bitcoin halvening

28th July 2015 - Catastrophic near miss revealed. Disclosure of consensus bug that was fixed by BIP66 soft fork.

1st August 2017 - "UASF day" BIP148 trigger date for activating UASF for segwit.

?? 2012 - Bitcoin appears on a TV show for the first time

31st October 2008 - Bitcoin whitepaper published

12th November 2017 - First bitcoin block with miner fee income surpassing inflation subsidy. See also.

28th November 2012 - First bitcoin halvening

12 December 2010 - Satoshi's last public contact

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[LadangGalau]

The ATH, at the end of November 2013 and the past halving as well as the one to come soon are good options to add too.

[belcher]

Doh, forgot about the first halving

here it is https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

28th November 2012


Any price movements and ATHs could become out of date one day. They don't have the staying power of something like the Genesis Block Day IMO.

edit: second halvening too on 9th July 2016 https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000002cce816c0ab2c5c269cb081896b7dcb34b8422d6b74ffa1

[sbtctalk]

How many Bitcoins could be mined in each block before the very first halving?

[belcher]

How many Bitcoins could be mined in each block before the very first halving?

50 bitcoins. Right now we're in the era of 25 bitcoins per block and in a few weeks that will half to 12.5 btc

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Public holidays are fucking stupid and should be repealed.  All of them.  And faces of human beings should be eliminated from our currency.  This is why I like Peace Dollars and similar coins.  If I have to look at George Washington's ugly grill one more time, I'm going to vomit.  Bitcoin solves that problem.  But we definitely don't need bitcoin holidays.

[crairezx20]

Those are the events for bitcoin and the next even for bitcoin is the block halving in this july 10 2016..
Or are holidays for bitcoins

[LadangGalau]

Doh, forgot about the first halving

here it is https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

28th November 2012


Any price movements and ATHs could become out of date one day. They don't have the staying power of something like the Genesis Block Day IMO.

Oh because he intented these days to become holidays ? I though it was just a list. The ATH is valid, according to me, because it is a kind of mythical cap for near three years.

[sambiohazard]

Mt.Gox day - The day it officially closed,
The Hearnia Event.
Start of the False Battle (XT/Classic)
False Revelation I & II (Dorian/Wright)
Parity Day (1BTC = $1)

For future
Peter Wuille/SegWit Day
Lightening Day

[LadangGalau]

Mt.Gox day - The day it officially closed,
The Hearnia Event.
Start of the False Battle (XT/Classic)
False Revelation I & II (Dorian/Wright)
Parity Day (1BTC = $1)

For future
Peter Wuille/SegWit Day
Lightening Day

Nice ones ! Maybe you could add the last day of presence of Satoshi Nakamoto on the forum.

[belcher]

Doh, forgot about the first halving

here it is https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

28th November 2012


Any price movements and ATHs could become out of date one day. They don't have the staying power of something like the Genesis Block Day IMO.

Oh because he intented these days to become holidays ? I though it was just a list. The ATH is valid, according to me, because it is a kind of mythical cap for near three years.

If the price continues rising the $1100 ATH will look to them the way the $0.36 ATH looks to us today.

But it's all voluntary so do what you want.

[belcher]

Nice ones ! Maybe you could add the last day of presence of Satoshi Nakamoto on the forum.

Good one. His last post was December 12, 2010

and someone was already celebrating it

[LadangGalau]

Doh, forgot about the first halving

here it is https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

28th November 2012


Any price movements and ATHs could become out of date one day. They don't have the staying power of something like the Genesis Block Day IMO.

Oh because he intented these days to become holidays ? I though it was just a list. The ATH is valid, according to me, because it is a kind of mythical cap for near three years.

If the price continues rising the $1100 ATH will look to them the way the $0.36 ATH looks to us today.

But it's all voluntary so do what you want.

I doubt that that we will go to something like 2000$ this summer. Before that cap, the ATH wouldn't be really broke.

[~Bitcoin~]

Doh, forgot about the first halving

here it is https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

28th November 2012


Any price movements and ATHs could become out of date one day. They don't have the staying power of something like the Genesis Block Day IMO.

how can newly generated coin be 38 btc on halving as reward shows 25 btc block reward in this transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/76a30f7eefb41cd01733b23218faea8a1a1a2f6bbf1a2c11e4bc77f62c8e7ce9
 
which is in the same above block. 

[belcher]

Transaction fees for that block are 13.56295554 BTC
Looks like a lot of people paid to have their transactions inside that special block

[LadangGalau]

Transaction fees for that block are 13.56295554 BTC
Looks like a lot of people paid to have their transactions inside that special block

That's the only explanation I can figure, because there's no other possibility since Bitcoin is bug-free.

[sambiohazard]

When was this forum created? maybe that could be a day too. BCT Day
When first mining pool started - Pool Mining Day
When hashrate reached 1MH/GH/TH/PH/EH.

I am looking at this as attempt to capture all the major historic/future events.

[LadangGalau]

When was this forum created? maybe that could be a day too. BCT Day
When first mining pool started - Pool Mining Day
When hashrate reached 1MH/GH/TH/PH/EH.

I am looking at this as attempt to capture all the major historic/future events.

Nice ideas. I also suggest the day of the first ASIC introduction (announcement, sale or mining, whatever you want).

[belcher]

Good idea, we could add when reddit.com/r/bitcoin was created

I found this which has the earliest-known threads there on 12/8/2010 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fejsy/are_these_the_first_rbitcoin_posts_ever/

There can also be the dates of enforcement of other soft forks


14th December 2015 - BIP65 (OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY)

4th July 2015 - BIP66 (strict DER signatures) https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/38436/when-did-bip66-switch-from-activation-to-enforcement

[BitcoinPenny]

Pretty cool idea, belcher. Thanks!

Regards,
Chris