History Of Bitcoin & Bitcointalk Infographic [Long Gif Inside]

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History of Bitcoin & Bitcointalk infographic


I have created an infographic based on information collected here on this post by member xtraelv . I have attempted to create a visual outlook of each event relating to either the forum or Bitcoin. I have included brief descriptions either made by myself or taken from the brief descriptions of xtraelv. I would like to thank xtraelv for making this possible by creating a topic with so much history collected in one place.

I intend on adding images and more information to the infographic as time passes. However being new to the creation of infographics I have been slogging away at this for around a week and thought I would release it for constructive criticism and hopefully being a useful guide. I am aware of a few spelling mistakes and grammar issues and the placeholder logo for the forum not being optimized.  

I will be creating separate versions of these infographics which will be dedicated to only the forums and Bitcoin.

The image is too big to preview on the forum and therefore I will include a link to the image instead.

Infographic Link
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Credits:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4322078.0 by xtraelv
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2905330.0 by Nalbo
tbct_mt2 for suggestions
Westingcote for pointing out spelling mistakes
LoyceV gif suggestion

[tbct_mt2]

OP, you should post image with BBcode (for forum). Then images will automatically display for others to see. Readers don't have to click on links just to see how your infographics looks like.
Additionally, I think you should spend a couple of minutes to look at that thread: 161 History of Bitcoin 2007-2014 , which might give you some valuable ideas.
Personally, it's too hard to choose most important things among them for your infographics. Missing important events will lead to misunderstandings for readers.

[hacker1001101001]

Great work bud ! I like it, as it is pretty much informative and I have not encountered any similar one.

OP, you should post image with BBcode (for forum). Then images will automatically display for others to see. Readers don't have to click on links just to see how your infographics looks like.

The image is too big to preview on the forum and therefore I will include a link to the image instead.

[Vod]

Nice work OP.   But there are a lot of spelling errors you should fix. 

[LoyceV]

OP, you should post image with BBcode (for forum). Then images will automatically display for others to see.

I tested it, but the file size is too large to embed it. It worked after I converted it to .GIF (2 MB), but that reduced the quality.
If OP can compress it a bit without compromising too much quality, it should work.

[Westingcote]

Nice info graphic! I have gone through and noted down any spelling mistakes that I have found and included a date so you can easily find them and change them.

Dates of the spelling mistakes :

November 22 2009: "he" "aswell"
January 15 2010: "annoucned"
June 11 2010: "being"
July 29 2010: "tim"
April 27 2011: "headquaters"
August 19 2012: "enery"
December 28 2016: "paymnet"


If you ctrl + F the words which are incorrectly spelled you should be able to find them quickly and amend them.

[Zedpastin]

Imgur does not seem to like my .gif file any other image hosting services which are accepted by the forum? Theres a slight quality loss which can make the writing difficult to read. I will try changing the font and hosting somewhere else. Maybe its the forum reducing the quality?

I tested it, but the file size is too large to embed it. It worked after I converted it to .GIF (2 MB), but that reduced the quality.
If OP can compress it a bit without compromising too much quality, it should work.

I am working on making this possible and hopefully without losing too much quality. To have it visible in the OP would be the best option and not linking to a external site.

Nice info graphic! I have gone through and noted down any spelling mistakes that I have found and included a date so you can easily find them and change them.

Dates of the spelling mistakes :

November 22 2009: "he" "aswell"
January 15 2010: "annoucned"
June 11 2010: "being"
July 29 2010: "tim"
April 27 2011: "headquaters"
August 19 2012: "enery"
December 28 2016: "paymnet"


If you ctrl + F the words which are incorrectly spelled you should be able to find them quickly and amend them.

Thank you for spotting these! I have fixed all of these spelling issues a long with some others that I had spotted. I will be releasing the final non image version as soon as I find a way to convert to gif without quality loss. There are probably more spelling mistakes in this final version so I would appreciate anyone pointing them out to me.

Additionally, I think you should spend a couple of minutes to look at that thread: 161 History of Bitcoin 2007-2014 , which might give you some valuable ideas.
Personally, it's too hard to choose most important things among them for your infographics. Missing important events will lead to misunderstandings for readers.

Thanks for this thread. I will be combining all my sources into one file and this fills in some blanks in a number of places.

Nice work OP.   But there are a lot of spelling errors you should fix. 

Most spelling errors should now be fixed. I will be going through it multiple times to change the font and add any grammar. I am thinking of removing all instances of "." at the end of each sentence for presentation.

[AverageGlabella]

The gif has a little quality loss but I think its good enough for a preview anyone who wants to see the high quality version can download the image. I think separating the timeline into smaller niches might help with the display of the gif as I think the gif might be to big for the forums limitations. Imgur is probably the best option available that supports a gif being uploaded.

[dkbit98]

Man this looks so good,
and if you fix spelling mistakes and maybe update graphics with original Bitcoin logo, it would be even better.

[finaleshot2016]

Nice infographics but it's too long.

It's good to make it in text form because there's a lot of spacing in there. As a viewer/reader, it's good to view all of the information where our eyes can see than scrolling a lot. Fix also the grammar but in overall, it's a helpful infographic.

[ChiBitCTy]

Very cool! I just did the same thing for physical bitcoins (link below). You’re welcome to use any of it if deemed appropriate. I would say that the introduction of BitBills here (first ever loaded physical bitcoin item/ paper wallet ) and Mike Caldwell’s Casascius coin announcement (first ever loaded physical bitcoin which helped countless individuals to be able to grasp the digital currency concept) might be worthy of adding. Again, well done!

edit: I see you have Casascius introduction already.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5174217.0

[Silent26]

Brilliant idea, simple and neat but it's too big.
My suggestions are,
-you should've reduced those empty spaces to make it smaller
-red font color aren't too good in the eyes
-spelling is so important
-I think it's better to add references in the infographic as well

Just some simple advice for a fellow designer.

[tbct_mt2]

Spliting the current infographic into 10 parts is not too bad idea. OP can keep the current infographic, but at the bottom of OP: let consider posting 10 links to 10 infographics, each one is for each year within the last 10-year period, from 2009 to 2019. People who have interests in which year and choose which infographic that satisfies their needs.

[LTU_btc]

Wow, you put lot of efforts into this infographic. Some facts that you've listed are new for me and I haven't seen it before. Some others already been forgotten, so it's good to remember and read about it again. Maybe few things listed in your infograhpic are not very important in my opinions, but in general, it's great.
P.S. I've never saw Jr. Member with so many merits like you .

[bL4nkcode]

Never heard/read some of the information here, especially those forum users mentioned. I guess its much better to chunk the images in every bullet list then give the source  on every thread of the data written, since so far, there's no sourc url on the infographic

[Harlot]

Surprised that neither Sirius and Cøbra wan't mentioned in the infographic especially they played an important role in making Bitcointalk and running it smoothly possible. Sirius co-founded Bitcointalk together with Satoshi Nakamoto and Cøbra is still the domain administrator of Bitcointalk and he still has the complete control over it. Also Sirius is also one of the few members here who we know his true identity which is [ur=https://twitter.com/marttimalmi?lang=enl]Martti Malmi[/url]

[o_e_l_e_o]

Couple of corrections.

Firstly, several more spelling mistakes:
Gavin Andresen as Gavin Andersen throughout
Trendon Shavers as Tendon Shavers (which sounds like an orthopedic operating instrument )
Andreas Antonopoulos as Andreases Antonopoulos
Cryptonote as Cryptnodte
 
Secondly, "SomethingAwful" wasn't a person. SomethingAwful.com is a website which hosts a fairly popular set of forums. It is thought the attacker was a SomethingAwful user.

[cabalism13]

Never seen such news before until it was mentioned at the OP. Good Work at finding those. Though the only problem was some mispelled words... But in total, the thread was fine as it contains trivias and facts.

Surprised that neither Sirius and Cøbra wan't mentioned in the infographic especially they played an important role in making Bitcointalk and running it smoothly possible. Sirius co-founded Bitcointalk together with Satoshi Nakamoto and Cøbra is still the domain administrator of Bitcointalk and he still has the complete control over it.

We can't really expect something to come out perfectly though. We, the audience should just take the opportunity to make a suggestion for more additional informations to be added until it can become perfectly synchronized to what we are expecting

Brilliant idea, simple and neat but it's too big.

Oh hey! Haven't seen ypu for a while? How's it going? 😊

[hd49728]

Satoshi: a forum creator on 22/11/2009, and was a head adminstrator till 2011.
Sirius: was a head administrator until 2012.
theymos: was a head administrator since sometimes around 2012, with a few months of transitions.
Cobra: bitcointalk.org domain name's owner.
Original details are in following posts.

It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.

Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.

That wiki article is kind of terrible...

The forum was opened to the public on Nov 22.

- During the school year, I am a full time student. I barely have time to administrate the forum.

- I was made a forum admin in 2011, after Satoshi left. (Silk Road also appeared after Satoshi left.) I didn't have any special access to bitcoin.org until around 2013, and in fact I didn't even have any access to the bitcointalk.org DNS until 2013.

The active administrators are currently:
theymos (me)
Gavin Andresen
sirius

Sirius runs the server.

Bitcoin.org:
 - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings.
 - Cobra runs the server.
 - Will Binns holds the BTC.

Bitcointalk.org:
 - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings.
 - I run the server. Cobra has no access to the database or server.
 - The BTC is held by myself and the treasurers. Cobra has no access.

I am not Cobra. What would even be the point of that?

There was a period where both Sirius and I were active administrators. For convenience, I reckon Jan 1, 2012 as when I became head administrator, though it was actually a gradual transition starting before and ending after that.