The Bitcoin Origins - Explore Bitcoin History and Secrets

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The Bitcoin Origins
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Pre-bitcoin

1984
F. A. Hayek
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhEDxFwFRU&t=1163

1988-01-09
The Economist - Get ready for a world currency
The Economist magazine "predicted" world currency that will come in year 2018.

1995
The Money Masters - documentary
Historical documentary that traces the origins of money structures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbarjpJhSLw

1997-03-28
Adam Back - Hashcash
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/announce.txt

November 1998
Wei Dai - bmoney
https://web.archive.org/web/20061202010422/http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt

1999
Milton Friedman
In this interview Milton Friedman predicted "reliable e-cash", which enables transfer of funds from A to B without A knowing B and B knowing A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwxdyLnMXM&t=872

2005-12-29
Nick Szabo - Bit Gold
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html

Bitcoin

2008

2008-08-18
Bitcoin.org
Satoshi Nakamoto registered domain name bitcoin.org at https://www.anonymousspeech.com.

2008-10-30
Bitcoin white paper
Satoshi Nakamoto published bitcoin white paper.
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

2008-11-09
Bitcoin on SourceForge
Bitcoin project has been registered at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/.

2009

2009-01-03 18:15:05 GMT
Genesis block
First bitcoin block mined.
Coinbase contain following text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
https://chain.so/block/BTC/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

2009-01-09
Bitcoin v0.1
Bitcoin v0.1 was released.

2009-01-10
Tweet - Hal Finney (@halfin)
"Running bitcoin"
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988

2009-01-12
Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha release notes
Satoshi introduced bitcoin on mailing list
https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/21312004/

Release notes for Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha

Bitcoin is a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer
network to prevent double-spending. It's completely decentralized
with no server or central authority.

You can find screenshots and the download link at:
http://www.bitcoin.org

Windows only for now. Open source C++ code is included.

- Unpack the files into a directory
- Run BITCOIN.EXE
- It automatically connects to other nodes

If you can keep a node running that accepts incoming connections,
you'll really be helping the network a lot. Port 8333 on your
firewall needs to be open to receive incoming connections.

The software is still alpha and experimental. There's no guarantee
the system's state won't have to be restarted at some point if it
becomes necessary, although I've done everything I can to build in
extensibility and versioning.

You can get coins by getting someone to send you some, or turn on
Options->Generate Coins to run a node and generate blocks. I made
the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to start with, so
for a little while in the beginning a typical PC will be able to
generate coins in just a few hours. It'll get a lot harder when
competition makes the automatic adjustment drive up the difficulty.
Generated coins must wait 120 blocks to mature before they can be
spent.

There are two ways to send money. If the recipient is online, you
can enter their IP address and it will connect, get a new public
key and send the transaction with comments. If the recipient is
not online, it is possible to send to their Bitcoin address, which
is a hash of their public key that they give you. They'll receive
the transaction the next time they connect and get the block it's
in. This method has the disadvantage that no comment information
is sent, and a bit of privacy may be lost if the address is used
multiple times, but it is a useful alternative if both users can't
be online at the same time or the recipient can't receive incoming
connections.

Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It'll be distributed
to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
every 4 years.

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
etc...

When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if
needed. It's based on open market competition, and there will
probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.

Satoshi Nakamoto

Response of Hal Finney:
https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/21312757/

...

Congratulations to Satoshi on this first alpha release. I am looking
forward to trying it out.

...

It's interesting that the system can be configured to only allow a
certain maximum number of coins ever to be generated. I guess the
idea is that the amount of work needed to generate a new coin will
become more difficult as time goes on.

One immediate problem with any new currency is how to value it. Even
ignoring the practical problem that virtually no one will accept it
at first, there is still a difficulty in coming up with a reasonable
argument in favor of a particular non-zero value for the coins.

As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that Bitcoin is successful and
becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout the world. Then the
total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all
the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household
wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With
20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.

So the possibility of generating coins today with a few cents of compute
time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million
to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim,
are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about...

Hal

2009-01-12
First transaction
Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney ([block 170](https://chain.so/block/BTC/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee)). Transaction fee was 0 BTC.
Tx:
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16
Hal Finney’s address:
https://chain.so/address/BTC/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm31Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3

2009-01-21
Tweet - Hal Finney (@halfin)
"Looking at ways to add more anonymity to bitcoin"
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1136749815

2009-01-27
Tweet - Hal Finney (@halfin)
"Thinking about how to reduce CO2 emissions from a widespread Bitcoin implementation"
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1153096538

2009-02-11
Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source

2009-10-05
New Liberty Standard
Bitcoin first exchange rate: 1 USD = 1,309.03 BTC
https://web.archive.org/web/20091229132610/http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/Exchange+Rate

2009-10-12
First bitcoin to fiat sale (5,050 BTC for $5.02)
Finnish developer Martti Malmi sold 5,050 BTC for $5.02 to New Liberty Standard. This was probably first bitcoin to fiat sale.
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/7dff938918f07619abd38e4510890396b1cef4fbeca154fb7aafba8843295ea2
[Tweet](https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/423455561703624704): "Found the first known bitcoin to USD transaction from my email backups. I sold 5,050 BTC for $5,02 on 2009-10-12."

2009-11-22
Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!
Satoshi Nakamoto introduced new Bitcoin forum - _bitcointalk.org_
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28

2009-12-16
Bitcoin v0.2
Bitcoin v0.2 was released.

2009-12-30
Bitcoin mining difficulty increased
Bitcoin mining difficulty was increased for the first time ([block 32,256](https://chain.so/block/BTC/000000004f2886a170adb7204cb0c7a824217dd24d11a74423d564c4e0904967)).

2010

2010-01-15
New exchange (Bitcoin Market)
The first exchange Bitcoin Market has been created.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20.0

2010-05-22
Pizza for bitcoins?
Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizza for 10,000 BTC. That was the most expensive pizza in history. From this day May 22 is celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0
Tx:
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d
Address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/17SkEw2md5avVNyYgj6RiXuQKNwkXaxFyQ

2010-06-11
Get 5 free bitcoins from freebitcoins.appspot.com
Gavin Andersen created first bitcoin faucet. Everyone was able to get 5 bitcoins for free.
Gavin wrote: "Five ฿ per customer, first come first served, I've stocked it with ฿1,100 to start. I'll add more once I'm sure it is working properly."
Satoshi's response: "Excellent choice of a first project, nice work. I had planned to do this exact thing if someone else didn't do it, so when it gets too hard for mortals to generate 50BTC, new users could get some coins to play with right away. Donations should be able to keep it filled. The display showing the balance in the dispenser encourages people to top it up.

You should put a donation bitcoin address on the page for those who want to add funds to it, which ideally should update to a new address whenever it receives something."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183.0
Bitcoin faucet address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

2010-07-18
New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com)
Mt. Gox exchange has been introduced by Jed McCaleb.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444.0

2010-07-25
How many bitcoins do you own? Let us know!
Bitcointalk user knightmb send screenshot, that he own 371,067.36 BTC. That was 10 % of all current available bitcoins.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130523174017/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=564.msg5607#msg5607
More info: [Anyone know what happened to knightmb and his 371,000 BTC?](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6825.0)

2010-08-09
Lost large number of bitcoins (8,999 BTC)
Original poster had 9,000 BTC and sent 1 BTC to his address and 8,999 BTC has been sent to change address without known private key. It was first large loss of bitcoins.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=782.0
Tx:
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/eb5b761c7380ed4c6adf688f9e5ab94953dcabeda47d9eeabd77261902fccccf
Address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/167ZWTT8n6s4ya8cGjqNNQjDwDGY31vmHg

2010-08-10
Bitcoin /dev/null address
Bitcoin address [1111111111111111111114oLvT2](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1111111111111111111114oLvT2) has been used for the first time (received more than 68 BTC). Its RIPEMD-160 hash is 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Bitcoin sent to this address are "destroyed", because its private key is not known.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3777/what-is-the-bitcoin-equivalent-of-dev-null

2010-08-15
Bitcoin inflation bug
At block 74638 has been created 92,233,720,368.54277039 BTC. It has been fixed and rolled back.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0

2010-11-08
The Origin of shitcoin
The word "shitcoin" first used.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1647.msg20646#msg20646
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/d78wqx/the_origin_of_shtcoin/

2010-11-27
World first mining pool - slushpool.com
Marek Palatinus (slush) introduced first bitcoin mining pool.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.0

2011

2011-01-06
32 BTC for holding sign on street
Random guy on street received 32 BTC for dressing up in a crazy outfit and holding a sign.
[Article](https://web.archive.org/web/20130618021437/http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html) contained his [bitcoin address](https://chain.so/address/BTC/15Qvts3L2ML538ybH3xP9hKrM282QS6NSL).
He received additional 96 BTC.

February 2011
Silk Road started
Online anonymous marketplace using bitcoin and TOR.
[The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable](https://web.archive.org/web/20110618074633/https://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable)

2011-02-10
Bitcoin dollar parity
Bitcoin reached exchange parity with US dollar (1 USD = 1 BTC)
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/online-only-currency-bitcoin-reaches-dollar-parity

2011-02-15
Car for Sale - Australia
First car offered for 3,000 BTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0

2011-03-06
Mt. Gox is changing owners
Mt. Gox changed owner from Jed McCaleb to Mark Karpeles.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4187.0

2011-03-22
YouTube - What is Bitcoin?
One of the first video which explains what is bitcoin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo

2011-04-23
Satoshi's last message
"I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
https://pastebin.com/syrmi3ET

2011-05-16
Tweet - Greg Schoen (@GregSchoen)
"I wish I had kept my 1,700 BTC @ $0.06 instead of selling them at $0.30, now that they're $8.00! #bitcoin"
https://twitter.com/GregSchoen/status/70261648811761665

2011-06-05
For sale: beach condo near Tokyo
User akasakarealestate selling beach condo near Tokyo for 3,500 BTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12185.0

2011-06-13
I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen)
Stolen 25,000 BTC from hacked PC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16457.0
Tx: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/4885ddf124a0f97b5a3775a12de0274d342d12842ebe59520359f976721ac8c3
Address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsyFqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg

2011-06-14
Tweet - WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
"WikiLeaks now accepts anonymous Bitcoin donations on 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v"
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/80774521350668288
WikiLeaks received more than 4,043 BTC to address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v

2011-06-18
Deterministic wallets
Concept of deterministic wallets and derivation path was introduced. This enabled creating HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) wallets, which remembered only seed words instead of having growing number random private keys stored in encrypted file on computer.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=19137.0

2011-06-19
259,684.77 BTC for 2,622.82 USD
BitcoinTalk user Kevin was able to buy 259,684.77 BTC (each for 0.0101 USD) during bitcoin price crash on Mt. Gox. Price started at 17.50 USD and crashed to 0.0101 USD. Total price was about 2,622.82 USD. User was able to transfer 643.27 BTC to his personal wallet, until Mt. Gox transfer limit was reached.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20207.0

2011-06-21
Bitcoin Eater address destroyed first bitcoins
On this date [1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE) address received first transaction. Bitcoins sent to this address are "destroyed", because no one knows private key for this address. Current balance is over 13 BTC.
This address was probably first mentioned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26539.msg332538#msg332538

2011-06-23
Mt. Gox liquidity transaction
By this [transaction](https://chain.so/tx/BTC/3a1b9e330d32fef1ee42f8e86420d2be978bbe0dc5862f17da9027cf9e11f8c4) Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles sent 442,000 BTC from one address to another to prove Mt. Gox liquidity.
It was sent 424,242.42424242 BTC to one address, how is prowen by [leaked IRC logs](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=5r1hnink3nruufcpcdsm3cujo0&topic=492776.msg5449491#msg5449491).

2011-07-15
Tweet - Thomas Randolph (@rockerest)
"Well, Bitcoin has stabilized at almost exactly $14/coin. I'm tired of waiting for a jump, so I'm taking the loss and getting my cash back"
https://twitter.com/rockerest/status/91885405368098816

2011-07-26
Bitomat.pl 17,000 lost bitcoins
During system restart was wiped bitcoin wallet from Amazon service without backup. It was lost 17,000 BTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33457.0
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/j4t58/3rd_largest_bitcoin_exchange_has_lost_its/

2011-09-06
CASASCIUS PHYSICAL BITCOIN - In Stock Now! (pic)
Casascius started selling physical bitcoin coins with loaded bitcoins. The most popular denomination was 1 BTC, but it was also created 0.1, 0.5, 5, 10, 25, 1000 BTC and for bars 100, 500 and 1000 BTC.
Introduced here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41892.0
Private key in minikey format is hidden under hologram.
Could be tracked here: https://casascius.ludvigart.com/
and here: https://casascius.ludvigart.com
Casascius is vulnerable to physical attack: https://www.coindesk.com/defcon-hackers-crack-physical-bitcoin-casascius-coins

2011-11-16
The biggest bitcoin transaction
500,000 BTC and 50,000 BTC belonging to Mt. Gox has been send.
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/29a3efd3ef04f9153d47a990bd7b048a4b2d213daaa5fb8ed670fb85f13bdbcf

2011-11-23
Benjamin Wallace - The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
Article explaining the beginning of Bitcoin rise to $29.57 and fall to less than $5 for one bitcoin. Author of article is writing that name Satoshi Nakamoto might be a sly portmanteau of four tech companies: SAmsung, TOSHIba, NAKAmichi, and MOTOrola
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf-bitcoin/

2012

2012-01-01
Bitcoin 2011 Conference
First bitcoin conference in Europe was at Prague (2011).
Simon Dixon - Disrupting Banking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oeMsfm5D5s

2012-03-01
Slush hacked
Someone hacked Marek Palatinus's (creator of Slush pool and Trezor wallet) backup machine hosted on Linode and stole 3,094 BTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66916.0
Tx: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/34b84108a142ad7b6c36f0f3549a3e83dcdbb60e0ba0df96cd48f852da0b1acb

2012-03-24
Pay rent in Las Vegas with bitcoin
"The current exchange rate is 4.69 US Dollars per Bitcoin."
"Send us 234.54 bitcoins and your rent of $1100 will be paid up for a month."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=73712.0

2012-04-24
SatoshiDICE.com - The World's Most Popular Bitcoin Game
First bitcoin dice gambling site.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77870.0

2012-07-09
Tweet - Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees)
"#Bitcoin just broke $7.00... now up 40% in the last 30 days and most people don't even know what we're up to #forex #finance #gold #money"

2012-07-13
93,433 BTC to Second Life currency
About 93,433 bitcoins is used to buy Second Life virtual currency - Linden dollars.
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/07/bitcoin-and-linden-dollars.html

2012-09-25
Bitcoin 2012 London
Max Keiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEHIOi8iXqE
Mike Hearn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA
Richar Stallman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM

2012-11-28
First bitcoin halving (50 to 25 BTC)
First bitcoin halving occured in [block 210,000](https://chain.so/block/BTC/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e). The block reward dropped from 50 BTC to 25 BTC.

2013

2013-01-30
First ASIC miner delivered to user
It was AVALON ASIC with hash rate 68 GH/s.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140099.0

2013-02-18
Ideas for /r/Bitcoin ads?
First ad for bitcoin Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/18smyy/ideas_for_rbitcoin_ads/

2013-03-19
Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
Hal Finey is describing his beginnings with bitcoin and his fatal ALS disease.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0;u=35827

2013-03-31
Silk Road fake murder transaction
By this [transaction](https://chain.so/tx/BTC/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad72416d1758470e19fb1d2fa2a145b5601) Silk Road operator Dread Pirate Roberts sent 1,670 BTC to someone to perform a hit on an individual who was extorting the deep web marketplace. Murder does not happened because murderer was a blackmailer.
https://news.bitcoin.com/silk-road-fake-murder-mystery-may-be-solved/

2013-04-01
Bitcoin value surpasses $100
https://venturebeat.com/2013/04/01/bitcoin-value-above-100-bubble/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/bitcoin-value-triples-in-a-month-to-all-time-high-of-more-than-100/

2013-04-09
Bitcoin Surpasses $200 Mark, Continuing 'Epic' Rise
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/09/176708504/bitcoin-surpasses-200-mark-continuing-epic-rise?t=1568386738864

2013-04-28
First CoinMarketCap snapshot
Bitcoin price was $134.21.
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20130428/

2013-05-16
Transaction with 30 BTC fee
Reddit user selax77 messed up transaction fee and sent [transaction](https://chain.so/tx/BTC/7e8fce9686572d8308d8c40fa3cb96fdbf96c0787c147d3159c893fd560aabc7) with 30 BTC fee. Mining pool returned 7.5 BTC in this [transaction](https://chain.so/tx/BTC/1a3a7e334d5d894c66830dadd2f94f22f64b0c3aa5fb4cc956ef6734f1bb98ab).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1eh57i/messed_up_transaction_feeplease_help/

2013-05-16
YouTube - Max Keiser - Bitcoin, Bernanke & Buffett | London Real
Max Keiser started accumulating bitcoins for $2-$3 each. Brian Rose said he owns 2 BTC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onv9-fHoEc

2013-07-17
SatoshiDice has been sold for 126,315 BTC
Erik Voorhees sold his bitcoin gambling site for 126,315 BTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101902.msg2751536#msg2751536

2013-08-30
Bitcoin time-traveler "prediction"
Author of Reddit post said he time-traveled from 2025. His "prediction": _"On average, every year so far, the value of Bitcoin has increased by about a factor ten. From 0.1 dollar in 2010, to 1 dollar in 2011, to 10 dollar in 2012, to 100 dollar in 2013. From now on, there's a slight slowdown, as the value increased by a factor ten every two years, to 1,000 dollar in 2015, to 10,000 in 2017, 100,000 in 2019, and 1,000,000 in 2021."_
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_timetraveler_from_the_future_here_to_beg/

2013-09-10
BIP39 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

2013-11-07
Naval - Bitcoin - The Internet of Money
https://nav.al/bitcoin-the-internet-of-money

2013-12-18
I AM HODLING
A drunk guy spelt HOLD wrong and started bitcoin HODL meme.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

2013-12-20
Bloomberg TV just showed a private key for a bitcoin gift certificate on the air
In a Bloomberg series "12 days of bitcoin" one of the host opens bitcoin paper wallet private key and show it on air. Someone took the bitcoins (0.02920731 BTC) immediately.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1tcot0/bloomberg_tv_just_showed_a_private_key_for_a/
Tx: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/ba69fde72b078f71e350935b18cd93a3d8fa5cfd791304e5ef5b81a98ed13c41

2014

2014-01-04
Counterparty (XCP) Proof of burn
Altcoin XCP started using proof of burn (sending bitcoins to _1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr_ address) to create XCP coins in alternative chain. This address received more than 2,130 BTC, which are not spendable.
https://chain.so/address/BTC/1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
All bitcoins sent to this addres are "destroyed", because private key for this address is not known.

2014-01-21
Marc Andreessen - Why Bitcoin Matters
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/

2014-01-28
YouTube - The Impact of the Bitcoin documentary
In documentary is Michael Hill that converted all his assets into bitcoins (about $140,000). Another man running martial arts school in Tokio received 130 BTC in exchange for $1,500 worth of lessons. Gavin Andersen, one of the first core developer of Bitcoin, is shown in video. Another man is converting half of his salary ($800) into bitcoins. Connection of Bitcoin and Silk Road is discussed here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs40FVL7s2Q

2014-02-07
Mt. Gox hacked
The biggest bitcoin hack. It was stolen 744,408 BTC.
https://blockonomi.com/mt-gox-hack/

2014-02-24
Support the Revolution - Ukraine
Ukraine protestors started campaign to raise money via bitcoin. Their bitcoin address https://www.blockchain.com/cs/btc/address/1Fkp2maqnjP24wjFy47sfMPGVGji7ybvPE already collected more than 7 bitcoins.
https://www.coindesk.com/hold-ukraine-protestors-turn-bitcoin-fundraising
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/ukraine-protest-photos-police-and-protesters-clash-during-demonstrations-in-kiev.html

2014-03-14
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-247957.html
He [claimed](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-the-hunt-for-satoshi-turned-dorian-nakamoto-s-life-upside-down-the-inside-story-1443721034) he "did not create, invent or otherwise work on Bitcoin".

2014-07-01
Tim Draper bought 29,656 BTC from Silk Road
Tim Draper bought 29,656 BTC seized from Silk Road in auction for 18 mil USD.
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/9e95c3c3c96f57527cdc649550bf8e92892f7651f718d846033798aee333b0c3
Silk Road sized coins: https://chain.so/address/BTC/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN455paPH

2014-07-29
Trezor One - first hardware wallet
First hardware wallet was released by SatoshiLabs. It is currently one of the best ways to secure your bitcoins.
https://wiki.trezor.io/Trezor_One

2014-10-08
YouTube - Andreas M. Antonopoulos educates Senate of Canada about Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNGFZDO8mM

2014-10-10
Documentary - The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
https://vimeo.com/213776538

2014-10-17
YouTube - Bitcoin 101 - Quindecillions & The Amazing Math Of Bitcoin's Private Keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloHVKk7DHk

2014-12-20
Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin
https://bitcoinbook.info/

2015

2015-01-04
Bitstamp hack
Near 20,000 BTC has been stolen from Bitstamp to address [1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf)
First transaction (3,100 BTC): https://chain.so/tx/BTC/a32697f1796b7b87d953637ac827e11b84c6b0f9237cff793f329f877af50aea

2015-01-15
Bitcoin puzzle transaction
On this date the bitcoin puzzle transaction has been sent. This transaction has 256 outputs with total value 32.896 bitcoins. Private keys for this outputs are numbers that are between 2^(n-1) and 2^n - 1. For example private key for second output is between 2^1 and 2^2 - 1 = 2 and 3.
Transaction: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0
Solutions:
1 | [1BgGZ9tcN4rm9KBzDn7KprQz87SZ26SAMH](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1BgGZ9tcN4rm9KBzDn7KprQz87SZ26SAMH) | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
2 | [1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb) | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003
3 | [19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA](https://chain.so/address/BTC/19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA) | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007
4 | [1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e](https://chain.so/address/BTC/1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e) | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008
...

2015-04-03
"The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto" puzzle
"The painting is a #puzzle, there is 4.87 #bitcoin concealed by this image. Happy #EasterEgg https://i.imgur.com/OSpEZtA.jpg"
Address (solved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd
Solution: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzpqzz/heres-the-solution-to-the-3-year-old-dollar50000-bitcoin-puzzle

2015-08-07
DEF CON 23 - Cracking Cryptocurrency Brainwallets
Ryan Castellucci introduced his high speed brainwallet cracker, "Brainflayer". Which was able to "steal" 250 BTC from brainwallets (all bitcoins has been returned to their owners).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foil0hzl4Pg
IMPORTANT: Brainwallets are not safe and shouldn't be used!! Read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=311000.msg3345309#msg3345309

2015-11-01
YouTube - The Bitcoin Gospel - VPRO documentary
Features Andreas Antonopolous, Peter Todd, Roger Ver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg
At the beginning Roger Ver sends bitcoins worth 100 EUR (0.409762 BTC) to bitcoin wallet. Private key for this wallet is shown to camera, so someone was able to take bitcoins.
Address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/18VxeqVC9C1oQEh164GQhLnWvLiLPuc4br
Roger Ver's funding transaction: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/2cfb4c0790e141b78aa80dc758a88d3aabd0ee99df7c8dd938d1e23af54a1bf4

2015-12-29
Jeff Garzik - Bitcoin is Being Hot-Wired for Settlement
https://medium.com/@jgarzik/bitcoin-is-being-hot-wired-for-settlement-a5beb1df223a

2016

2016-01-14
Lightning network white paper
Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja proposed off-chain solution to scale bitcoin with series of bidirectional micropayment channels.
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

2016-04-26
Transaction 0.0001 BTC with fee 291.2409 BTC
Someone by mistake sent 0.0001 BTC with transaction fee 291.2409 BTC.
https://chain.so/tx/BTC/cc455ae816e6cdafdb58d54e35d4f46d860047458eacf1c7405dc634631c570d

2016-07-09
Second bitcoin halving (25 to 12,5 BTC)
Second bitcoin halving occured in [block 420,000](https://chain.so/block/BTC/000000000000000002cce816c0ab2c5c269cb081896b7dcb34b8422d6b74ffa1). The block reward dropped from 25 BTC to 12,5 BTC.

2016-08-02
Bitfinex hack
Stolen 119,756 BTC.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-bitcoin-hack-know-dont-know

2016-09-15
Elizabeth Stark - What is the Lightning Network and how can it help Bitcoin scale?
https://coincenter.org/entry/what-is-the-lightning-network

2017

2017-05-28
Man throw away 1,500 BTC
Campbell Simpson throw away harddisk containing 1,500 BTC five years ago. It will be probably lost forever.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/05/i-threw-away-4-8-million-in-bitcoin/

2017-05-29
Bulgarian Government has sized more than 213,519 bitcoins
"The Bulgarian authorities have searched more than 100 addresses, suspects and vehicles. A large quantity of money was seized, as well as equipment, devices for communication, computers, tablets, bank documents, etc. 23 suspects were arrested, 5 of them acting as Bulgarian Customs officers. As result of this criminal activity the damages recorded by the Customs Agency, only for year 2015, is around 10 million Leva. It was determined that the members of the organized crime group invested the money obtained from these illegal activities in bitcoins, around 200,000 being discovered in the virtual space. As a reference, the value of one bitcoin is rating to 2354 USD. The offenders choose the bitcoin way of investing/saving the money, because it is rather difficult to be tracked and followed."
https://www.selec.org/more-than-200000-bitcoins-in-value-of-500-million-usd-found-by-the-bulgarian-authorities/

2017-07-12
"Buy Bitcoin" sign
Man (#BitcoinSignGuy) held up a "Buy Bitcoin" sign during Fed chair Janet Yellen's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2017/07/12/someone-held-up-a-buy-bitcoin-sign-during-yellens-testimony-to-congress.html
He received more than 7 BTC in donations: https://chain.so/address/BTC/1GwtZF9QFKWNqCRHLx1Y9adGcrhQSUnNfY

2017-08-01
Bitcoin Cash hard fork
Starting with block 478,558 new altcoin has been created which had 8MB block size.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2040221.0

2017-08-15
Blockstream Satellite
Blockstream company announced Blockstream Satellite, that broadcasts real-time bitcoin blockchain data from Space. It brought bitcoin to places, where the Internet connection is not available.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockstream-satellite-broadcasting-bitcoin-space

2017-08-24
Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft fork activated
SegWit is soft fork bitcoin update, which allows up to 4 megabytes data in block if only SegWit transaction was used.
Fixed malleability bug, which enabled future layer two improvement - Lightning Network.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/segregated-witness-activates-bitcoin-what-expect
Block 481,824: https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/block-height/481824

2017-09-21
YouTube - The Economics Of Bitcoin And Why It’s A Long Term Asset
Simon Dixon is talking why Bitcoin is important for everyone to hodl bitcoin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBpUL1VDKU

2017-10-12
Lamborghini for $115
Peter Saddington bought $200,000 2015 Lamborghini Huracan for 45 BTC. He bought more than 1000 bitcoins in November 2011 for $2.52 each.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY86vH7z9qA
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/personalfinance/this-crypto-millionaire-bought-a-lamborghini-for-dollar115-thanks-to-bitcoin/ar-BBIQeC7

2017-10-22
YouTube - I'm A Teenage Bitcoin Millionaire
18-year old Erik Finman bought bitcoin at 12 years old at $10-$12 a coin. He was able to buy 400+ BTC with $1,000 extra money from his grandmother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FNmp3mKp4

2017-12-01
Rusty Russell - The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin
Rusty is writing about three bitcoin phases:
First Era: Satoshi’s Free Offer (2009–2014) - bitcoin was almost invaluable and transactions was almost free
Second Era: Satoshi’s Subsidy (We Are Here) - starting capacity issues
Third Era: Self Sufficiency (2028? onwards)
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a

2017-12-05
Roger Ver's tweet made Andreas Antonopolous millionaire
Tweet (https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/938137951518773248): "Andreas is one of the most eloquent speakers on the topic of Bitcoin, but if he had invested even $300 in bitcoin back in 2012, he’d be a millionaire today."
After that tweet Andreas received many bitcoins from his fans.
https://fortune.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin-prices-anton-antonopoulos-rich/

2017-12-06
NiceHash hacked
Stolen 4,736 BTC.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_press_release_statement_by_nicehash/
Hacker address: https://chain.so/address/BTC/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh1mB4rq

2018

2018-01-23
Gregory Trubetskoy - Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
https://grisha.org/blog/2018/01/23/explaining-proof-of-work/

2018-03-02
Vilay Boyapati - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
"With broader participation from retail and especially institutional investors, a price level between $100,000 and $200,000 is feasible. Owning bitcoins is one of the few asymmetric bets that people across the entire world can participate in. Much like a call option, an investor’s downside is limited to 1x, while their potential upside is still 100x or more."
https://medium.com/@vijayboyapati/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1

2018-04-24
Saifedean Ammous - The Bitcoin Standard
https://saifedean.com/the-book/

2018-05-09
Tweet - Max Keiser, tweet poet. (@maxkeiser)
"#Bitcoin Maximalists understand BTC’s disruptive nature is the absolute disruptive limit a crypto coin can achieve and that no coin will ever match Bitcoin’s scope in the ruthless disruption of the global banking system."
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/994230140744949760

2018-05-19
1 BTC is hidden in this puzzle. Good luck!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8kk0pa/1_btc_is_hidden_in_this_puzzle_good_luck/

2018-05-23
Tweet - Vijay Boyapati (@real_vijay)
"Bitcoin is the ultimate digital land grab.

We all get a chance to be George Washington, buying up the Ohio territory for a nickel.

Have you got your parcel yet?"
https://twitter.com/real_vijay/status/999071304803270656

2018-06-02
StopAndDecrypt - Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-miners-beware-invalid-blocks-need-not-apply-51c293ee278b

2018-08-25
Hugo Nguyen - Bitcoin, Chance and Randomness
https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/bitcoin-chance-and-randomness-ba49a6edf933

2018-10-02
310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9kq7it/introducing_the_310_btc_bitcoin_challenge/
Author's website: https://bitcoinchallenge.codes
Address (0.1 BTC - solved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/1446C8HqMtvWtEgu1JnjwLcPESSruhzkmV
Address (0.2 BTC - solved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/1G7qsUy5x9bUd1pRfhVZ7cuB5cMUP4hsfR
Address (0.31 BTC - unsolved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/3NPZiNWiD7cCfXZa1D8tnEZBPgQ884cVw7
Address (310 BTC - solved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/39uAUwEFDi5bBbdBm5ViD8sxDBBrz7SUP4

2018-10-31
Dan Hedl - Planting Bitcoin
https://medium.com/@danhedl/planting-bitcoin-56bd1459cb23

2018-11-03
Tweet - Trace Mayer (@TraceMayer)
"Happy birthday #Bitcoin! 10 years & crazy magic Internet money experiment still going stronger than ever.#ProofOfKeys is slightly impacting the network. But fees have not gone crazy. No CTO heart attacks. No CFO suicides. World has not ended. Next year will be even bigger!"
https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status/1080847387806044161

2018-11-21
Hasu - An Honest Account of Fiat Money
https://medium.com/@hasufly/why-bitcoin-3fdee2328759

2018-11-21
Tweet - Francis Pouliot (@francispouliot_)
"The price of Bitcoin will never go to zero because if worse come to worse I will buy everyone's bitcoins at 0.01$ for sentimental value. 200,000$ to own all the bitcoins? Totally worth it."
https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1065003845955272705

2018-12-04
Hasu - Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract
https://medium.com/s/story/bitcoins-social-contract-1f8b05ee24a9

2018-12-13
Tweet - Jimmy Song (@jimmysong)
"If you are pacifist, you should be doing everything you can to put the world on a sound money standard.

War is always funded by printing money. Taking that power away from the state restricts the scope of war massively."
https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1073008634119024640

2018-12-13
Hasu - Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights
https://medium.com/@hasufly/bitcoin-and-the-promise-of-independent-property-rights-8f10e5c7efa8

2018-12-14
Tweet - Francis Pouliot (@francispouliot_)
"Bitcoin is unfakeable digital gold that you can instantly teleport from one impenetrable vault to another, opened only using your self-generated password, nobody able to stop your payment, with no registration or intermediary required. There will never be more than 21M bitcoins."
https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1073365354464862208

2018-12-26
Tweet - Denis Parker (@Xentagz)
"You will find #Bitcoin at the end of your crypto research. You will be annoyed why it took you so long."
https://twitter.com/Xentagz/status/1077870201314701312

2019

2019-01-03
BitMEX thanks Satoshi in Times
"Thanks Satoshi. We owe you one."
"Happy 10th birthday, Bitcoin."

2019-01-07
Street art treasure hunt
Street artist created bitcoin puzzle in Paris containing 0.28 BTC.
https://twitter.com/pascalboyart/status/1082082762180513793
Address (0.28 BTC - solved): https://chain.so/address/BTC/1NqPwPp7hEXZ3Atj77Ue11xAEMmXqAXwrQ
Solution: https://www.pboy-art.com/single-post/2019/01/13/Solution-de-l%C3%A9nigme-de-la-fresque-La-Libert%C3%A9-guidant-le-peuple-2019
Solution is 12 seed words: _banker usury lie people fight hope union citizen lead triumph horizon yellow_

2019-02-22
Tweet - Jimmy Song (@jimmysong)
"So much of the life we live has been designed by the oligarchy that has successfully brainwashed us into doing/thinking/wanting the very things that they sell.

Start unplugging. Start by taking away the financial power of the elite. Start with Bitcoin."

2019-03-22
Plan B - Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-with-scarcity-91fa0fc03e25
https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/episodes/bitcoin-math-and-value-plan-b/amp/

2019-05-07
7,000 BTC hacked from Binance Exchange
The hackers were able to withdraw 7,000 BTC in this one transaction.
https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028031711
Tx: https://chain.so/tx/BTC/e8b406091959700dbffcff30a60b190133721e5c39e89bb5fe23c5a554ab05ea

2019-05-15
Dan Held - Bitcoin’s Security is Fine
https://blog.picks.co/bitcoins-security-is-fine-93391d9b61a8

2019-07-10
Tweet - Vijay Boyapati (@real_vijay)
"No money will have lower inflation than #Bitcoin. In a few halvings gold will seem like the printing presses compared to Bitcoin."
https://twitter.com/real_vijay/status/1148960299682164736

2019-07-12
Tweet - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
"I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity...."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192

2019-08-08
First mining pool suporting BetterHash
Blockstream announced Blockstream Pool. First mining pool supporting BetterHash, which is mining protocol that allows each miner to choose transactions to a new block.
https://blockstream.com/2019/08/08/en-mining-launch/

2019-08-13
Tweet - Bitcoinization (@bitcoinization)
"In 2015 I sold 800 BTC to buy a house for my family.

In 2018 I sold my house and bought back 50 BTC.

People who thinks I'm crazy for selling my house please know that my only regret is to have sold my bitcoins.

Investment in Real Estate is now garbage comparing to #Bitcoin."
https://twitter.com/bitcoinization/status/1161310562866880513

2019-08-22
Tweet - Misir Mahmudov (@misir_mahmudov)
"Time is the currency of life

If somebody wastes your time, they're murdering a part of your life. A micromurder @mrcoolbp

If your wealth loses value, your scarce time is stolen

Bitcoin is the only thing just as scarce as time

Bitcoin is the only antidote against time theft"
https://twitter.com/misir_mahmudov/status/1164271127369265152

2019-08-24
James O'Beirne - Bitcoin for safety
https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html

2019-08-28
Shamir backup
Satoshi Labs introduced new seed handling security standard that allows generation of multiple recovery shares and apply multisignature scheme on seeds. For example for recovering seed from 2-of-3 Shamir shares, you need to have at minimum 2 shares from 3. If attacker has only one recovery share, he is not able to recover seed.
https://blog.trezor.io/shamir-backup-the-revolution-of-private-keys-backup-is-here-858687ed7fe7

2019-09-03
Tweet - Rhythm (@Rhythmtrader)
"Not owning bitcoin is just as much of an investment as owning bitcoin.

You're just investing in the current system, which:

1) Values spending over saving
2) Prints money endlessly & manipulates
3) Rages trade & currency war
4) Has $17T of negative yielding debt

Choose wisely."
https://twitter.com/Rhythmtrader/status/1168895301953970176

2019-09-08
Tweet - Rhythm (@Rhythmtrader)
"Bitcoin is a game of musical chairs.

The music will eventually stop playing and there are only 17 million chairs for 7.7 billion people to choose from.

Don't get caught without a place to sit."
https://twitter.com/Rhythmtrader/status/1170662704316592129