1. Birthday12 years ago on January. Great Satoshi, anonymous founder of bitcoin published the whitepaper of bitcoin. A P2P system that's allows you to do decentralized payment without involving any third person.
2. First trade On 18th May 2010, the worst trade just happened by a forum member named Laszlo. For the first time, he used bitcoin for buying stuff. He paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas from papa johns restaurant. This amount of bitcoin is more than 158,000,000 USD!
3. Rise and fall of Silk RoadLater on 2010-2011, Bitcoin was getting more and more popular. Having half anonymous transactions made bitcoin famous between criminals. In this moment of time, Silk Road was created for drug and gun trading on dark-web. Silk Road was using bitcoin as payment system. Two years later, founder of Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
4. Fall of Mt.GoxOn 2014, everything was going well. Until 744K bitcoins was lost on Mt.Gox the most important bitcoin intermediary and about 550 bitcoins was never returned to the cycle again.
5. Launching it to the moon!Back in 2017, the year was started with uptrend. In this year, the other crypto currencies also became famous and many ICOs (some fake) happened. During the ending of Autumn, Bitcoin reached 20,000 USD and this price level never touched after that year. But, the price could stay stable and was fallen down to 6,000 and later 3,200 USD.
6. The hedge against COVID-19The last winter was much colder than normal, economically. During the last winter, after the breakout of corona virus it fallen again to 3,700. But, The price recovered strong and very fast. This made bitcoin strong hedge against economic crisis. Now 12 years passed and after these 12 years, bitcoin is getting near to pass the historical record on 2017.
And the story continues . . .