History of Cryptocurrency

[Magic-Maker-40]

The history of Cryptocurrency is a journey that started with the creation of Bitcoin(BTC) which is most well-known digital coin Basically the idea of creating a digital currency was explored by computer scientists and a cryptographic hey introduced the concept of digital money in 1980.

First Bitcoin:
The most well-known currency(BTC) was created in 2009 known as the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day witnessed by the first Bitcoin. The whitepaper “A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”  laid out the blueprint for a decentralized currency system that reeled on blockchain on January 3, 2009.

First use of BTC:
First-time Bitcoin(BTC) is used by Small community and tech enthusiasts. The first transection is took place on 10 May 2010 when the programmer paid 10000 BTC in the exchange of 2 pizzas. After BTC the second most popular cryptocurrency appear known as Ethereum was proposed by the programmer in 2013 and launched in 2015.

Altcoins:
The success of Bitcoin created a new way for the creation of other alternative currencies which are known as altcoins in these days the altcoin Litecoin (LTC) launched in 2011 was the first altcoin in the crypto.

First Exchange:
Mt. Gox was the first exchange where Bitcoin’s selling and purchasing started but the Mt. Gox exchange gated hack and caused a lot of BTC loss and raised concerns about the security of the exchange.

Initial coins (ICO’S):
The concept of an initial coin offering is as a funding method it is use to sell new cryptocurrency in the exchange of the already established currency like BTC or ETH that method boosts the creation of new altcoins.

Defi and Nft’s:
2020 is the rising year of decentralized finance which creates the traditional finance by using Blockchain technology
Many central banks are developing their own central digital currency. Cryptocurrency continually enveloping the new technology advancement cause of the new users and the developing technology

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[tbct_mt2]

First Bitcoin:
The most well-known currency(BTC) was created in 2009 known as the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day witnessed by the first Bitcoin. The whitepaper “A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”  laid out the blueprint for a decentralized currency system that reeled on blockchain on January 3, 2009.

First bitcoin on its public ledger and transaction history, is it what you want to write about. Because the transaction of 10,000 BTC  for 2 pizzas happened a long time after the Bitcoin genesis block.

Pizza for bitcoins?
That trade was done with this transaction https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d at the block #57,043, the block #0 or #1.

First use of BTC:
First-time Bitcoin(BTC) is used by Small community and tech enthusiasts. The first transection is took place on 10 May 2010 when the programmer paid 10000 BTC in the exchange of 2 pizzas. After BTC the second most popular cryptocurrency appear known as Ethereum was proposed by the programmer in 2013 and launched in 2015.

It is not a first transaction.

The first transaction between to peers is the transaction between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney.

Bitcoin and me
[History]Hal Finney - Man Who made a huge contribution to the development of BTC

First Exchange:[/b]
Mt. Gox was the first exchange where Bitcoin’s selling and purchasing started but the Mt. Gox exchange gated hack and caused a lot of BTC loss and raised concerns about the security of the exchange.

Is it a first Bitcoin exchange?

The first one is Bitcoin Market.
A bit of history: What the first bitcoin exchange looked like

[Dunamisx]

First Bitcoin:

We can also make an addition of the first bitcoin transaction made by Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney, this together with the history of bitcoin pizza remain unforgettable in the history of bitcoin in cryptocurrency.

First Exchange:[/b]
Mt. Gox was the first exchange

They are no where to be found today, there are many accusations base on the account of scam on them which they took part, people now hold their coins on a non custodial wallet and avoid the use of a  custodial means to store their bitcoin.

Initial coins (ICO’S):

This does not include in the bitcoin network, but we have them on other cryptocurrencies.

Defi and Nft’s:

We also needs to be informed that they exist in altcoins but the rate of their scam is far bigger than the advantage and benefits they served us, because scam rate in them are high.

[jossiel]

This seems to be a trivia thread and with everything that's first, don't forget about the very first Bitcoin faucet[1] made by Gavin and it was posted here and a lot of Bitcoins were given during that time.

But, of course it wasn't priced that much so giving them was easy and those who have kept it and sold on a higher price were the winners. And look at that thread, the bitcoin pizza, laszlo was the first in the comments and also our hero, satoshi.  

[1] Get 5 free bitcoins from freebitcoins.appspot.com

[bayu7adi]

I'd like to add a few points that, in my opinion, are noteworthy in Bitcoin's history.

Bitcoin's First Halving (2012)
This marked a significant cycle that had a profound impact on the Bitcoin network, as it reduced the block reward by 50%. During the first halving in November 2012, the block reward for BTC was halved from 50 BTC to 25 BTC. However, during this first halving, the price of Bitcoin didn't experience significant changes until, eventually, at the end of 2017, its price underwent a drastic shift. It was a truly surprising moment.

El Salvador's Adoption of Bitcoin (2021)
An astonishing international development occurred when El Salvador announced its decision to legalize Bitcoin as an official currency. This decision stood in stark contrast to several major countries that were implementing restrictions or even outright bans.

[taufik123]

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El Salvador's Adoption of Bitcoin (2021)
An astonishing international development occurred when El Salvador announced its decision to legalize Bitcoin as an official currency. This decision stood in stark contrast to several major countries that were implementing restrictions or even outright bans.

There is recent news about the development of Bitcoin in EL Salvador.
Currently, it is not only in the payment sector that is legalized, but Bitcoin will be applied to El Salvador's education curriculum.

"El Salvador's Ministry of Education and the non-governmental non-profit organization Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB), which means "My First Bitcoin," have reportedly entered into a partnership to add Bitcoin BTC education to the public school curriculum by 2024"

Training for the pilot test of the program will begin on September 7, which means it started yesterday.
With help from Bitcoin Beach, the Bitcoin diploma program will be taught to 150 public school teachers from 75 schools to give them "Basic Knowledge" of Bitcoin.

The program will be very beneficial for students to be more aware of how Bitcoin works and they have a foundation of Bitcoin before using it.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-to-introduce-bitcoin-education-in-schools-by-2024

[Hamza2424]

Except for the BTC, nothing was surprising at all, Every category and market development in the Crypto space caused many issues and crises except for the BTC even though I think BTC suffered most of the time due to the other aspects of the market and for now the suffering is due to the NFT's as we are getting meme pool filled up with these shit Ordinals of no use. On the name of the digital ART, it's really damaging the Bitcoin network. Anyway, narratives keep changing with time less wait and watch.

The project of this paper, when carried out, will tell a new story of cryptocurrencies: tks1ing.blogspot.com

A new story lets see.. For now, I just looked over what is it.. My pre-reading reaction is haha Buddy chooses heavy words as compared to the actual reality of it.

[lassdas]

Laszlos pizza-deal wasn't the first transaction.
LTC wasn't the first altcoin.
MtGox wasn't the first exchange.

Seems to me like some made up history.
Where did you do your research?

[nakamura12]

This is what happens to people who are misinformed by others or not doing enough research. That is not the first transaction in BTC Network but it indeed help the growth of BTC as there's no other transactions like that at the time. Well, everything that is mentioned do exist but it is not what your information said it to be. I wonder where you get all those information and then share it here. If you search here in the forum then you'll know that the information you provide is not accurate or true.

[Husires]

The source that you relied on contains false information, and it is not surprising that the history of Bitcoin is being made now, but some clear things, such as first exchange or altcoinare from history that can be easly review authenticity, and you will find that namecoin is the first alcoin, not litcoin, and mtgox is not first exchange despite it's fame.
Search using bitcointalk in google will give you better cryptocurrency history

[avp2306]

The history of Cryptocurrency is a journey that started with the creation of Bitcoin(BTC) which is most well-known digital coin Basically the idea of creating a digital currency was explored by computer scientists and a cryptographic hey introduced the concept of digital money in 1980.

First Bitcoin:
The most well-known currency(BTC) was created in 2009 known as the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day witnessed by the first Bitcoin. The whitepaper “A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”  laid out the blueprint for a decentralized currency system that reeled on blockchain on January 3, 2009.

First use of BTC:
First-time Bitcoin(BTC) is used by Small community and tech enthusiasts. The first transection is took place on 10 May 2010 when the programmer paid 10000 BTC in the exchange of 2 pizzas. After BTC the second most popular cryptocurrency appear known as Ethereum was proposed by the programmer in 2013 and launched in 2015.

Altcoins:
The success of Bitcoin created a new way for the creation of other alternative currencies which are known as altcoins in these days the altcoin Litecoin (LTC) launched in 2011 was the first altcoin in the crypto.

First Exchange:
Mt. Gox was the first exchange where Bitcoin’s selling and purchasing started but the Mt. Gox exchange gated hack and caused a lot of BTC loss and raised concerns about the security of the exchange.

Initial coins (ICO’S):
The concept of an initial coin offering is as a funding method it is use to sell new cryptocurrency in the exchange of the already established currency like BTC or ETH that method boosts the creation of new altcoins.

Defi and Nft’s:
2020 is the rising year of decentralized finance which creates the traditional finance by using Blockchain technology
Many central banks are developing their own central digital currency. Cryptocurrency continually enveloping the new technology advancement cause of the new users and the developing technology

Where did you find this information? To many inaccurate information posted so I will not get surprised that many forum users debunk the words you posted so maybe best to research more deeply about history so that next time when you post some information it will be interesting for us to read. The one you bring up here are generic and false information so expect that people will dislike it, if you want to earn merit bring informative post and not something like this since most likely many will just ignore this thread.

[Accardo]

OP, you would have made some changes or editing of your text or carryout more research. The first sentences are not well thought out, the syntax or word arrangement doesn't lead to a meaningful  paragraph. I hope you'll read from the examples presented by members here, then make corrections. The pizza day is well celebrated by bitcoiners, but its not the first transaction to happen in the bitcoin network. It's bad that your emphasis about the history of bitcoin is all wrong and not encouraging to be read by a newbie. However the comments here corrects the misleading aspect of your thread.

[JunaidAzizi]

The first transection is took place on 10 May 2010

You spend your energy on this information, gather it, and then post it here but the information you post here is wrong not all the information but some points. Many members mention that information in their replies but one I noticed is not only one I mentioned to you that the first transaction took place on 10 May 2010, but it is also wrong the right one is January 12, 2009. I don't know whether you gathered this information, Is that website authentic or not? Please do some good research on it again and then correct it, Spreading wrong information is not good for your account so do it hurry.

[BIT-BENDER]

This thread is not deep enough to be considered as a history related thread, infact I don't see the need of it, there is the internet where anyone can look up the history of Bitcoin and read and also good threads about Bitcoin already exist on the forum some are pinned.
 And op I noticed some errors on your post which signifies that you also need to do some learning yourself before making this type of post.

You can learn extensively alot about Bitcoin history from this thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441233.msg61818276#msg61818276

[Out of mind]

First Bitcoin:
The most well-known currency(BTC) was created in 2009 known as the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day witnessed by the first Bitcoin. The whitepaper “A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”  laid out the blueprint for a decentralized currency system that reeled on blockchain on January 3, 2009.

Bitcoin's blockchain was first released in 2009 and Bitcoin's popularity gradually increased. We know Bitcoin Pizza Day is held every year, and it is the biggest event for a Bitcoin. Where a person buys a pizza with 10k BTC bought by bitcoin, at that time the value of bitcoin was very low. Due to which, Bitcoin has gradually become so popular, and it is now possible to buy many luxury goods in the world with Bitcoin. And seeing this change in Bitcoin, we all have Bitcoin in our hearts and it is our trusted currency. Currently, Bitcoin is used in almost all countries of the world, many countries have officially sanctioned it and many are illegal, but even there Bitcoin transactions are hidden. So if we look at Bitcoin's past, we will definitely see how much Bitcoin has changed and if we do research, we will definitely understand how much Bitcoin's price and position will change in the future.

[Multi2demo]

The history of Cryptocurrency is a journey that started with the creation of Bitcoin(BTC) which is most well-known digital coin Basically the idea of creating a digital currency was explored by computer scientists and a cryptographic hey introduced the concept of digital money in 1980.

First Bitcoin:
The most well-known currency(BTC) was created in 2009 known as the famous Bitcoin Pizza Day witnessed by the first Bitcoin. The whitepaper “A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”  laid out the blueprint for a decentralized currency system that reeled on blockchain on January 3, 2009.

First use of BTC:
First-time Bitcoin(BTC) is used by Small community and tech enthusiasts. The first transection is took place on 10 May 2010 when the programmer paid 10000 BTC in the exchange of 2 pizzas. After BTC the second most popular cryptocurrency appear known as Ethereum was proposed by the programmer in 2013 and launched in 2015.

Altcoins:
The success of Bitcoin created a new way for the creation of other alternative currencies which are known as altcoins in these days the altcoin Litecoin (LTC) launched in 2011 was the first altcoin in the crypto.

First Exchange:
Mt. Gox was the first exchange where Bitcoin’s selling and purchasing started but the Mt. Gox exchange gated hack and caused a lot of BTC loss and raised concerns about the security of the exchange.

Initial coins (ICO’S):
The concept of an initial coin offering is as a funding method it is use to sell new cryptocurrency in the exchange of the already established currency like BTC or ETH that method boosts the creation of new altcoins.

Defi and Nft’s:
2020 is the rising year of decentralized finance which creates the traditional finance by using Blockchain technology
Many central banks are developing their own central digital currency. Cryptocurrency continually enveloping the new technology advancement cause of the new users and the developing technology

[kryptqnick]

Honestly, I don't understand why the op couldn't just fact-check the stuff before posting. So many mistakes there about the first things... It almost looks like something AI would hallucinate due to a lack of knowledge. The first 4 points were corrected by tbct_mt2, and I want to add a point about ICOs. First of all, all previous points mention the first something, but not this one. Secondly, ICOs are counterposed by the op to Bitcoin and Ethereum, but Ethereum was launched through an ICO!
As for the first ICO, Wikipedia says it was Mastercoin.

[tbct_mt2]

Secondly, ICOs are counterposed by the op to Bitcoin and Ethereum, but Ethereum was launched through an ICO!
As for the first ICO, Wikipedia says it was Mastercoin.

Ethereum is a first project used DAO (The Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and created a lot of noise as well as excitement and expectation among investors. Unfortunately, Ethereum the DAO was hacked.

History of Ethereum blockchain.
How The DAO Hack Changed Ethereum and Crypto
Decentralized Autonomous Organization

[stompix]

I really wish people would try to get over the headlines and do a little more research about this, so we don't end up with myths like these ones:

First use of BTC:
The first transaction is took place on 10 May 2010 when the programmer paid 10000 BTC in the exchange of 2 pizzas.

This is false, and one should really ask themselves, why did Lazlo say 10,000 BTC?
That's because the first actual transaction that involved a value in USD, not the test from Satoshi to Hal happened on Oct 12, 2009 when Sirius sold 5,050 BTC for $5.02.

Litecoin (LTC) launched in 2011 was the first altcoin in the crypto.

No, that was Namecoin.

Mt. Gox was the first exchange

No again, it was Bitcoinmarket.

Seriously OP, lock this topic, it will only help spreading misinformation!!!!

[Blitzboy]

I might take your comment as a rough draft for "An Overly Simplified History of Crypto," a short tale. With more technique and, dare I say, depth? Not to be hyperbolic, but I'd be on a private island if I got a Bitcoin for every time someone mentioned the legendary pizza buy. We missed so many opportunities! While we're recalling the past, why not discuss the Silk Road? Or the endless crypto vs. fakery debates? We're not doing that. We're focused on the best parts, and who can resist Ethereum's quick appearance after Bitcoin? Not like its history or technology is interesting. Even though it was off, the summary was interesting.