Hello Diamond Community,
Crypto Books are happy to announce that progress has been made in terms of the research for the DMD Book. What follows is a rough timeline of the main events from the 13th July 2013 to March 2014 (April 2014 will be added in the next day or so):
13th July - Block number one timestamped to the DMD blockchain at 06:22:11 UTC.
13th July - Initial DMD Bitcointalk forum thread created at 23:48:18 UTC by user "JohnLuc".
15th July - First known specific DMD mining pool launched at
http://diamondcoin.miningpool.co by user "ethought"
23rd July - Coins-e was the first cryptocurrency exchange to initiate trades of DMD and BTC.
26th July - Second exchange called Cryptsy activated direct DMD to BTC trading.
28th July - Version 1.1 wallet client released.
30th July - Three mining pools existed which specifically supported DMD.
10th August - Calls were made for an official DMD Developement Team Takeover.
19th August - A 75 DMD bounty (6 days later 100 DMD) was put up by user "Hippie Tech" to encourage the creation of the first DMD block explorer.
25th August - Updated wallet client version 1.0.0.0-pd-1 released.
17th September - difficulty of the network protocol skyrocketed!
SEPT-OCT - There was little development of DMD during this period. User "JohnLuc" had become absent.
13th November - First post by user "zuper" submitted on the initial DMD Bitcointalk forum thread.
24th November - Developers were sought after by user "zuper" in order to help update the wallet client software.
1st December - Brand new version 1.1 wallet client released.
1st December - Enthusiasm evident that the community back as being active.
4th December - An updated wallet client announced as being in progress.
9th December - DMD subjected to a 51% attack
10th December - Both Cryptsy and Coins-e suspended trading of DMD.
10th December - Calls were made for a decent lead developer to take DMD forward.
13th December - First DMD block explorer created by user "Tripmode" at
http://diamondblocks.info.
16th December - Version 1.0.2 wallet client released.
16th December - Cryptsy resumed trading of DMD.
16th December - Official takeover of DMD announced and the second DMD Bitcointalk thread created.
16th December - New revamped official DMD website went live.
19th December - DMD added to
www.coinmarketcap.com.
30th December - First post by user "cryptonit" submitted on the second DMD Bitcointalk forum thread.
1st January - A new layout/format of
http://diamondblocks.info thanks to user "Zaak".
6th January - Official DMD subreddit created at www/reddit/com/r/dmd thanks to user "captchunk".
7th January - First post by user "popshot" submitted on the second DMD Bitcointalk forum thread.
9th January - User "zuper" outlined the next steps of planned DMD development.
11th January - Official DMD Facebook page founded.
23rd January - Official DMD Twitter account created.
27th January - Official DMD forum went live at
http://dmdcoin.net/forum.
18th February - User "popshot" clarified the status of future DMD developments.
18th February - Version 1.0.3 wallet client released.
18th February - Initiation of voting to get DMD on
www.coinpayments.net began.
23rd February - First DMD Coin Raffle began.
1st March - DMD added to the payment processor site called
www.coinpayments.net.
14th March - Version 1.0.4 wallet client released.
(APRIL 2014 TO FOLLOW SOON...)
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