Bitcoin Timeline

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Background

Bitcoin is a sum of technologies, ingeniously combined into a single whole. Like the personal computer, the Internet, and the iPhone before it, Bitcoin is a compilation of several existing technologies and theories. It was the previous developments in the field of cryptography, virtual currencies and computer networks that allowed Satoshi Nakamoto to create the first decentralized digital currency (cryptocurrency) that works without censorship.

  • 1976 - Whitfield Diffie ( Whitfield a Diffie ) and Martin Hellman ( by Martin Hellman ) published a paper "New Directions in modern cryptography» ( the New the Directions in Cryptography ), which sets out the principles of public-key encryption (asynchronous encryption).

  • 1976 - London Institute of Economic Relations ( Institute of Economic Affairs ) published an Austrian economist book, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Friedrich Hayek ( Friedrich August von Hayek ), entitled "Private Money" , in which he proposed denationalise money, as in the field of emission money, in his opinion, the state monopoly is harmful to society.

  • 1979 - Ralph Merkle ( by Ralph the Merkle ) patented the concept of a tree of hashes, which was named after him - the tree Merkle or hash tree.

  • July 1982 - Leslie Lamport ( Leslie Lamport ), Robert Shostak ( by Robert Shostak ), and Marshall Pease ( Marshall Pease ) published a report "The problem of Byzantine generals» ( of The Byzantine Generals Problem ), which offered a solution to the Byzantine generals problem when applied to distributed computer networks.

  • 1982 - David Chaum ( by David Chaum ) formalizes eCash in his article " The Blind the Signatures for Untraceable Payments' " ( « Blind signatures for untracked payments" ).

  • June 18, 1996 - a group of experts ( of Laurie Law, by Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas ) of Cryptologic Research Department of Management and Information Security Technology NSA USA published an article " How to the Make a Mint : the Cryptography of Anonymous has of Electronic Cash " ( «How to make Mint: Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash " ), which describes a system in which secure financial transactions can be carried out using a decentralized network.

  • May 1997 - Adam Beck ( by Adam the Back ) develops Hashcash - system proof of work done, used initially to reduce the amount of spam and DoS-attacks.

  • 1998 - Nick Szabo ( Nick Szabo ) conceptualized Bit Gold ( digital gold ).

  • November 1998 - Wei Dai ( The Wei Dai ) publishes an essay describing Bed and-money - a system for "anonymous, distributed electronic money system."

  • August 2002 - The US National Security Agency (NSA ) publishes the Secure Hash Signature Standard , which includes the SHA-256 hash function .

  • 2004 - Hal Finney ( by Hal Finney ) creates RPoW ( reusable proof of the work performed ).

Covering letter from Satoshi Nakamoto to the text of the report Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

2008

Covering letter from Satoshi Nakamoto to the text of the report Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

  • November 9, 2008 - The Bitcoin project was registered on the SourceForge.net developer site .

  • November 16, 2008 - Satoshi Nakamoto released 4 files ( node.h, node.cpp, main.h, min.cpp ) of the preliminary version of the Bitcoin protocol source code .

2009

  • January 3, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto generated the first Bitcoin block ( Genesis ) and received the first 50 coins to his Bitcoin address. The first block included the text: “The Times 03 / Jan / 2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

Genesis dump of Bitcoin block (fragment).

  • January 8, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto has published the first release of Bitcoin Core v.0.1 . on the Cypherpunks mailing list .

  • January 9, 2009 - the first release of the Bitcoin Core v.0.1 program . published on bitcoin.org . On the same day, block 1 was generated and regular work on generating blocks begins.

  • January 10, 2009 - The second node (node) appeared in the Bitcoin network . Second user Bitcoin became Hal Finney ( by Hal Finney ). On the same day, he generated block # 78 and received the first 50 coins to his bitcoin address.

  • January 11, 2009 - First mention of Bitcoin on Twitter : Hal Finney announced that he started working with Bitcoin - ' Running bitcoin ' .First release of bitcoin client v0.1.0

a First Bitcoin prices on the New Liberty Standard website

  • October 12, 2009 - The # bitcoin-dev chat channel was launched on IRC .

  • November 17, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto, together with Marty Malmi, creates a web forum on the Bitcoin.org domain ( / smf folder ), which subsequently first moved to the forum.bitcoin.org subdomain (May 2011), and then to the BitcoinTalk.org domain (September 2011).

  • November 19, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto logs into the web forum under the nickname satoshi .

  • November 20, 2009 - Marty Malmi registers on the web forum under the nickname sirius .

  • November 22, 2009 - The web forum goes live, Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the first post-invitation: Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!

  • December 16, 2009 - Bitcoin Core 0.2 was released. For the first time, the icon of this version has a graphic symbol of Bitcoin - the Latin letter B with two vertical lines, like the symbol of the American dollar ( $ ). Initially, there were two letters BC on the Bitcoin icon .

asd The first Bitcoin logo.

  • December 30, 2009 - mining difficulty has been increased for the first time . It was 1.18289953.

First successes

2010

  • 17 March 2010 - he started the first site exchange Bitcoins - Bitcoinmarket.com . Initially, the site accepted payments from PayPal to exchange BTC for fiat.

  • May 18, 2010 - Pizza for bitcoins post appears on the BitcoinTalk.org web forum ? , In which the user under the name laszlo wrote: "I will pay 10,000 Bitcoins in a couple of pizzas» ( I of a pay'll 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of the pizzas ).

  • May 22, 2010 - the first purchase of goods with payment in bitcoins: for 10,000 bitcoins ($ 25 at the exchange rate at that time), two pizzas were purchased. Buyer - programmer Laszlo Hanech ( Laszlo Hanyecz ), known for having created the program of mining Bitcoins on the GPU (graphics processor), and the seller - Jeremy Sturdivant ( Jeremy Sturdivant ).

  • June 11, 2010 - Gavin Andresen (Gavin Andresen) announced the launch of the first Bitcoin-tap ( fauset ) handing out free Bitcoins. For this, he created the site https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ . Initially, Andresen handed out 5 BTC to everyone , donating his 1,100 BTC for this. " ... I want the Bitcoin project to succeed, and I think it has a better chance of success if people can get a few coins to try it out, " Andresen said of the goal of giving away bitcoins for free.

  • July 7, 2010 - Bitcoin Core v0.3 was released.

  • July 11, 2010 - the first publication about Bitcoin on the Slashdot portal, popular among computer scientists .

  • July 17, 2010 - Mt.Gox crypto exchange was founded .

  • July 28, 2010 - A Russian-language section appeared on the BitcoinTalk web forum . This was the first localized (non-English) section of the forum. The initiator of the creation was a forum user under the nickname bitcoinex . The first Russian-language topic was “ How many users does BC have? ".

  • August 15, 2010 - a bug in the bitcoin code caused a "dirty" transaction in block 74638 - more than 184 billion BTC (the exact value is 184 467 440 737.09551616 ) were transferred in one transfer. An hour later, the error was discovered , the code was corrected within a few hours ( CVE-2010-5139 ), and as a result of a deliberate fork, the "clean" block 74691 became a replacement for the "dirty" blockchain.
    Note : A list of all discovered Bitcoin vulnerabilities .

  • 17 March 2010 - he started the first site exchange Bitcoins - Bitcoinmarket.com . Initially, the site accepted payments from PayPal to exchange BTC for fiat.

  • May 18, 2010 - Pizza for bitcoins post appears on the BitcoinTalk.org web forum ? , In which the user under the name laszlo wrote: "I will pay 10,000 Bitcoins in a couple of pizzas» ( I of a pay'll 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of the pizzas ).

  • May 22, 2010 - the first purchase of goods with payment in bitcoins: for 10,000 bitcoins ($ 25 at the exchange rate at that time), two pizzas were purchased. Buyer - programmer Laszlo Hanech ( Laszlo Hanyecz ), known for having created the program of mining Bitcoins on the GPU (graphics processor), and the seller - Jeremy Sturdivant ( Jeremy Sturdivant ).

  • June 11, 2010 - Gavin Andresen (Gavin Andresen) announced the launch of the first Bitcoin-tap ( fauset ) handing out free Bitcoins. For this, he created the site https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ . Initially, Andresen handed out 5 BTC to everyone , donating his 1,100 BTC for this. " ... I want the Bitcoin project to succeed, and I think it has a better chance of success if people can get a few coins to try it out, " Andresen said of the goal of giving away bitcoins for free.

  • July 7, 2010 - Bitcoin Core v0.3 was released.

  • July 11, 2010 - the first publication about Bitcoin on the Slashdot portal, popular among computer scientists .

  • July 17, 2010 - Mt.Gox crypto exchange was founded .

  • July 28, 2010 - A Russian-language section appeared on the BitcoinTalk web forum . This was the first localized (non-English) section of the forum. The initiator of the creation was a forum user under the nickname bitcoinex . The first Russian-language topic was “ How many users does BC have? ".

  • August 15, 2010 - a bug in the bitcoin code caused a "dirty" transaction in block 74638 - more than 184 billion BTC (the exact value is 184 467 440 737.09551616 ) were transferred in one transfer. An hour later, the error was discovered , the code was corrected within a few hours ( CVE-2010-5139 ), and as a result of a deliberate fork, the "clean" block 74691 became a replacement for the "dirty" blockchain.
    Note : A list of all discovered Bitcoin vulnerabilities .

Dirty transaction at block 74691

  • September 18, 2010 - in test mode, the first block was generated by the first mining pool Slush Pool , with the help of which several miners can work collectively. (?)

  • November 6, 2010 - BTC capitalization exceeded $ 1,000,000 .

  • December 7, 2010 - Bitcointalk forum user doublec created the Bitcoind application for the Nokia N900 smartphone .

  • December 8, 2010 - the first ever p2p transaction in the bitcoin network via a mobile device - a user of the Bitcointalk forum ribuck transferred 0.42 BTC to the bitcoin address 18T1jQ9QT1fsDJ7q8YKBGhdM56iYt4sXoV, owned by doublec .

  • December 13, 2010 - the last activity of Satoshi Nakamoto on the web forum forum.bitcoin.org ( BitcoinTalk.org ) .

  • December 16, 2010 - The world's first mining pool , Slush Pool , was launched .

  • December 2010 - the main developer of the client Bitcoin Core becomes Gavin Andresen ( of Gavin Andresen ).

First confession

2011

  • February 9, 2011 - Bitcoin is equal in value to the US dollar. At the Mt.Gox trades, $ 1 was given for 1 bitcoin.

  • February 2011 - the anonymous electronic trading platform Silk Road , accepting bitcoins, was launched.

  • On February 14, 2011 - for the first time a car (a used Porshe) was listed on the exchange for bitcoins - a seller from Australia set the price at 3,000 BTC .

  • March 27, 2011 - the first exchange for exchanging bitcoins for British pounds BTC / GBP was opened .

  • March 31, 2011 - the first exchange for the exchange of Brazilian reais for bitcoins Bitcoin Brazil was opened .

  • April 5, 2011 - the first exchange for exchanging Polish zlotys for bitcoins BitMarket.eu was opened .

  • April 16, 2011 - the magazine TIME published an article Online Cash the Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks ( « Online Cash Bitcoin can challenge governments and banks " ).

  • April 20, 2011 - Online Forbes published an article by Andy Greenberg ( Andy Greenberg ) called Crypto the Currency ( " Cryptographic currency "), which for the first time the media was used the term " cryptocurrency " .

  • April 23, 2011 - Satoshi Nakamoto's last known contact . On this day, the question of one of the developers of Bitcoin Mike Hearn ( Officers Mike Hearn ), whether he plans to join the community, Satoshi replied :
    ' I of've Moved on to OTHER things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone ' .

The last known public post by Satoshi Nakamoto. April 23, 2011.

  • June 2, 2011 - Bitcoin price surpassed $ 10 for the first time .

  • June 13, 2011 - the first known message about the theft of bitcoins - a user of the Bitcointalk forum with the nickname allinvain published a message under the heading “I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen) ” (“ I just got hacked - any help appreciated! (25,000 BTC stolen) ”). In it, he wrote: “Today I am completely devastated. I just woke up and saw that a very large part of my bitcoin balance was gone. " He went on to explain: “The theft happened right after someone hacked my Slush pool account (the first mining pool - S. B.). In a moment of utter stupidity, I didn't think that perhaps my entire system had been compromised. I just thought that someone had hacked my [account] Slush pool password. "
    Theft transaction: 4885ddf124a0f97b5a3775a12de0274d342d12842ebe59520359f976721ac8c3

  • June 14, 2011 - WikiLeaks begins accepting anonymous Bitcoin donations.

  • June 16, 2011 - discovered the first malicious software ( Malware ) Bitcoin theft.

  • June 19, 2011 - the database of the Mt.Gox exchange was hacked . 60 thousand users were affected, whose data ( email addresses and passwords ) fell into the hands of scammers. Also, an unknown hacker infiltrated the Mt.Gox administration account, sent out hundreds of thousands of counterfeit bitcoins and thereby lowered the cryptocurrency rate from $ 17.5 per coin to 1 cent. In addition, on the same day, thousands of coins were stolen from the accounts of users of the MyBitcoin wallet .

  • June 22, 2011 - Room77 bar in Berlin became the first stationary (offline) business to accept bitcoins for payment.

  • June 24, 2011 - mining difficulty ( difficulty ) exceeded 1,000,000 ( 1 million ) for the first time .

  • June 24, 2011 - BitcoinTalk.org domain was registered .

  • June 29, 2011 - BitPay launched the first e-wallet for smartphones .

  • July 22, 2011 - BitCoins Mobile , the first mobile application for iPad , was released .

  • August 1, 2011 - the web forum created by Satoshi Nakamoto on the forum.Bitcoin.org domain moved to the BitcoinTalk.org domain .

  • August 19, 2011 - Amir taak ( Amir Taaki ) created the first the BIP ( the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal Proposal ).

  • August 19, 2011 - The world's first Bitcoin conference opens at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, with about 50 participants. The conference was made by Gavin Andresen ( of Gavin Andresen ).

  • September 6, 2011 - Mike Caldwell ( Officers Mike Caldwell ) starts to mint a physical Bitcoins , calling the coin Casascius . Coins were issued from brass and silver in denominations of 1, 10, 25, 100 and 1000 BTC.

  • September 23, 2011 - Bitcoin Core version 0.4.0 was released.

  • October 12, 2011 - Litecoin is launched (a fork of Bitcoin , a peer-to-peer electronic payment system using the cryptocurrency of the same name).

  • November 21, 2011 - Bitcoin Core version 0.5.0 was released.

  • November 25, 2011 - The first cryptocurrency conference in Europe was held . The event took place in Prague (Czech Republic).

2012

Takeoff

2013

  • February 19, 2013 - Bitcoin Core version 0.8.0 was released.

  • March 12, 2013 - unintended fork in the network Bitcoin - Bitcoin miner-running the new version 0.8.0 the Bitcoin Core , has created a large block that was not compatible with the version 0.7 . As a result, the blockchain was split (forked) into two chains. The problem was solved by reverting to version 0.7. User funds remained largely unaffected and became available within a few hours when the network consensus was restored.

  • March 19, 2013 - Hal Finney under the name Hal writes on the web forum BitcoinTalk.org post Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) in which he told the story of his initiation to Bitcoins.

  • March 28, 2013 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 1 billion for the first time .

  • April 2, 2013 - Bitcoin price exceeded $ 100 for the first time .

  • July 3, 2013 -

  • August 19, 2013 - The Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany issued a statement that bitcoin is essentially a "unit of account" and can be used for taxation and trade purposes in the country. The German Ministry of Finance noted that bitcoin cannot be classified as an electronic or foreign currency, but rather fits the definition of private money , with the help of which multilateral clearing operations can be carried out.

  • October 14, 2013 - Chinese company Baidu begins accepting bitcoins .

  • October 29, 2013 - the first officially operating cryptocurrency ATM ( Bitcoin ATM ) Robocoin , which sells bitcoins, was launched. It was installed at Waves Cafe in Vancouver, Canada.

  • November 22, 2013 - The largest ever transaction in the Bitcoin network was made . More than 194,993.5 BTC were moved , equivalent to approximately $ 149 million at the time. It is noteworthy that this transaction went through with zero commission.

  • November 26, 2013 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 10 billion for the first time .

  • November 27, 2013 - Bitcoin price exceeded $ 1000 for the first time .

  • December 5, 2013 - The People's Bank of China has banned Chinese financial institutions from using bitcoins. Baidu has stopped accepting bitcoins.

  • December 17, 2013 - The Tor Project began accepting Bitcoin donations .

  • December 18, 2013 - A user of the BitcoinTalk.org forum under the nickname GameKyuubi published a post I AM HODLING . The word HODL in the meaning of keeping and not selling bitcoins ( Hold On for Dear Life - to keep as if life depends on it ) has become a meme in the bitcoin environment.

  • December 21, 2013 - mining difficulty ( difficulty ) exceeded 1,000,000,000 ( 1 billion ) for the first time .

2014

  • January 2014 - Bitcoin mining network speed exceeded 10 petahashes / sec . (10,000,000,000,000,000 Hash / sec).

  • January 2014 - The first secure bitcoin vault is opened in London - Elliptic Vault with insurance signed by Lloyd's of London .

  • February 28, 2014 - Crypto exchange Mt.Gox filed for bankruptcy amid reports of 744,000 bitcoin theft.

  • March 7, 2014 - Satoshi Nakamoto's last public activity. On the P2P foundation forum, he writes, " I am not Dorian Nakamoto ."

  • March 19, 2014 - Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 was released.

  • April 7, 2014 - the main developer of Bitcoin Core becomes Vladimir van der Laan ( Wladimir van der Laan ).

  • May 7, 2014 - The Securities and Exchange Commission ( the SEC - Securities and the Exchange Commission ) publishes a report "Preventing investor: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency» ( Investor Alert: the Bitcoin and Other the Virtual the Currency-updates Related Investments is ) which provides a brief description of Bitcoin ...

  • June 3, 2014 - For the first time, a mining pool ( Ghash.io ) has reached the computing power sufficient to carry out a 51% attack .

  • June 13, 2014 - the Ghash.io mining pool reached 55% of the computing power of the Bitcoin network and within almost a day (from 2014-06-12 11:53:05 to 2014-06-13 09:45:24 GMT) had more 50% power . Poole voluntarily reduced its stake in the network to avoid being accused of carrying out a 51% attack .

  • July 1, 2014 - an article by Jerry Brito ( Jerry Brito ) and Eli Dourado ( Eli Dourado ) called Sryptocurrency ( " cryptocurrency " ), which is explained by Bitcoin and how they are changing the world of finance.

  • July 9, 2014 - The first Bitcoin mining forum was held in London as part of the CoinSummit conference , where participants (representatives of mining pools and ASIC manufacturers) agreed to maintain the decentralization of the Bitcoin network and prevent the concentration of computing power over 50% in one hand.

  • July 2014 - Newegg and Dell started accepting bitcoins for payment.

  • August 28, 2014 - Hal Finney , who was at the forefront of the creation of Bitcoin, died.

  • 2 September 2014 goda - Matt Korallo ( Matt Corallo ) announced Bitcoin Relay Network - a high-speed block-relay network for relaying Bitcoins blocks with low latency (on the order of 100-300 ms). The purpose of the network is to create a backup option in case of problems with the Bitcoin network and a potential decrease in network latency (decrease in block propagation time).

  • September 2014 - Bitcoin first appeared in the popular animated series "The Simpsons» ( of The The Simpsons ).

“Bitcoins Accepted” is written on a billboard in Jimbo Jones in the popular animated series The Simpsons.

The calm before the storm

2015

  • February 16, 2015 - Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 was released.

  • July 12, 2015 - Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 was released.

  • October 2, 2015 - consortium Unicode ( Unicode Consortium ) has been presented a proposal to add to the character encoding standard Unicode sign Bitcoin ( ₿ ).

  • October 22, 2015 - The European Court of Justice (ECJ ) ruled that bitcoin-to-fiat exchange transactions are exempt from VAT.

2016

  • February 23, 2016 - Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 was released.

  • May 2, 2016 - Australian businessman Craig Wright ( Craig Steven Wright ) has announced that it is Satoshi Nakamoto - founder of Bitcoin.

  • January 2016 - Bitcoin mining network speed exceeded 1 exshash / sec . (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hash / sec).

  • March 4, 2016 - The Japanese Cabinet of Ministers has recognized virtual currencies such as Bitcoin as "asset-like values ​​that can be used to make payments and transferred digitally . "

  • On July 9, 2016 - the second halving of bitcoin - after the generation of 420,000 blocks, the reward for miners decreased from 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC.

  • August 23, 2016 - Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 was released.

  • September 2016 - The number of bitcoin ATMs has doubled in the last 18 months and reached 771 ATMs worldwide.

A parade of forks and a new takeoff

2017

  • March 8, 2017 - Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 was released.

  • March 2017 - The number of Bitcoin-related projects on GitHub has exceeded 10,000 .

  • May 23, 2017 - Miners and developers signed the New York Agreement , which implied an increase in the block size to 2 MB ( Segwit2Mb ).

  • May 26, 2017 - Published the first article on the Bitcoin Review Blog .

  • June 20, 2017 - a consortium of the Unicode ( the Unicode Consortium ) added to the character coding standard Unicode® 10.0.0 sign Bitcoin - ₿ (the U + 20BF) .

  • June 21, 2017 - The founder of AngelList (a site for startups and investors) Naval Ravikant wrote a tweetstorm (a series of posts on Twitter) called the Blockchain Manifesto .

  • July 25, 2017 - The Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) publishes an Investigation Report under Section 21 (a) of the Stock Exchange Act 1934 regarding The DAO , which states that the offers and sales of digital assets by “virtual” organizations are subject to federal securities laws .

  • August 1, 2017 - as a result of the planned fork blokcheyna Bitcoin , a new cryptocurrency the Bitcoin Cash (a BCH) . The main difference is the increase in the volume of the block of transactions up to 8 MB .

  • August 15, 2017 - the Blockstream Satellite service began operating , allowing connection to the Bitcoin blockchain via satellite communications.

  • August 24, 2017 - Activation of Segregated Witness ( SegWit ), which allowed the use of second-level solutions (sidechains), such as the Lightning Network , to solve the problem of Bitcoin scaling.

  • September 14, 2017 - Bitcoin Core version 0.15.0 was released.

  • September 18, 2017 - mining difficulty ( difficulty ) exceeded 1,000,000,000,000 ( 1 trillion ) for the first time .

  • October 12, 2017 - Bitcoin price exceeded $ 5000 for the first time .

  • October 24, 2017 - as a result of the planned fork blokcheyna Bitcoin , a new cryptocurrency the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) .

  • October 25, 2017 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 100 billion for the first time .

  • November 24, 2017 - as a result of the planned fork blokcheyna Bitcoin , a new cryptocurrency the Bitcoin Diamond dial (the BCD) .

  • November 29, 2017 - Bitcoin price in cryptocurrency markets exceeded $ 10,000 for the first time .

  • November 29, 2017 - the investor, trader and writer James Altusher ( James Altucher ) makes 10 predictions about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency , which caused a wide resonance and discussion kriptosoobschestve.

  • December 6, 2017 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 200 billion for the first time .

  • December 16, 2017 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 300 billion for the first time .

  • December 17, 2017 - Bitcoin price in cryptocurrency markets exceeded $ 20,000 ($ 20,089.00) for the first time, according to CoinMarketCap .

  • December 17, 2017 - Bitcoin futures trading begins on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Group Inc. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE .

  • 27 December 2017 - as a result of the planned fork blokcheyna Bitcoin , a new cryptocurrency the Bitcoin God (GOD) . The main difference is the transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).

Bear market

2018

  • January 24, 2018 - the largest business publication The World Street Journal published an article by the head of SEC Jay Clayton ( Jay Clayton ) and chairman of the CFTC Christopher Giancarlo ( Christopher Giancarlo ) entitled "Regulators look at cryptocurrency» ( Regulators Are Looking AT Cryptocurrency ) in which the technology of public blockchain, or DLT , is recognized as "the development that underpins many new financial products, including cryptocurrencies," but it is noted that the task of market regulators"Is to establish and enforce rules that foster innovation and enhance market integrity and trust . "

  • February 6, 2018 - "Black Tuesday" - the price of bitcoin per day fell by almost $ 2,500 amid reports from China about the intention of the country's authorities to take additional measures aimed at blocking any domestic and foreign platforms related to trading virtual currencies or ICOs.

  • February 6, 2018 - at the hearing before the Committee on Banking Senate head SEC Jay Clayton ( Jay Clayton ) acknowledged that "in the broad sense, cryptocurrency are with intrinsic value items (like, for example, cash or gold), which are designed for purchases, sales and other financial transactions ", and " DLT and other new technologies have the potential to improve capital markets and the financial services industry . "

  • February 26, 2018 - Bitcoin Core version 0.16.0 was released.

  • April 2018 - the publishing house Wiley published a book Seyfedina Ammusa ( Saifedean Ammous ) of The the Bitcoin of Standard .

  • May 15, 2018 - The Bitcoin Cash network protocol was updated to increase the block size to 32 MB .

  • October 3, 2018 - Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0 was released.

  • October 2018 - Sergey Bazanov 's book "Bitcoin for All" was published - popularly about the first distributed peer-to-peer monetary system . :)

  • October 31, 2018 - 10 years of publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's report Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System . Bitcoin price holds above $ 6,000 with low volatility.

  • November 15, 2018 - Bitcoin 's market capitalization fell below $ 100 billion for the first time since October 2017, while Bitcoin's price dropped to $ 5,500 .

  • November 15, 2018 - As a result of the planned fork, the Bitcoin Cash blockchain split into two branches - BCHABC ( Bitcoin ABC ) and BCHSV ( Bitcoin SV ).

  • November 26, 2018 - Bitcoin price drops below $ 4,000.

  • December 15, 2018 - Bitcoin set an annual low of $ 3191 .

  • December 18, 2018 - the second satellite of the Blockstream Satellite project was launched into orbit , which made it possible to expand the coverage of satellite services to the Asia-Pacific region.

  • December 25, 2018 - Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 was released.

2019

  • April 6, 2019 - Bitcoin price crossed the $ 5,000 level and never dropped below this value.

  • May 2, 2019 - Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0 was released.

  • May 13, 2019 - Microsoft announced a decentralized identification ( DID ) system called ION ( Identity Overlay Network ) that runs on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.

  • June 21, 2019 - Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering ( of FATF ) introduced Guidelines for risk-based approach to virtual assets and providers of virtual asset services ( Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to the Virtual the Assets and the Virtual Asset the Service Providers ), which ordered kriptovalyutnye exchanges and other providers of services kriptovalyutnyh ( VASP - virtual service, asset providers to ) follow the procedures AML / CFT eligible ( of anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing can of - countering the financing of terrorism), by analogy with traditional financial companies.

  • June 22, 2019 - Bitcoin price surpassed $ 10,000 again .

  • July 10, 2019 - Bitcoin price set an annual high of $ 12,615 . Then it began to decline again.

  • August 9, 2019 - Bitcoin Core version 0.18.1 was released.

  • August 18, 2019 - mining difficulty ( difficulty ) exceeded 10,000,000,000,000 ( 10 trillion ) for the first time .

  • September 6, 2019 - a transaction worth more than $ 1 billion was made on the Bitcoin network . More than 94,504 BTC were moved , equivalent to $ 1,018,147,900 at the time.

  • September 18, 2019 - Bitcoin mining network speed exceeded 100 exahashes / sec . (100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hash / sec).

  • September 23, 2019 - Bakkt cryptocurrency platform has confirmed the start of trading in bitcoin futures on the own market of the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, the Intercontinental Exchange ( ICE ).

  • October 14, 2019 - the second largest transaction in the history of the Bitcoin network. More than 112,027 BTC were moved , equivalent to approximately $ 940.86 million at the time. The transaction fee was 0.00046743 BTC or about $ 3.9 .

  • November 24, 2019 - Bitcoin Core version 0.19.0 was released .

  • November 29, 2019 - The German parliament passed a law allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies from January 1, 2020 . To do this, you need to obtain a special license.

  • December 9, 2019 - Bitcoin settlement futures and options are traded on the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform .

2020

  • January 19, 2020 - Schnorr and Taproot soft forks aimed at increasing network scalability and user privacy are formalized as BIP-340 , BIP-341 and BIP-342 Bitcoin Improvement Proposals .

  • February 2, 2020 - in Twitter added Emoji "Bitcoin" - Bitcoin symbol appears in tweets with hashtags set #Bitcoin and #BTC .

  • February 3, 2020 - head of the exchange derivatives kriptovalyutnyh BitMEX Arthur Hayes ( of Arthur Hayes ) said that the volume of futures trading on Bitcoin since the beginning of the exchange in 2016 exceeded $ 2 trillion .

  • February 9, 2020 - once again the price of bitcoin has exceeded the psychological mark of $ 10,000 .

  • February 13, 2020 - Self-proclaimed "Bitcoin creator" Craig Wright announced that he would fight for his intellectual property rights in courts and demanded that the BTC and BCH networks stop using the Bitcoin registry.

  • March 16, 2020 - the magazine Fortune included Bitcoin in the list of 100 greatest living projects ( of The Greatest designs of modern Times ) under №90.

  • March 27, 2020 - for the purpose of resistance to censorship site releases versions of Bitcoin Core is now available as a hidden service of the Tor ( the Tor hidden service, ) to an alternative address: http://6hasakffvppilxgehrswmffqurlcjjjhd76jgvaqmsg6ul25s7t3rzyd.onion/ , which does not depend on the CA nor from infrastructure DNS.

  • On May 11, 2020 - the third halving of bitcoin - after the generation of 630,000 blocks, the reward for miners decreased from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC.

  • June 3, 2020 - Bitcoin Core version 0.20.0 was released .

  • June 10, 2020 - Microsoft announced the launch of a beta version of the ION (Identity Overlay Network) Decentralized Identifier (DID ) system based on the Bitcoin mainnet .

Functional diagram of the ION topology.

  • October 21, 2020 - Electronic payment system PayPal announced the launch of the function of buying, selling and storing bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin.

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  • December 26, 2020 - Bitcoin price in cryptocurrency markets exceeded $ 25,000 for the first time according to CoinMarketCap .

Bullish rally

2021

  • January 2, 2021 - Bitcoin price in cryptocurrency markets exceeded $ 30,000 for the first time according to CoinMarketCap .

  • January 7, 2021 - the total cryptocurrency market capitalization exceeded $ 1 trillion for the first time . At the same time, the price of bitcoin exceeded $ 40,000 , and its capitalization exceeded $ 700 billion . At the same time, the bitcoin dominance index came close to 70% .

  • January 2021 - Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System is published for the first time on a state domain . This is done on the site E-resident.gov.ee Government of Estonia .

  • January 2021 - Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, purchases $ 1.5 billion of bitcoins . This became known from the company 's annual report published on February 8, 2021 on the SEC website . The document also says that Tesla plans to integrate bitcoin in the future as a means of payment for products.

  • January 16, 2021 - Bitcoin price exceeded $ 50,000 . In trading on the Binance exchange, Bitcoin briefly reached the level of $ 50,640 .

  • February 19, 2021 - Bitcoin capitalization exceeded $ 1 trillion for the first time and at a daily peak was $ 1,041,380,696,669 (according to CoinMarketCap ). At the same time, the price of bitcoin exceeded $ 55,000 .

  • February 21, 2021 - the cost of 1 bitcoin for the first time exceeded the cost of 1 kg of bank gold ( $ 57,427 ).

  • February 24, 2021 - Founded in 1844, the private Swiss bank Bordier & Cie announced that its clients will be able to buy, store and trade digital assets such as BTC, ETH, BCH and XTZ.

  • March 1, 2021 - the "Cryptocurrencies" tab has been created in the Google Finance financial service, which displays the rates of BTC , ETH, LTC and BCH.

  • March 13, 2021 - Bitcoin price exceeded $ 60,000 .


PS

The chronology is constantly being supplemented and updated.

Applications:

Bitcoin price chart in logarithmic scale

Bitcoin price chart on a logarithmic scale .
Bitcoin price chart on a logarithmic scale .

Bitcoin difficulty plot on a logarithmic scale

Bitcoin difficulty plot on a logarithmic scale .

Bitcoin transaction volume

The volume of transactions in the Bitcoin network ($ billion)

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