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2020 May 19
Bitcoin Halving 2020
The coin reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 coins. The Bitcoin block mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks.
2019 Oct 25
China's president Xi Jinping announced country's next economic goals including blockchain
He stressed that the country should commit to accelerating the development of blockchain and aim at taking the leading position in the emerging technology.
It drove a huge price jump of Bitcoin with 40%.
Price:
€ 6,702
2019 Aug 9
Bitcoin Core 0.18.1 Released
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2019 Aug 7
Crypto Bitcoin Now the World’s Eleventh Largest Money Supply
- The 27th Largest ‘Company’
- $207 billion market cap
Price:
€10,392.84
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2019 Aug 1
85% of all Bitcoins are mined
2019 Jul 29
2019 Jul 25
1st Presidential Election with Bitcoin donations
Andrew Yang Super PAC Will Accept Lightning-Powered Bitcoin Donations for US Presidential elections 2020.
2018 Oct 10
Liquid network by Blockstream
The Liquid blockchain went live with the first block generated on September 27, 2018 at 1:29 UTC
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2018 Jun 1
Twitter banned cryptocurrency advertising with some exceptions
2018 Jun 1
Google banned cryptocurrency advertising
2018 Mar 15
Lightning Network Release Date
Initial release of beta version for developers, announced by Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark
Price:
$ 8,243.54
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2018 Jan 30
Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertising
2018 Jan 22
South Korea required all crypto traders to reveal their personal information
2018 Jan 13
16 800 000 BTC were produced.
Only 20% Left.
2018 Jan 8
Cryptomarketcap removed prices from South Korea
2017 Dec 18
Bitcoin reached a record high of almost $20,000 per 1 coin
2017 Dec 17
Bitcoin Fork: Lightning Bitcoin / LBTC
Block #499999
2017 Dec 12
Bitcoin Fork: Super Bitcoin / SBTC
Block #498888
2017 Dec 12
Bitcoin Fork: BitcoinX / BCX
Block #498888
2017 Dec 11
Bitcoin Futures launched by Cboe Global Markets
2017 Nov 29
Bitcoin price hit $10,000 per 1 coin
2017 Nov 29
The Bitcoin price hit $10,000 for 1st time
2017 Nov 24
Bitcoin Fork: Bitcoin Diamond / BCD
Block # 495866
2017 Oct 10
Bitcoin Fork: Bitcoin Gold / BTG
Block # 491407
2017 Sep 1
Bitcoin price hit $5000 per 1 coin
2017 Aug 1
Bitcoin Cash hard fork
2017 Jun 12
Bitcoin price hit $3000 per 1 coin
2017 Apr 10
Japan passed a law to accept Bitcoin as a legal payment method
2017 Mar 1
The bitcoin-related projects on GitHub exceeded 10,000
2017 Jan 20
Bitcoin integration with Bank accounts
by the largest online bank in Norway - Skandiabanken
2016 Nov 20
1st ticket machines with option to buy bitcoin
by The Swiss railway operator SBB (CFF)
2016 Jul 1
Uber started accepting Bitcoin in Argentina
2016 Apr 1
Steam started accepting Bitcoin
2016 Mar 8
The Cabinet of Japan recognized Bitcoin as equal to real money
2016 Jan 10
The Bitcoin network exceeded 1 exahash/sec
2015 Nov 11
The Unicode Committee adopted the bitcoin currency symbol
2015 Oct 10
The EU court of justice removed VAT from Bitcoin and digital currency orders
2015 Aug 1
Over 160,000 merchants accept Bitcoin
2015 Jul 25
1st introduction of the Bitcoin Unicode symbol in the Unicode Consortium
2015 Jun 1
US regulation for digital currency business
by the New York state Department of financial services
2014 Dec 1
Microsoft Store started accepting Bitcoin
for Xbox games and Windows software
2014 Sep 10
1st OTC swap product based on the Bitcoin price
Approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission "CFTC"
2014 Jul 5
Newegg and Dell started accepting bitcoin
2014 Jun 18
St.Petersburg Bowl was renamed to Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
in sponsorship with BitPay
2014 Jun 3
The Bitcoin network exceeded 100 petahash/sec
2014 Feb 1
The Chicago Sun-Times started accepting Bitcoin for subscriptions
2014 Jan 20
The network rate exceeded to 10 petahash/sec
2014 Jan 15
Overstock and TigerDirect started accepting Bitcoin
2014 Jan 10
1st Bitcoin safe storage
Based in London
2013 Dec 10
China banned all cryptocurrencies
2013 Nov 30
1st time the Bitcoin price surpasses $1000 USD
2013 Nov 10
Zynga announced support of Bitcoin
2013 Oct 29
1st Bitcoin ATM
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2013 Apr 1
Bitcoin price hit 100 USD per 1 coin
2013 Mar 28
Bitcoin market cap surpassed $1 Billion USD
2013 Feb 19
The 8th version of Bitcoin Client
2012 Dec 6
1st EU regulated Bitcoin exchange
Launched in France
2012 Nov 20
Wordpress had started accepting bitcoin
2012 Sep 27
The Bitcoin Foundation was launched
2012 Jun 3
Biggest block with 1,322 transactions
2011 Nov 25
1st crypto conference in Europe
2011 Aug 20
1st Bitcoin conference in New York City
2011 Jul 22
1st Bitcoin mobile app for iOS
2011 Jun 12
Bitcoin price hit 10 USD
2011 Apr 12
1st Bitcoin option agreement is signed
2011 Jan 28
25% of all Bitcoins were mined
Block #105000
2010 Dec 16
1st block generated by a mining pool
2010 Nov 6
1st time the Bitcoin capital market reaches $1,000,000 USD
2010 Oct 16
1st Bitcoin deposit
2010 Oct 1
1st Bitcoin public miner
Open CL
2010 Aug 15
1st Bitcoin bug fixed
'dirty' transaction in block #74638
2010 May 22
1st Bitcoin purchase by Laszlo Hanyecz
Papa John's pizza for 10,000 coins. This day is also known as the World Bitcoin Pizza Day
2010 Feb 6
1st Bitcoin exchange
2009 Oct 5
1st Bitcoin exchange rate
1 USD - 1,309.03 BTC
2009 Jan 12
1st Bitcoin Transaction (of 10 Bitcoins)
from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney (Block #170)
2009 Jan 4
1st block mined (the genesis block)
with 50 bitcoins reward
2009 Jan 3
2008 Oct 31
1st appearance of the Bitcoin white paper
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
2008 Aug 8
Bitcoin.org domain was registered officially
1999 Jul 1
The need of reliable e-Cash
Mentioned in an interview with Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist
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1984 May 1