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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.
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%.
Bitcoin Core 0.18.1 Released
Crypto Bitcoin Now the World’s Eleventh Largest Money Supply
- The 27th Largest ‘Company’
- $207 billion market cap
85% of all Bitcoins are mined
1st Presidential Election with Bitcoin donations
Andrew Yang Super PAC Will Accept Lightning-Powered Bitcoin Donations for US Presidential elections 2020.
Liquid network by Blockstream
The Liquid blockchain went live with the first block generated on September 27, 2018 at 1:29 UTC
Google banned cryptocurrency advertising
Twitter banned cryptocurrency advertising with some exceptions
Lightning Network Release Date
Initial release of beta version for developers, announced by Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark
Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertising
South Korea required all crypto traders to reveal their personal information
16 800 000 BTC were produced.
Only 20% Left.
Cryptomarketcap removed prices from South Korea
Bitcoin reached a record high of almost $20,000 per 1 coin
Bitcoin Fork: Lightning Bitcoin / LBTC
Block #499999
Bitcoin Fork: Super Bitcoin / SBTC
Block #498888
Bitcoin Fork: BitcoinX / BCX
Block #498888
Bitcoin Futures launched by Cboe Global Markets
Bitcoin price hit $10,000 per 1 coin
The Bitcoin price hit $10,000 for 1st time
Bitcoin Fork: Bitcoin Diamond / BCD
Block # 495866
Bitcoin Fork: Bitcoin Gold / BTG
Block # 491407
Bitcoin price hit $5000 per 1 coin
Bitcoin Cash hard fork
Bitcoin price hit $3000 per 1 coin
Japan passed a law to accept Bitcoin as a legal payment method
The bitcoin-related projects on GitHub exceeded 10,000
Bitcoin integration with Bank accounts
by the largest online bank in Norway - Skandiabanken
1st ticket machines with option to buy bitcoin
by The Swiss railway operator SBB (CFF)
Uber started accepting Bitcoin in Argentina
Steam started accepting Bitcoin
The Cabinet of Japan recognized Bitcoin as equal to real money
The Bitcoin network exceeded 1 exahash/sec
The Unicode Committee adopted the bitcoin currency symbol
The EU court of justice removed VAT from Bitcoin and digital currency orders
Over 160,000 merchants accept Bitcoin
1st introduction of the Bitcoin Unicode symbol in the Unicode Consortium
US regulation for digital currency business
by the New York state Department of financial services
Microsoft Store started accepting Bitcoin
for Xbox games and Windows software
1st OTC swap product based on the Bitcoin price
Approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission "CFTC"
Newegg and Dell started accepting bitcoin
St.Petersburg Bowl was renamed to Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
in sponsorship with BitPay
The Bitcoin network exceeded 100 petahash/sec
The Chicago Sun-Times started accepting Bitcoin for subscriptions
The network rate exceeded to 10 petahash/sec
Overstock and TigerDirect started accepting Bitcoin
1st Bitcoin safe storage
Based in London
China banned all cryptocurrencies
1st time the Bitcoin price surpasses $1000 USD
Zynga announced support of Bitcoin
1st Bitcoin ATM
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Bitcoin price hit 100 USD per 1 coin
Bitcoin market cap surpassed $1 Billion USD
The 8th version of Bitcoin Client
1st EU regulated Bitcoin exchange
Launched in France
Wordpress had started accepting bitcoin
The Bitcoin Foundation was launched
Biggest block with 1,322 transactions
1st crypto conference in Europe
1st Bitcoin conference in New York City
1st Bitcoin mobile app for iOS
Bitcoin price hit 10 USD
1st Bitcoin option agreement is signed
25% of all Bitcoins were mined
Block #105000
1st block generated by a mining pool
1st time the Bitcoin capital market reaches $1,000,000 USD
1st Bitcoin deposit
1st Bitcoin public miner
Open CL
1st Bitcoin bug fixed
'dirty' transaction in block #74638
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
1st Bitcoin exchange
1st Bitcoin exchange rate
1 USD - 1,309.03 BTC
1st Bitcoin Transaction (of 10 Bitcoins)
from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney (Block #170)
1st block mined (the genesis block)
with 50 bitcoins reward
1st appearance of the Bitcoin white paper
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Bitcoin.org domain was registered officially
The need of reliable e-Cash
Mentioned in an interview with Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist