The Most Important Events In The Bitcoin History

The Most Important Events In The Bitcoin History

August 2008 — Domain Bitcoin.org is registered anonymously

18 August 2008: The official Bitcoin website Bitcoin.org was registered by an anonymous person. The registration is protected by well-known privacy-protection service WhoisGuard and it is still unclear if Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or a group of people.

November 2008 — The Bitcoin Whitepaper is published

January 2009 — Mining of the first block


And Satoshi Nakamoto sends a message with first block: ''Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.''

January 2009 — First transaction

The first transaction in block 170 is sent from Satoshi to Hal Finney, a cryptographic enthusiast.

October 2009 — First Bitcoin / US-Dollar exchange rate

In October 2009 the first ever BTC/USD exchange rate was published at US$1 = 1,309.03 BTC,means 1 BTC for 0,00076 USD.

May 2010–One Pizza for 10.000 BTC

In May 18,2010: On the bitcointalk.org forum,the user named ''laszlo'' pays 10.000 BTC for pizza.

Original post on bitcointalk.org : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

December 2013–The word ''HODL'' is born

User ''GameKyuubi'' blows off steem on the Bitcointalk forum because he doesn’t get the market timing right for buying/selling coins and making a profit. He subsequently concludes to ''HODL'' (for hold) his coins in the future to not fall victims to the votalitly of Bitcoin.

Original post on bitcointalk.org : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

February 2014–MtGox looses 750.000 BTC

In a spectacular crash, Bitcoin exchange MtGox manages to loose 750.000 BTC , equivalent USD amount in November 2017: $6 Billion USD.