The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written
BITCOIN CALENDAR OF NOTABLE DAYS
August 18, 2008
~ The domain name
bitcoin.org
was registered.
October 31, 2008
~
Bitcoin Technical Document Day:
"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was published
on metzdowd.com by an anonymous cryptographer named Satoshi
Nakamoto.
January 3, 2009
~
Bitcoin's Birthday:
Satoshi's Genesis block was mined, launching the Bitcoin
network.
January 12, 2009
~
The First Bitcoin Transaction:
Satoshi sent 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney, marking the first
transaction on the Bitcoin network.
October 5, 2009
~
The First Bitcoin Exchange:
The New Liberty Standard (NLS) was launched on a Bitcoin
exchange with a price of 0.00764 USD per Bitcoin.
October 12, 2009
~ "I found the first known Bitcoin-USD transaction in my email
backups. On October 12, 2009, I sold 5.050 bitcoins for $5.02."
- Martti Malmi, the founder of NewLibertyStandard, sold bitcoins
on the first Bitcoin exchange.
May 22, 2010
~
Bitcoin Pizza Day:
Bitcoin was used for the first time to purchase a good or
service, when Lazslo Hanyecz bought two Papa John's pizzas for
10,000 bitcoins.
December 12, 2010
~ This is the date Satoshi last posted on the Bitcoin forum.
February 11, 2011
~ Bitcoin was first traded against the US dollar.
June 14, 2011
~ Wikileaks began accepting Bitcoin donations.
March 3, 2017
~ Bitcoin was first traded against gold.
August 21, 2021
~ First annual
Bitcoin Infinity Day
suggested by Knut Svanholm's meme: Everything divided by 21
million.
