Protocol & Technical — Bitcoin Historical Events

42 events in this category.

• 1976-11-01 — Diffie-Hellman day
• 1993-03-09 — A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
• 1997-03-28 — Hashcash Invented
• 1998-11-01 — b-money Proposal
• 2004-08-15 — RPOW Launched
• 2008-08-18 — Bitcoin.org Registered
• 2008-08-20 — Satoshi Emails Adam Back For Hashcash Citation
• 2008-10-31 — Bitcoin Whitepaper Day
• 2008-12-10 — The Bitcoin Mailing List Begins
• 2009-01-03 — Bitcoin's birthday!
• 2009-01-10 — Running Bitcoin Day!
• 2009-01-11 — Genesis Transaction Day
• 2010-07-18 — GPU Mining Begins
• 2010-08-15 — Value Overflow Incident
• 2010-10-07 — #Bitcoin Channel Created on IRC
• 2010-12-16 — First Bitcoin Mining Pool
• 2011-03-06 — Bitcoin Reaches 10,000 Users
• 2011-09-27 — Bitcoin Fog Launches
• 2011-10-07 — Litecoin Launches
• 2013-01-15 — CoinJoin Concept Published
• 2013-03-12 — 24 block rollback
• 2015-08-15 — XT Fork Controversy
• 2016-01-01 — Network Hashrate Exceeds 1 Exahash
• 2016-01-14 — Lightning Whitepaper Day
• 2016-02-21 — Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus
• 2017-05-10 — First Lightning payment on LTC
• 2017-08-01 — Bitcoin Cash Fork
• 2017-08-01 — Bitcoin Independence Day
• 2017-08-08 — SegWit Lock-in Day
• 2017-08-23 — Activation Day
• 2017-08-24 — SegWit Activates on Mainnet
• 2017-09-23 — First On-Chain Atomic Swap
• 2017-11-17 — S2X Failure to Launch Day
• 2018-01-08 — Lightning Pay Day
• 2018-03-14 — Lightning Network Goes Live on Mainnet
• 2021-06-09 — China Mining Ban
• 2021-11-14 — Taproot Activation
• 2021-11-16 — Taproot Goes Live
• 2022-12-15 — Jack Dorsey Funds Nostr
• 2023-01-13 — Ordinals Protocol Launches
• 2023-11-23 — BBQr Protocol
• 2024-05-05 — One Billion Transactions

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