Protocol & Technical — Bitcoin Historical Events

Protocol & Technical — Bitcoin Historical Events42 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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