October 31, 2022: SEC Chair Gensler Wishes Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Whitepaper Happy Birthday. (bitcoin.com)
October 25, 2022: 40 million cash app users can now send and receive bitcoin lightning payments (bitcoinmagazine.com)
October 25, 2022: The Crypto Story – Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters Matt Levine. (Bloomberg.com)
October 19, 2022: Elon Musk’s Tesla Still HODLing $218M in Bitcoin
September 27, 2022: Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M (coindesk.com)
September 6, 2022: Bitcoin Dips Below $19K, Hitting Lowest Point in Two Months (coindesk.com)
June 10, 2022: Jack Dorsey is building ‘Web5’ powered by Bitcoin (cointelegraph.com)
May 9, 2022: Bitcoin Plunges Below $30,000, Its Lowest Level Since July 2021… (time.com)
April 27, 2022: Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (bbc.com)
April 11, 2022: Tesla, Block and Blockstream to mine bitcoin off solar power in Texas (reuters.com)
April 7, 2022: Jack Mallers’ Strike Announces Shopify Integration for Bitcoin Lightning Payments (coindesk.com)
November 29, 2021: Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, resigned his position to commit his time to Block (formerly, Square) and Bitcoin.
November 10, 2021: 1 bitcoin reached an all-time high (ATH), $68,990.90 USD. Bitcoin’s Price History (investopedia.com)
September 7, 2021: El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. Bitcoin Is Legal Tender in El Salvador, Here’s How It’s Going (howtogeek.com)
February 8, 2021: Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (cnbc.com)
November 2020: Paypal started offering customers to buy and sell bitcoin on its platform
March 2020: Covid-19 related financial crash
January 2019: Canada’s largest crypto exchange at that time, QuadrigaCX, suddenly closed and customers lost their money. QuadrigaCX Crypto Exchange Users Still Can’t Get Their Money Out
2018: Lightning Labs ran a beta version of its Lightning Network on the Bitcoin mainnet.
Early 2018: Cryptocurrency price crash
December 2017: Cryptocurrency Bubble. Bitcoin reached $19,834.93 on December 17
August 10, 2017: Jack Mallers Announcing Zap: A Lightning Network Wallet
August 1, 2017: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Hard Fork. A new protocol was created from Bitcoin. BCH tried to replace BTC but the attempt did not succeed
2016: Dryja and Poon founded Lightning Labs
2015-2017: The Blocksize War – “A debate about the size of Bitcoin’s blockchain blocks” The Bitcoin Block Size Debate Explained (bitrawr.com)
August 8, 2015: BitLicense came into effect in New York
2015: Lightning network white paper was proposed by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja. What is the Lightning Network in Bitcoin, and how does it work? (cointelegraph.com)
June 11, 2014: Yahoo! and Google Finance added bitcoin price, BTCUSD=X
February 28, 2014: Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchange sites at that time, went bankrupt after losing 650,000 bitcoins due to hacking.
November 28, 2013: 1 BTC reached $1,000 USD
October 02, 2013: The anonymous market place Silk Road site on the Darknet was closed. Bitcoin was used for payment transactions
March 2013: Bitcoin hits record exchange values with Cyprus banking crisis. (cnet.com)
February 09, 2011: 1 BTC reached $1 USD
May 22, 2010: Bitcoin Pizza Day – the first bitcoin transaction was made! A guy named Laszlo Hanyecz @HanyeczLaszlo paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0
October 05, 2009: The first valuation of bitcoin – 1 bitcoin (BTC) was priced $0.001 USD
January 12, 2009: The first bitcoin transaction was made between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. They transferred 10 bitcoins
January 03, 2009: The birth of Bitcoin – the very first block of Bitcoin, called Genesis Block, was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto
October 31, 2008: Bitcoin white paper – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (PDF), by Satoshi Nakamoto was published on a cryptography mailing list