Bitcoin Timeline - 2009 to 2013  

Scott Keisler

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(Note: This timeline focuses on positive developments and milestones. $1 = U.S.)

2008

August 18 - bitcoin.org registered

October 31 - link to white paper published on cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto

2009
January 3 - Genesis Block mines 50 Bitcoin (BTC)
January 9 - first software release, Bitcoin v0.1

January 12 - Satoshi sends Hal Finney 10 BTC

October 5 - first BTC exchange rate published by First Liberty Standard - 1,309.03 BTC = $1

December 16 - second version of software released, Bitcoin v0.2

2010

February 6 - Bitcoin Market, the first BTC exchange, is created

May 22 - Florida man sends 10,000 BTC to London man in exchange for two Papa John’s pizzas (about $25)

Summer - 1 BTC = 1 penny

July 3-12 - BTC price increases by 10 times in 10 days from $0.008 to $0.08

July 17 - Mt. Gox exchange launched (converted from Magic the Gathering Exchange)

October 1 - Open CL, first public miner, is created

November 6 - BTC market capitalization reaches $1 million
December 7 - user doublec creates a Bitcoin app for the Nokia N900

December 16 - Slush becomes first mining pool to generate a block

2011
January 28 - first 25 percent of 21 million BTC has been mined

February 9 - 1 BTC = $1
March 22 - WeUseCoins publishes video What Is Bitcoin? that receives over 8 million views

March 27 - first BTC exchange for British Pound
March 31 - first exchange for Brazilian real

April 5 - BitMarket.eu, first stock to exchange BTC for Polish złoty, opens

April 16 - TIME magazine publishes article about crypto currency

June - Wikileaks begins to accept bitcoin donations

June 2 - 1 BTC = $10

June 8 - new all-time high of $31.91 reached
June 12 - price drops back down to around $10

July 22 - BitCoins Mobile, the first mobile app for iPad, is launched

August 20 - First Bitcoin conference at World Expo exhibition in New York City

August 23 - First decentralized P2Pool mines first block

September - Bitcoin Magazine created
October 11 - Litecoin launches

November 25 - First European cryptocurrency conference takes place in Prague, Czech Republic

2012

April - 1 BTC = $100

September 27 - Bitcoin Foundation created

October - BitPay reported having over 1,000 merchants accepting bitcoin

November - Wordpress begins accepting Bitcoin
December 6 - French exchange Bitcoin-Central becomes first exchange to operate within the framework of European regulations

2013

February - BitPay reports selling $1 million worth of BTC in a single month

February 28 - price surpasses $31.91, new ATH
March 28 - market cap surpasses $1 billion

April 1 - 1 BTC = $100

October 29 - 1st Bitcoin ATM opens in Vancouver, British Columbia

November - 1 BTC = $1000

December - Overstock.com announced plans to accept Bitcoin in the second half of 2014

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