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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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