Bitcoin project milestones

Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.

Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered According to theymos: bitcoin.org was originally owned by Satoshi. He registered it through https://www.anonymousspeech.com

Bitcoin design paper published Satoshi Nakamoto publishes his paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net

Genesis block established at 18:15:05 GMT The first block!

Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the cryptography mailing list First alpha release of the Bitcoin client.

First Bitcoin transaction First Bitcoin transaction, in block 170 - from Satoshi to Hal Finney https://blockchain.info/block/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee

Exchange rates published by New Liberty Standard. $1 = 1,309.03 BTC (and theymos thought NLS was overcharging)

#bitcoin-dev channel registered on freenode IRC

Bitcoin v0.2 released

First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT

Bitcoin Market established The Bitcoin Market is a former bitcoin currency exchange site owned and operated by dwdollar

laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos

Bitcoin v0.3 released

Bitcoin v0.3 release mentioned on slashdot bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users

Beginning of 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC

MtGox established MtGox, called "Mount Gox" or "MTGOX", has been the most widely used bitcoin currency exchange market[1] since it was started, and remains the largest in terms of popularity and volume.

ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm

Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later

Generating Bitcoins with your video card (OpenCL/CUDA) jgarzik offered 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client

Block 79,764 is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward

CUDA Client released puddinpop released source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license

microtransactions exploit discovered. kermit discovered a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release

First public OpenCL miner released

Bitcoin Wiki History page created Original Bitcoin History wiki page established on Bitcoin.org's wiki.

Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months. Enter story info here

First recorded escrowed bitcoin trade conducted, between nanotube and Diablo-D3, escrowed by theymos.

#bitcoin-otc trading channel established on freenode IRC. The Bitcoin-OTC project is a marketplace for people to conduct over-the-counter trading in bitcoin. It is located in various IRC channels on the freenode IRC network.

First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to kiba, facilitated by the #bitcoin-otc market.

The Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.

Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.

The generation difficulty passed 10,000. First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to sgornick, via the #bitcoin-otc market

Bitcoin Pooled Mining, operated by slush, found its first block

Tonal Bitcoin units standardized Tonal Bitcoin is a representation of the Bitcoin network aimed toward providing a use-case for adoption of Bitcoin to people who prefer the Tonal number system.

Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s

Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on #bitcoin-otc at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes.

Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.

Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at MtGox.

Bitcoin reaches dollar parity Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle traffic resulting from mentions on Slashdot, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity

First car offered for sale in exchange for Bitcoin A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins

Bitcoin network computation speed reaches 900 Ghash/sec Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network

BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.

Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.

Britcoin opens The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, Britcoin, opens.

Bitcoin Brazil opens. The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, Bitcoin Brazil, opens.

BitMarket.eu opens The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, BitMarket.eu, opens.

First bitcoin put option contract sold via the #bitcoin-otc market.

TIME does an article on Bitcoin.

BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on MtGox exchange. BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on MtGox exchange. Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.

VirWoX opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.