##BITCOIN IN 2009

##BITCOIN IN 2010

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##Bitcoin in 2011

• [x]Based on bitcoin's open source code, other cryptocurrencies started to emerge.

January 27th

Biggest monetary transaction in bitcoin history from 3 accounts in Zimbabwe on #bitcoin-otc. The currency value was 4 BTC to 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

February 9th

Bitcoin reaches parity with the US dollar (the exchange rate was one BTC to the USD).

February 14th

An Austrian user puts an old Porsche on sale on a bitcoin exchange for 3000 BTC.

June

Wikileaks and other organizations began to accept bitcoins for donations.

June 13th

The first theft occurs in the history of bitcoin. User allinvain reports 25 thousand coins (375 thousand USD).

July 22nd

BitCoins Mobile, the first mobile app for iPad, is launched.

August 20th

First Bitcoin conference at the World Expo exhibition in New York City.

September

Vitalik Buterin co-founded Bitcoin Magazine.

December 12th

The biggest amount of fees paid for a block up to date: 171 BTC for block # 157235.

##Bitcoin in 2012

• [x]In January 2012, bitcoin was featured as the main subject within a fictionalized trial on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife in the third-season episode "Bitcoin for Dummies". The host of CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer, played himself in a courtroom scene where he testifies that he doesn't consider bitcoin a true currency, saying "There's no central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions completely peer to peer".

March 1st

About 50000 BTC is stolen after a security upgrade in Linode; it is the biggest bitcoin theft ever.

June 3rd

The biggest block in the chain, # 181919 is created. It includes 1,322 transactions.

October

BitPay reported having over 1,000 merchants accepting bitcoin under its payment processing service.

November

WordPress had started accepting bitcoins.

November 28th

Block # 210,000 becomes the first block to yield a 25 BTC reward (all previous existing block rewards had been 50 BTC).

##Bitcoin in 2013

January 22nd

BitPay surpasses 10,000 transactions

February 19th

The 8th version of Bitcoin Client appears.

February 28th

Bitcoin exchange rate surpasses 31.91 USD for the first time for the last 601 days.

March 28th

Bitcoin capitalization surpasses 1 billion USD

April 1st

Exchange rate of Bitcoin reaches 100 USD to 1 BTC.

October

The FBI seized roughly 26,000 BTC from website Silk Road during the arrest of alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht.

November

The first time in the history, Bitcoin costs over 1000 USD after BTC is supported by American game creator Zynga.

December 5th

The People's Bank of China prohibited Chinese financial institutions from using bitcoins. After the announcement, the Bitcoin value dropped, and Baidu no longer accepted bitcoins for certain services. Buying real-world goods with any virtual currency has been illegal in China since at least 2009.

December 9th

100 USD are stolen from bitcoin wallets.

December

China banned the use of cryptocurrency in the country. One of the largest exchanges in the world BTC China was closed. Behind China, Norway did not recognize bitcoins.

Bitcoin in 2014

• A documentary film, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, was released in 2014, featuring interviews with bitcoin users, such as a computer programmer and a drug dealer.

January

Elliptic Vault, the first bitcoin safe storage, opens in London. Bitcoin begins to oust euro in Ireland. More companies agree to accept bitcoin a payment for services. Zynga announced it was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets in seven of its games. That same month, The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino properties in downtown Las Vegas announced they would also begin accepting bitcoin, according to an article by USA Today. The article also stated the currency would be accepted in five locations, including the front desk and certain restaurants. The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec. TigerDirect and Overstock.com started accepting bitcoin.

January 28th

Vice-president of the Bitcoin Foundation arrested under money laundering charges. As a result of the ensuing panic, bitcoin exchange rate decreased by 40 USD.

June 18th

It was announced that bitcoin payment service provider BitPay would become the new sponsor of St.Petersburg Bowl under a two-year deal, renamed the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. Bitcoin was to be accepted for ticket and concession sales at the game as part of the sponsorship, and the sponsorship itself was also paid for using bitcoin.

December

Microsoft began to accept bitcoin to buy Xbox games and Windows software.
In 2014, several lighthearted songs celebrating bitcoin such as the Ode to Satoshi have been released.

##Bitcoin in 2015

February

Bitcoin price reached $262.

July

Former Federal agents Carl Force IV (DEA) and Shaun Bridges (Secret Service) pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoins during their active investigation into the Silk Road market.

December

Security researcher and writer, Gvern Branwen, published an article in WIRED magazine claiming that an Australian man named Dr. Craig S. Wright was either Satoshi Nakamoto or a "brilliant hoaxer." Gvern brought a few deleted messages in the blog of Wright, leaked emails and transcripts, which seemed to imply that Wright is the creator of Bitcoin. In one missed decryption, Wright himself States,"I did my best to try to hide the fact that I've been working with bitcoin since 2009." In another document, it is told that Wright had access to Vidoescom trust 1.1 million bitcoins.

##Bitcoin in 2016

January

Network speed exceeds 1 exahash/sec

April

The Steam service starts accepting bitcoin as payment for video games and other online media.

May

Wright publicly announced that he was Satoshi Nakamoto through a blog post.

July

Researchers published a paper showing that by November 2013 bitcoin commerce was no longer driven by "sin" activities but instead by legitimate enterprises. Uber switched to bitcoin in Argentina after the government blocked credit card companies from dealing with Uber.

August

Hackers attack Bitfinex, a large exchange, taking almost 120 000 bitcoins (about $60 million USD).

September

The number of bitcoin ATMs had doubled over the last 18 months and reached 771 ATMs worldwide.

November

The Swiss railway operator SBB (CFF) upgraded all their automated ticket machines so that bitcoin could be bought from them using the scanner on the ticket machine to scan the bitcoin address on a phone app.

The history and future of Bitcoin generate more academic interest year after year; the number of Google Scholar articles published mentioning bitcoin grew from 83 in 2009, to 424 in 2012, and to 3580 in 2016. Also, the academic Ledger Journal published its first issue. It is edited by Peter Rizun.

Bitcoin in 2017

Throughout time, the number of businesses accepting bitcoin continues to increase.
Since the start of history, by 2017 Bitcoin gains more legitimacy among lawmakers and legacy financial companies.

January.

After the rally for most of the second half of 2016, bitcoin broke the $ 1,000 mark for the first time in 3 years. Media coverage leads to an influx of new users who will allegedly raise the price even higher.

June

The Bitcoin symbol was encoded in Unicode version 10.0 at position U+20BF (₿) in the Currency Symbols block.

June 12th

Bitcoin exchange rate exceeds USD$3000 to the BTC.

August 1st

Bitcoin split into two derivative digital currencies, the classic bitcoin (BTC) and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH). The split has been called the Bitcoin Cash hard fork.

September 1st

Bitcoin exchange rate exceeds USD$5000.

October

China forbids cryptocurrencies and ICOs.

November 29th

In 2017 Bitcoin price exceeds USD 10,000.

December 28th

The price of bitcoins fell after South Korea announced additional measures to regulate bitcoin trading, including the potential closure of exchanges, among the volatile movements in the world's third-largest cryptocurrency market.

What is interesting, the Bitcoin price was less than $3000 at the beginning of 2017, later it cost about 5000 of dollars, by the end of the year the Bitcoin worth USD 10000.

##Bitcoin in 2018

2018 has been a rough year for Bitcoin and it's users, especially people who held on assuming the price would keep ascending. Many sold the cryptocurrency while they could, and the price has been steadily dropping all year. As of this writing, Bitcoin's price was at $3,732.04.

January 2nd

Peter Thiel Foundation bought millions of dollars in bitcoin, the Wall Street Journal reports citing sources familiar with the situation. The paper says these stocks are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It is unclear whether the Founders sold any of their stocks, the report said.

#January 13th
Out of a total of 21 million people, on January 13, 2018, 16 800 000 BTC were produced, and only 20% remained for production.

January 30th

Facebook banned people from fully advertising bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

February 5th

Bitcoin's price dropped 50 percent in 16 days, falling below $7,000.

March 7th

The U.S. securities and exchange Commission confirmed that many online trading platforms for digital assets should be registered with the Agency as exchanges. Statement the SEC has heightened concerns about the fact that the regulation tightening might restrict trade.

March 14th

Google announced that it prohibits online advertising promoting cryptocurrency

March 26th

Twitter announced that it would ban advertising for cryptocurrencies, after overclocking Google and Facebook, which aims to protect investors from fraud.

April 13th
One of India's largest cryptocurrency trading platforms lost about 438 bitcoins worth about 190 million rupees ($3 million), presumably due to an employee.

May 24th
The Justice Department opened a criminal case about whether traders manipulate the price of bitcoins and other digital currencies. The investigation focuses on illegal activities that can affect prices such as spoofing or flooding the market with fake orders to trick other traders into buying or selling.

October 31st
$6,300, on the 10 year anniversary of Bitcoin, price holds steady above $6,000 during a period of historically low volatility.

November 14th
Falling below $6000.

Bitcoin in 2019

From the beginning of the year, the capitalization of the digital money market increased by 32% - in 2019 it amounts to $ 165 billion.