bitcointimeline

Timeline of important events in Bitcoin.
Tweets in chronological order.
3 tweets/facts a day until we get caught up to current date.

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JULY, 2010
Slashdot attention pushes BTC price to over $0.01 USD for first time.
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JULY 18, 2010
Founding of Mt Gox.
Jed McCaleb reads about #bitcoin on slashdot
(https://t.co/Ktd0kArpPk)and is put off by how difficult it is to acquire some, inspiring him to relaunch his defunct Magic The Gathering Online Xchange(Mt.Gox) as a bitcoin exchange.
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May 18, 2010
Bitcointalk member "laszlo" offers up 10,000 btc for 2 large pizzas.
Post here;(https://t.co/V0zk6DkCzx …)
Four days Later on May 22nd, "laszlo" confirms that user "jercos" successfully sent 2 pizzas(pictured) in exchange for 10,000 btc
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Satoshi shows mixed feelings in email here
(https://t.co/8qoLFSem4x)
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April 2010
Hungarian programmer Laszlo Hanecz is first known person to experiment with GPU mining.
Later buys Pizza with 10,000 GPU mined BTC. Went from on avg winning 1 block/day out of 140 to 1,2/hr
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February 11, 2009
First public forum post of release of #bitcoin software v0.1 on the P2P Foundation website.
(https://t.co/OIlafhakNT …)
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January 12th, 2009
The world's first bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto to Hal Finney (@halfin) for 10 BTC is successful in block#170
(https://t.co/lSaoNlTzOY)
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Running bitcoin

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January 9th, 2009
The first open source bitcoin client was posted on https://t.co/0iapr8fIf1 by Anonymous. (Bitcoin software v0.1)
Link to post here;
(https://t.co/dcYY6p9cYL …)
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Block #0 Details can be seen here (https://t.co/9i5tsK33rR)

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January 3, 2009
Bitcoin network comes into existence with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of bitcoin (block #0), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. Embedded in the coinbase of this block was the text:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

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October 31st, 2008
The bitcoin whitepaper published by Satoshi Nakamoto
https://t.co/znVTYDfIFJ
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August, 2008
https://t.co/74YbLMneUM domain registered. Has been said it was registered through (https://t.co/suSUl1LhLV) to bypass identification
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April 5th 1975
Satoshi Nakamoto's "Birthday"

Profile on the P2P Foundation website had above date for birthdate. P2P Profile here; (https://t.co/TCVP4Cez7Q)
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