bitcoin

On February 9, 2011, Bitcoin reached the equivalent of one US dollar on the Mt. Gox trading platform for the first time.

Date: October 1, 2013 On October 1, 2013, the FBI arrested Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. On the anniversary of the arrest, the freedom community draws attention to the arguably inappropriate sentence for the man behind the free internet marketplace.

Date: October 29, 2013 On October 29, 2013, the world's first Bitcoin ATM was launched in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada.

Date: October 31, 2008 On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the nine-page Bitcoin Whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list metzdowd.com.

Date: November 1, 2010 On November 1, 2010, a user named "bitboy" posted his design for the Bitcoin logo on the bitcointalk forum. His royalty-free logo was met with enthusiasm and became the logo for Satoshi Nakamoto's creation.

Date: November 4, 2010 On 4 November 2010, Bitcoin cracked the market capitalization of one million US dollars for the first time. At the time, one BTC was worth just under 0.40 US dollars.

Date: November 8, 2022 On November 8, 2022, there was a bank run on FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges at the time. It turned out that FTX had been re-lending customer deposits and the exchange filed for bankruptcy shortly afterwards.

Date: November 22, 2009 On November 22, 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto published the welcome post in the bitcointalk forum

Date: November 28, 2012 On November 28, 2012, the first Bitcoin halving took place, which halved the block subsidy from 50 to 25 BTC.

Date: December 5, 2013 On December 5, 2013, the price of 1 BTC equaled the price of one troy ounce (31.1 grams) of gold for the first time.

Date: December 12, 2010 On December 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamotos posted to the bitcointalk forum for the last time. In the days before, Satoshi was worried that if the WikiLeaks revelation platform accepted donations in BTC, state authorities and enemies of freedom would get wind of Bitcoin too soon.   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5299346.0

Date: December 18, 2013 On December 18, 2013, a drop in the price of Bitcoin prompted a member of the bitcointalk forum to write that he would not sell his Bitcoin. The drunk user mistyped and accidentally changed "I AM HOLDING" to "I AM HODLING", which has since become established in the community.