bitcoin

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

On January 5, 1979, Ralph Merkle was granted a patent for the invention of 'Merkle Trees,' a fundamental component in blockchain technology.

On January 8, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin v0.1, the first implementation of the Bitcoin software, via a mailing list for cryptographers.

On 19 February 2021, Bitcoin broke the one trillion US dollar mark in market capitalization for the first time. BTC was trading at around USD 53,600 at the time.

On February 24, 2010, the first known commercial Bitcoin transaction occurred, marking a key milestone in Bitcoin's history. Already on January 24, 2010, a few months before Laszlo Hanyecz's famous Bitcoin pizza, the user "Sabunir" posted a request on the bitcointalk forum asking if anyone would like to purchase a picture he created for 500...

On July 9, 2016, the second Bitcoin halving took place, halving the block subsidy from 25 to 12.5 BTC.

Date: August 1, 2017 August 1, 2017 saw the culmination of the Blocksize Wars. Bitcoin Cash split off as a hard fork with the industry and well-known people behind it in order to be able to scale using larger blocks in the main network. But people opted for Bitcoin as it is today to ensure...

Date: August 10, 2020 On August 10, 2020, the US software company MicroStrategy announced its decision to adopt Bitcoin as a primary treasury reserve asset. Founded by Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy became the first publicly traded company to invest in Bitcoin, marking a significant milestone in corporate adoption of the cryptocurrency.

Date: August 18, 2008 On August 18, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto registered the domain bitcoin.org.

Date: August 20, 2011 On August 20, 2011, the first Bitcoin conference took place in New York.