History of Bitcoin 2009

 

3 January 2009 The Genesis Block was mined
Block 0, the genesis block,was established at 18:15:05 GMT.
It contained the text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," perhaps as proof that the block was mined on or after that date, and perhaps also as relevant political commentary. 64 miners mined a significant proportion of the BTC created from Jan. 3, 2009, to Feb. 9 2011, the day BTCs price climbed to USD 1

9 January 2009 Bitcoin Version 0.1 was released, it was made with Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows, there was lack of a command line interface and maybe it was developed by more than one person (or by an academic with little programming experience and a great deal of theoretical know-how). It included a Bitcoin generation system that would create a total of 21 million Bitcoins through the year 2040.

11 January 2009 Bitcoin Version 0.1.2 was released 22:32,Hal Finney tweeted "Running Bitcoin"

12 January 2009 Bitcoin Version 0.1.3  was released 22:48

12 January 2009 The first Bitcoin transaction ever the first transaction of Bitcoin currency, in block 170, took place between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney.

21 January 2009 Hal Finney tweeted "Looking at ways to add more anonymity to bitcoin"

4 February 2009 Bitcoin Version 0.15 was released 19:46

18 April 2009 second Satoshi transaction moving a mining reward is from Satoshi Nakamoto.
to Mike Hearn Mike Hearn in Block 11408 , moving coin mined in Block 5326 on February 23, 2009. Satoshi emailed Mike Hearn, that if Hearn sent 32.51 BTC to Satoshi Nakamoto,Mike Hearn would receive 32.51 BTC+50 BTC. Nakamoto wrote to Hearn "The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide,Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost."

May 2019 Martti "Sirius" Malmi contacted Satoshi Nakamoto to help with Btc project.

12 August 2009 Martti "Sirius" Malmi  sold 5050 btc for 5.02 usd

5 October 2009 A Bitcoin exchange rate was established  by New Liberty Standard  the value of a Bitcoin at USD 1 = 1,309.03 BTC, using an equation that includes the cost of electricity to run a computer that generated Bitcoins.

12 October 2009 The #bitcoin-dev channel was registered on freenode IRC, a discussion network for free and open source development communities.

22 November 2009 Bitcoin talk began. Hosting was sponsored by Martti Malmi.
First 25 members were admin,Sirius(Martti Malmi),nandor,Xunie,madhatter,nanaimogold, themadhatter, SmokeTooMuch,Madhatter,Xu04k04c6ng,The Doctor,AgoraMutual,Roger Rabbit,1currency now,dwdollar,New Liberty Standard,rIX,Sabunir,giik,BitcoinFX,
Suggester,livingsoulnation,m0mChill,BlueSky,theymos and nphyx.

16 December 2009 Version 0.2 of Bitcoin was released. 06:52

30 December 2009 The first difficulty increased occurred at 06:11:04 GM