History of Bitcoin 2010

6 February 2010 A currency exchange was born The Bitcoin Market was established by dwdollar as a Bitcoin currency exchange.

18 February 2010 Kin/Oksman/Bry Encryption patent was published.The encryption patent application that was registered on August 15, 2008 by Neal Kin,Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry was published.

23 February 2010 Marathon Digital Holdings was founded

Feb-may 2010 1 BTC=0.01 USD

3 May 2010  Last mining activity of Satoshi Nakamoto

17 May 2010 The third Satoshi Nakamoto transaction on Block 56173 and moved the rewards from 10 blocks (Blocks 1760, 3479, 9443, 9925, 10645, 14450, 15817, 19093, 23014, 28593)

18 May 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10000 BTC for 2 pizzas on Bitcoin Forum.

22 May 2010 4 days later Bitcoin talk user Jeremy Sturdivant Jercos purchased the 2 pizzas with a credit card and had them sent to Laszlo Hanyecz home address. User "SmokeTooMuch" auctioned 10000 BTC for 50 USD(cumulatively), but no buyers.

1 June 2010 Agent #6 an early Bitcoin miner was the first to succesfully use GPU mining

1 BTC = 0.08 USD, the price grew from 0.009 to 0.08 in 5 days.

11 June 2010 Gawker published an article about BTC

6 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3 released

11 July 2010 An article about Bitcoin v0.3 on Slashdot brought a lot of new Bitcoin users.

12 July 2010 Bitcoin value increased 10x - Over a 5 day period beginning on July 12, the exchange value of Bitcoin increased 10 times from US$0.008/BTC to US$0.080/BTC.

15 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.1 released

17 July 2010 MtGox was established by Jeb McCaleb. The name MtGox meant Magic the gathering exchange, and was originally a Magic cards trading exchange.

17 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.2 released

18 July 2010 ArtForz established an OpenGL GPU hash farm and generated his first Bitcoin block.

15 August 2010 A vulnerability found by Jeff Garzik in the Bitcoin system that caused Bitcoins to be improperly verified is discovered and exploited, resulting in the generation of 184 billion Bitcoins.

24 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.2.5 released

25 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.3 released

29 July 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.6 released

July 2010 Martti Malmi launched the non-English Bitcoin forum, in Russian

1 August 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.7 released

3 August 2010 Bitcoin Version 0.3.8 released

9 August 2010 Bitcoin Linux64 Version 0.3.8.1 released

15 August 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.10 released

20 August 2010 1 BTC= 0.06 USD

27 August 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.11 released

9 September 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.12 released

14 September 2010 An offer was made by Jeff Garzik, in the name of the Bitcoin Store, to puddinpop to open source their Windows-based CUDA client. The offer was in the form of 10000 BTC which was valued at around USD 600 to USD 650.

14 September 2010 Split allocation of the generation reward used to mine Block 79,764.

18 September 2010 CUDA became open-source. Under the MIT license, puddinpop released the source of their Windows-based CUDA client, open sourced by the Bitcoin Store, following a contribution by Jeff Garzik

18 September 2010 Bitcoin Pooled Mining a method by which several users work collectively to mine Bitcoins and share in the benefits, mines its first block.

29 September 2010 Another exploit discovered A micro-transactions exploit was discovered by kermit, precipitating the release of Version 0.3.13.

1 October 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.13 released

October 2010 Financial Action Task Force,  that developsed and promoted policies to prevent money laundering , published Money Laundering Using New Payment Methods, to warn about the use of digital currencies to finance terrorist groups.

October 2010 The first public version of an OpenCL miner was released.

7 October 2010 The Bitcoin exchange rate, stalled at US$0.06/BTC for several months,

10 October 2010 MtGox changed its main funding option from PayPal to Liberty Reserve.

16 October 2010 First escrow transaction: Bitcoin Forum members Diablo-D3 and nanotube did the first recorded escrow trade of Bitcoins with theymos as escrow.

17 October 2010 The #bitcoin-otc trading channel is registered on freenode IRC as a marketplace for over-the-counter trading of Bitcoins.

20 October 2010 Jon Matonis announced on Twitter Free Bitcoins from the Bitcoin Faucet https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ - faucet was made by Gavin Andresen

21 October 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.14 released

28 October 2010 Facilitated by #bitcoin-otc, the first recorded short sale of Bitcoins in the form of a 100 BTC loan from nanotube to kiba.

6 November 2010 Bitboy created bitcoin brand ifor free on the Bicointalk forum

6 November 2010 Calculated by multiplying the number of Bitcoins in circulation by the last trade on MtGox, the Bitcoin economy exceeds US$1 million. The price on MtGox reached US$0.50/BTC.

6 November 2010 4 million Bitcoin out of 21 had been mined

13 November 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.15 released

25 November 2010 Bitcoin 0.3.17 released

1 December 2010 1st mining pool created by Slushm,Block 94933, Marek “Slush” Palatinus founded the first Bitcoin mining project in Prague , which was simply called Bitcoin.cz.

7 December 2010 Bitcoin Forum member doublec compiled Bitcoind, which was written for the Nokia N900 mobile computer.

8 December 2010 The first portable-to-portable transaction of Bitcoins occured when ribuck sent doublec 0.42 BTC using Bitcoind.

9 December 2010 Difficulty increased - The generation difficulty exceeded 10000

10 December 2010 An article suggested that people could use bitcoins to donate to wikileaks

11 December 2010 Satoshi Nakamotos last words: "It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. Wikileaks had kicked the hornet nest and the swarm is headed toward us".

14 December 2010 Jon Matonis tweeted "Bitcoin article is now back on Wikipedia! (after prior removal) 

15 December 2010 Slush made first bitcoin trade to forex CZK to BTC
 
16 December 2010 Martti Malmi had mined 55000 Btc on his laptop. 30000 were spent on building bitcoinexchange.

19 December 2010 Gavin Andresen announced that he was stepping in to do "more active project management for bitcoin".