History of Bitcoin 2011
2 January 2011 Eff started accepting BTC
8 January 2011 Slush's Pool reached 10000 Mhash/s
27 January 2011 Trade on #bitcoin-otc: 3 Zimdollars were traded for 12 BTC.
28 January 2011 25% of total Bitcoins generated - With the generation of Block 105000, 5.25 million Bitcoins had been generated.
February 2011 In Canada, Bill C-31 defined Bitcoin transactions as money services business and forced the parties to register the transaction in an official registry and adhere to an anti-money laundering protocol. This bill also banned banks from opening accounts for unregistered Bitcoin entities. All these restrictions were applicable both for local and foreign Canadian residents, individuals and corporate
9 February 2011 Bitcoin reached USD 1.00 at MtGox, for the first time. Most of the btc mined were mined by only 64 very active bitcoin miners
10 February 2011 Following coverage of US$/BTC parity being reached on Slashdot and Hacker News, along with buzz on Twitter, the Bitcoin.org website struggled under increased traffic.
13 February 2011 An Aussie of the Bitcoin Forum attempted to sell his 1984 Celica Supra for 3000 BTC, and became the first person to offer a vehicle in exchange for Bitcoins.
14 February 2011 Bitcoin 0.3.2 was released
25 February 2011 WeUseCoins.com was registered and built into a Bitcoin knowledge resource.
March 2011 A major update to the Bitcoin Market website reduced the minimum trade size, permitted trading 24/7, and helped to ensure that payments are made for executed trades.
6 March 2011 Jed McCaleb sold MtGox to the Tibanne Company. A new high of nearly 900Ghash/sec total Bitcoin network computation speed was reached. Shortly thereafter, it drops to 500Ghash/sec. It is speculated that the reduction was the result of a supercomputer or bot-net joining.
18 March 2011 A 6 week low of nearly US$0.70/BTC exchange rate was reached after a decline following the US$1.00/BTC high on February 9 and a short burst of sales of Bitcoin at lower prices.
23 March 2011 Mike Hearn made an open source Java client for the Bitcoin peer-to-peer currency system, simply called BitcoinJ.
25 March 2011 The second, and largest, decrease in difficulty was recorded at nearly 10 percent.
27 March 2011 Britcoin became the first market for the exchange of Bitcoin and(GBP)
31 March 2011 1 BTC= 0.7 USD Bitcoin Brasil first market for exchange of Btc and Brazilian Reals.
5 April 2011 BitMarket.eu became first market for exchange of BTC and Polish zloty, Euro.
11 April 2011 Jonas Schnelli created his first pull request for Bitcoin core.
12 April 2011 The first Bitcoin put option contract was sold on #bitcoin-otc.
16 April 2011 TIME published an article about Bitcoin.
18 April 2011 Namecoin first Altcoin launched
21 Apr 2011 Bruce Wagner,Plato and Edward Gel from vlogwrap began the bitcoin show
23 April 2011 On MtGox, the BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passed parity with the Euro and the British Sterling Pound. The value of Bitcoin money stock passed US$10 million.
Satoshi Nakamotos last words: "I`ve moved on to other things, it is in good hands with Gavin and everyone".
27 April 2011 Bitcoin version 0.3.21 released.VirWoX began trading BTC against Second Life Lindens and became first market to trade Bitcoins against a virtual currency. Gavin Andresen announced on bitcoin talk that he would talk to CIA and that he was paid 3000 in USD as a one time fee. Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared.
30 April 2011 The Difficulty surpassed 100000
1 May 2011 Wu Jihan bought for the sum of 100000 yuan and purchased 900 Btc. He was also the co founder of China’s Bitcoin community site +translated the Bitcoin white Paper to Chinese.
10 May 2011 Jeremy Sturdivant sold the 10000 Btc he had received from Lazlo for pizzas, who didn't regret the transaction and it helped legitimized bitcoin for real world goods.
17 May 2011 Greg Schoen twitted "I wish I had kept my 1700 BTC @ $0.06 instead of selling them at $0.30, now that they're $8.00"
1 June 2011: A 25-year-old electrical engineer, who in the summer of 2011 traveled from Connecticut to Los Angeles, covering his expenses merely with bitcoins. 12 year old Idaho citizen Erik Finman bought 1000 USD worth of Btc.
1 June 2011 Btcc was Founded in Shanghai,later moved to Hong Kong.
2 June 2011 At MtGox, the exchange rate was almost US$10 per BTC.
4 June 2011 Bitcoin Market dropped PayPal trading due to fraud.
5 June 2011 Bitcoin version 0.3.22 released
8 June 2011 The price of a Bitcoin on MtGox reached an all-time high of US$31.91 with a market capitalization of around US$206 million.
10 June 2011 In the largest percentage price decrease to-date, the MtGox Bitcon exchange rate felll to nearly 10 USD, just four days after its peak at 31.9 USD.The incident became known as the Great Bubble of 2011.
13 June 2011 Largest ever Bitcoin theft reported - Bitcoin Forum member, allinvain, claimed that 25000 BTC were stolen from his wallet. At the time, the exchange rate put the amount close to US$375,000. It was caused by Bitcoin-qt developers, who released about five versions of the thing before making the wallet encrypt able.
14 June 2011 WikiLeaks began accepting Bitcoin donations.Bitcoin version 0.3.22 released. Gavin Andresen gave a talk to Cia about Bitcoin.
19 June 2011 MtGox first hack - a significant breach of security that caused fraudulent trading and required Mt. Gox to be shut down for seven days. The breach compromised the MtGox database with a leak of the user table that contains user names, email addresses, and password hashes of 60,000 accounts. An admin account was accessed from which sell orders were issued for hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins, which forced the MtGox price down to US$17.51 to US$0.01 per Bitcoin.
" I have hacked into mtgox database. Got a huge number of logins password combos. Mtgox has fixed the problem now. Too late, cause I've already got the data.Will sell the database for the right price.Send your offers to: gfc06@hotmail.com"
19 June 2011 Trading stopped at TradeHill and Britcoin while security measures were reviewed.Users that were registered at MyBitcoin with the same username as on MtGox had their passwords hacked and balances stolen from around 600 MyBitcoin accounts, with one user losing more than 2,000 BTC.
20 June 2011 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discontinued the acceptance of donations in Btc for reasons of legal issues
22 June 2011 Bitcoin accepted at Restaurant room77 in Kreuzberg
24 June 2011 Difficulty passed 1 million - With Block 133056, the Bitcoin generation difficulty passes 1 million for the first time.
29 June 2011 BitPay launched as the first smartphone e-wallet for Btc.
1 July 2011 Ubitex,1 of 3 scams on GLBSE disappeared.Loss : 1000 BTC (estimated)
3 July 3 2011 Len Sassaman died, his wife Patterson reported that her husband's death was a suicide because of depression.
4 July 2011 Bitcoin talk user Hashcoin proposed a two-tier payment channel that required users to exchange several partially signed multi signature transactions.
8 July 2011 Bitcoin version 0.3.24 released
11 July 2011 Corné Plooy had created a POS payment layer system.
15 July 2011 WikiLeaks accepted anonymous Bitcoin donations on 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v received 4000 BTC
17 July 2011 First Bitcoin malware
19 July 2011 First NFC Bitcoin transaction. Mike Hearn made his manager Tadek the world’s first recipient of Bitcoins via NFC at 4:05 p.m. CET.
20 July 2011 Intervex Digital released the first Bitcoin application to be developed for the Apple iPad, Bitcoins Mobile.
22 July 2011 Room 77,Kreuzberg began accepting btc.
26 July 2011 Polish Bitomat.pl, the world’s third largest Bitcoin exchange, lost access to its wallet.dat file and 17000 Btc.
28 July 2011 Kraken launched in USA.
30 July 2011 Len Sassaman memorial embedded to btc blockchain said "Len was our friend, a brilliant mind, a kind soul and a devious schemer"
3 August 2011 A presentation given by Kaminsky at Black Hat Briefings revealed that a testimonial in honor of Sassaman had been permanently embedded into Btc's blockchain
5 August 2011 MyBitcoin lost 150000 Bitcoins(over USD 2 million in 2011) Tom Williams announced that all BTC were gone. After an investigation it was concluded that the security of SCI (Shopping Cart Interface) system had been breached.
20 August 2011 he first Bitcoin Conference and World Expo was held in New York
23 August 2011 P2Pool, mined its first BTCmain net block (Block 142,312).
24 August 2011 The Bitcoin Show: Special Bitcoin Conference Coverage: Jeff Garzik
30 August 2011 The first back-to-back drop in difficulty adjustment occurred at block 143136.
6 September 2011 Mike Caldwell began minting physical Bitcoins, Casacius Coins.
9 September 2011 Gavin Andresen warned Bitcointalk users about Altcoin Scams.
11 September 2011 Altcoin Namecoin launched,4 years later 28 of 120000 registered names were in use.
23 September 2011 Bitcoin version 0.4.0
1 October 2011 1 BTC=2 USD
3 October 2011 Martti Malmi offered a 1000 BTC bounty for "getting a major business to accept Bitcoin" it was never claimed.
5 October 2011 Bitcoin7.com was hacked. 10-15000 BTC (estimated) stolen.
7 October 2011 Litecoin launched
19 October 2011 First Bitcoin Conference
24 October 2011 Bitcoin reporter offered 5 BTC for a tweet.
28 October 2011 Mt. Gox hacked a second time 3000 BTC of customer funds were stolen in a couple dozen transactions. MtGox repaid their customers.
November 2011 SkepsiDyne Integrated Node running on GLBSE(fake cloud mining farm) decided to fraud their investors. Loss : 1000 BTC
15 November 2011 The first CVE was assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit (CVE-2011-4447).
21 November 2011 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.0 released
25 November 2011 Bitcoin & Future Technology Euro Conference Prague.
12 December 2011 Largest BTC fee in a single transaction. Largest amount of fees in a single transaction and most fees in a single block, 171 BTC in fees are transacted in block 157235.
15 December 2011 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.5.1
19 December 2011 The good wife had an episode called Bitcoin for Dummies, CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer, was in a courtroom scene where he testified that he doesn't consider bitcoin a true currency, and said, "There's no central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions completely peer to peer"
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