History of Bitcoin

2 January 2013 BitPay Btc payment processing company, announced it had surpassed 10000 Bitcoin transactions for its merchants, with no cases of payment fraud reported. Bitcoin meetups in the Bay Area began in January 2013, organized by Ryan Singer and Jared Kenna. Pavol “Stick” Rusnák and Marek “Slush” Palatinus envisioned a small, single-purpose computer that would securely store users Btc private keys. In 2013, the two founded SatoshiLabs and created Trezor. 1 February 2013 Matthew Birkenshaw and Riley Alexander, began PizzaForCoins.com, a service that acted as a middleman to allow users to order pizza with BTC in exchange for a small BTC fee. 9 February 2013 Kim Dotcom announced that his cloud storage service, Mega, began accepting Bitcoin payments through bitvoucher.co 14 February, 2013 Reddit began accepting Bitcoin 17 February, 2013 Bitmarket.eu was hacked again. Loss 620 BTC 19 February, 2013 Version 0.8 of the Bitcoin client was released. It featured Bloom Filtering and improv...

  Name: Cøbra Cøbra is a security minded and privacy oriented webmaster of Bitcoin.Org You can give him some credit for his hard work: Cøbra BTC address is 1Cobra3fJstD9g3DJ2oaUpDps5gJsZa4eS PGP key fingerprint 61559B1EEFB3F8DA6C40BAAC6F85594478CE4C7A.

Name: Emil Engler Nationality:German  17 commits Skills:C, perl(1) or sh(1) , https://www.openbsd.org/ Beekeping  Websites: https://emilengler.com/ https://libera.chat/ https://freenode.net/ https://github.com/emilengler?tab=overview&from=2021-05-01&to=2021-05-31 https://emilengler.com/docs/int_overflow.html  Beekeping

34 commits Name :Fabian Jahr Nationality: German - Reviewing pull requests - Fixing bugs - Made coinstatsindex .   - Organize and co-host Bitcoin Socratic Seminars . Bitcoin developer received funding from OKCoin ,Jameson Lopp,Robert Spi Bitcoin Core 0.20 Websites: https://bitcoinsaigon.org/fabian-jahr-interview/ https://github.com/fjahr https://fjahr.com/ Sponsor https://github.com/sponsors/fjahr

Name: Chris Moore "dooglus" Nationality :Canadian Website : https://github.com/dooglus created  https://just-dice.com/ 28 commits began developing bitcoin in February 2011

Name: Bjarne Stroustrup "C++ is a general purpose programming language designed to make programming more enjoyable for the serious programmer.” Achievements: Invented 1985 The C++ programming language emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry when Bjarne Stroustrup publishes the book The C++ Programming Language. The work that led to C++ started in autumn of 1979 under the name ‘‘C with Classes.’’     1979  Work on ‘‘C with Classes’’ began.  The initial feature set included classes and derived classes, public/private access control, constructors and destructors, and function declarations with argument checking.  The first library supported non-pre-emptive concurrent tasks and random number generators.   1984  ‘‘C with Classes’’ was renamed to C++.  By then, C++ had acquired virtual functions, function and operator overloading, references, and the I/O stream and complex number libraries.   19...

Name: Marco Falke Achievements: 2412 commits most commits - Testing & quality maintainer for Bitcoin core (13 april 2016) - Test framework and unit tests, increasing coverage - Sanity-checking the wallet fee functionality - Reviewing and overseeing merge pull request for the QA and testing framework - Sponsor of Steve Kowalik ,Michael Ford,Rich Felker,Laszlo Nagy Bitcoin core 13.1 Bitcoin core 13.2 Bitcoin core 0.19.1 Bitcoin core maintainer Website: https://github.com/MarcoFalke https://github.com/MarcoFalke?tab=repositories Marco Falke Bitcoin address :1KkFzxuPRC4R2bQLYybdWYi1XvUf9n3mui

Name: Satoshi Nakamoto - Creator of the Bitcoin whitepaper " The human mind has an equal capacity for pattern-matching and self-deception " - Bamber Gascoigne   “ He’s a world-class programmer, with a deep understanding of the C++ programming language,” he said. “He understands economics, cryptography, and peer-to-peer networking . ” Dan Kaminsky, The New Yorker   "Satoshi was a master of the intricacies, and I've only seen this in young programmers. It seems hard to master C++ if you didn't learn it while you’re young. Hal Finney,First recipent of a bitcoin Achievements: - Creator of the Bitcoin whitepaper - Satoshi Nakamoto wrote his posts on Tor and registred the domain name on the day August 18, 2008: The domain name bitcoin.org was registered on anonymousspeech. The domain name was "WhoisGuard Protected" - 31 August 2008: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was releassed - 31 October  2008: Someone using the name Satoshi Na...