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 Ve...