History of Bitcoin

5 January 2019 Altcoin Etherium classic hit by 51%attack  7 February 2019 Argentina began accepting BTC for public transport in 33 cities. 21 February 2019 Bitcoin core Maintainer Vladimir van der Laan refused that we will ever see an increase in Bitcoins 21 mio supply.  A false rumour spread by Jiang Zhuoer. 25 February 2019 Bank Frick began trading platform for institutional investors, DLT Market 13 March 2019 Mark Karpeles and the Mt. Gox trial began at the court of Tokyo. 16 March 2019 1 BTC=4000 USD 26 March 2019 DragonEx exchange was hacked. April 2019 Algorand launched. 22 April 2019 Binance halted trading in Bitcoin SV   30 April 2019 Hackers attacked Microsoft outlook to loot BTC 2 May 2019 Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0 7 May 2019 Binance was hacked. 7000 Btc looted. 13 May 2019 Bitcoin investor won 75 mio USD lawsuit against AT&T sim swapping-hack 10 June 2019 Michael "Fanquake" Ford a major contributor to Bitcoin became maintainer. 18 June 2019 Facebook l...

1 January 2018 SpaceBTC,Bter,Brighton peak disappeared. 3 January 2018 Robbery in Milwaukee, BTC trade ended in violence. 7 January 2018 Hacker E.Pinsky used SIM-swapping and hacked crypto wallet of Terpin 14 January 2018 Robbery of Pavel Nyashin,St.Petersburg,Russia.Loss=425000 USD.  15 January 2018 Russian gang stole 100000 Euros in BTC from Russian couple at Phuket   15 January 2018 Jeff Garzik began repurposing Segwit2x project 15 January 2018 Canadian KFC accepted Bitcoin payments.BCC Exchange(Bitconnect) scam 16 January 2018 Payments via Lightning network available on Blockstream shop. 18 January 2018 Hong Kong Btc trader lured to a fake meeting and robbed of 1.4 mio HKD. 19 January 2018 Bitcoin Farm game released by RewindApp. 22 January 2018 South Korea made a regulation that requires all the BTC buyers to reveal their identity. 23 January 2018 A failed armed robbery attempt of Canadian bitcoin exchange 24 January 2018 Stripe announced that it would stop support btc p...

  Name:Mike Schmidt  Websites Brink - 2018 product manager Blockstream +contributor to Bitcoin Optech . taproot review sessions, workshops.

Name :Gregory Sanders aka instagibbs Achievements: 10 January 2018 Warned bitcoiners against the fraudulent blockexplorer.com Active contributor Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 Websites : https://github.com/instagibbs https://scalingbitcoin.org/transcript/milan2016/segwit-lessons-learned https://libraries.io/github/instagibbs/datastuff IRC nick  instagibbs

Name: Rusty Russell Achievements: - 20 years of Free/Open Source Software development Linux network -   Advisor to  Linux Australia - Bip 9 version bits with timeout and delay with Pieter Wuille , Peter Todd & Gregory Fulton Maxwell - Implented high scalabiltiy - Lighting network Websites: https://r6.ca/blog/20180225T160548Z.html https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-corrosion-of-ethics-in-cryptocurrencies-f7ba77e9dfc3 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a?source=user_profile---------3---------------- https://github.com/rustyrussell https://rusty.ozlabs.org/ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/ Rusty Russell Bitcoin adress: 1RustyR X2oai4EYYDpQGWvEL62BBGqN9T 

Name:  Andrew Chow aka Goatpig Achievements: Lead developer Armory Wallet Blockstream Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 Bitcoin Core version 0.14.1 Bitcoin Core version  0.15.0. Bitcoin Core version  0.15.0.1   Bitcoin Core version  0.15.1   Bitcoin Core version 0.16.0 Bitcoin Core version 0.18.1 Bitcoin address :1PN1PuXCm63LK7V6BNwJTZrrAYA47D jkxA Websites: https://github.com/achow101 https://achow101.com/ https://keybase.io/achow101 https://libraries.io/github/achow101 https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-unlimited-token-dives/

Name :Warren Togami Achievements: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4 Website: http://wtogami.blogspot.com/

Name: Patrick "pstratem" "phantomcircuit" Strateman Nationality:American Achievements: 83 commits - Did the Python bitcoin implementation - Bip 14 Protocol version and user agent Bitcoin core 0.84 Bitcoin core 0.9 Bitcoin core 0.11 Website: https://github.com/pstratem

Name: Andrew Poelstra Achievements: Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 MimbleWimble wizards wallet coinjoin libsecp256k1 Websites: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ https://github.com/apoelstra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTRlbCaUyM http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2016-11-21-mimblewimble/ http://nakamotoinstitute.org/authors/andrew-poelstra/ https://genius.com/artists/Andrew-poelstra http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Poelstra:Andrew https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-privacy-confidential-transactions-feature-can-fix-some-of-coinjoin-s-problems-1457703275/ https://blockstream.com/2018/02/21/bulletproofs-faster-rangeproofs-and-much-more.html

Name: Christian "Dr. Bitcoin" Decker Achievements: - Author of Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox study with Professor Roger Wattenhofe - BIP 140 consensus(soft fork) Normalized TXID(Draft) - Ph.d 2016 Websites https://disco.ethz.ch/alumni/cdecker https://theblockchainandus.com/christian-decker/ https://brink.dev/ decker.christian@gmail.com Text made by Gemini Ai: Christian Decker: A Pillar of Bitcoin's Scalability and Decentralized Future Executive Summary This report details the profound contributions of Christian Decker, a pivotal figure in the Bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem. As the world's first individual to earn a PhD entirely focused on Bitcoin, Decker has uniquely bridged academic rigor with practical engineering, establishing himself as a leading authority in distributed systems and cryptocurrency scaling. His work spans foundational research, including his seminal thesis on Bitcoin's information propagation, and the development ...