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History of Bitcoin 2020

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3 January 2020 1 BTC=7247 USD.Ubisoft and Ultra began development of blockchain gaming. 8 January 2020 Blockchain advisor kidnapped in Bangkok and ransomed for 60k in btc. 12 January 2020 Adam Back predicted that Hal Finney s price target of 10 mio USD would happen if BTC became a global dominant financial transfer system. 20 January 2020 Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet film released. 6  February 2020 1 BTC=10000 USD 10  February 2020 Home invaders forced Carlisle victims to create crypto exchange accounts 24 February 2020 Caitling Long began plans for a future Bitcoin bank Avanti. 25 February 2020 1 BTC=9563 USD 3 March 2020 Trident Crypto Fund suffered a major data leak,120k passwords pawned. 4 March 2020 Bitcoin 19.1 released 13 March 2020 Bitcoin priced dropped 50% to 3915 USD 13 March 2020 A bitcoin trader named I am Nomad lost 1220 BTC on BitMex 16 March 16 2020 Solana launched 27 March 2020 Scammers created fake QR-code generators and loo...

History of Bitcoin 2014

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1 January 2014 The tv movie "The Bitcoin Phenomenon" was released.Altcoin Counterparty launched. Life on Bitcoin was released, a couple tried to live on btc for 90 days. 1 January 2014 Poland announced in its 2014 budget a 23% tax on Bitcoin mining activity. 2 January 2014 Zynga was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets. 12 January 2014 Mastering Bitcoin book released by Andreas Antopolous. 15 January 2014 The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino accepted Btc.The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec 18 January 2014 Dash launched as Xcoin,later named Darkcoin. Ethereum launched. 29 January 2014 Vera&John became the first licensed casino to accept Btc. 1 February 2014 Raoul Pal co-founded financial media platform Real Vision. Neo launched 4 February 2014 Naomi Brockwell released "Bitcoin Hearing Song " 7 February 2014 Apple banned Bitcoin app. 7 February 2014 1 BTC=703.56 USD.DDOS attack on Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and BTC-e. 17 February 20...

History of Bitcoin 2009

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  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...

Bitcoin before 2009

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2000 BC Abacus was often called the first computer. It was invented to help with calculation. 1900 BC Egyptian hieroglyphs. 1500 BC Clay tablets from Mesopotamia 1000 BC Spartan scytale and use of Helots to send hidden messages. 50 BC Caesarian code 200 Mlecchita vikalpa 800 Arab frequency analysis 1404 The Voynich manuscript 1652 Pascal build the first calculation machine which could add and subtract numbers up to 6 ciphers. 1786 Baron Gripenstierna offered his invention the cipher machine to the Swedish king Gustav 3. A secretary would read the text on the front, by turning the wheel of the machine.The coded text and unexplained row of numbers, could only be read on the back side and then written down by another secretary. The receiver read the text by turning the numbers on his own machine. 1801 French weaver Joseph Jacquard made punch cards with holes for his loom. The holes told the loom how to weave patterns in the cloth. These holes were an example of early computer code 1840 Ch...

Hal Finney

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Name :Hal Finney May 4,1956-August 28 2014 Achievements: -In the beginning of the 1990`s he was writing about Digital currency. -The Creator of the Reusable Proofs of Work system in 2004. -A cypherpunk that developed the first secure version of PGP 2.0 -Skilled in the programming language C and software developer and cryptography expert -He was the second user of the bitcoin project. Was in contact with Satoshi Nakamoto on the cryptography mail list. -The first transaction of Bitcoin currency, in block 170, was made between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. -Identified a double-spending attack within the bitcoin network named after him: Finney Attack Unfortunately in the end of 2009, Hal Finney was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis .Even when he was paralyzed, Hal Finney continued developing the bitcoin project. He began working on an experimental piece of code named bcflick, which used Trusted Computing to strengthen bitcoin wallets. Website: https://medium...

Satoshi Nakamoto

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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...