History of Bitcoin

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....

 Jude Mihon aka St. Jude " Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world ." Definiton of a  Cypherpunk A Cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. The cypherpunks were a group of individuals who emerged in the 1990s and were dedicated to promoting the use of strong encryption and privacy-enhancing technologies for individuals and businesses. The group's core philosophy was that individuals should have the right to protect their privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom of association. The cypherpunks believed that cryptography could be used to create a more secure and private internet, and that individuals should be able to communicate and trans...

Name :Jonas Schnelli Nationality :Swiss Achievements: Joined April 2013 - Creator hardware bitcoin wallet Digital bitbox - RPC Interface - The author of libbtc - BIP 150 Peer Authentication(Draft) - BIP 151 Peer-to-peer communivation encryption(Draft) - Bitcoin core maintainer until 21 October 2021 Bitcoin Core 0.82-19 Received funding from BitMain Websites: https://github.com/jonasschnelli https://digitalbitbox.com https://bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch/ https://bitcoincore.org/en/team/ https://schweizermonat.ch/im-maschinenraum-einer-kryptowaehrung/