History of Bitcoin

2 January 2016 Lightning labs was founded by Elizabeth Stark, Joseph Poon,Thaddeus Dryja, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. 14 January 2016 Mike hearn left Bitcoin development. 19 January 2016 The movie Banking on Bitcoin was released. 30 January 2016 Network rate exceeded 1 exahash/sec 1 February 2016  Jyske Bankmanager Anders Dam said Bitcoin was an advanced version of the Christiania coin. 4 February 2016 A Vietnamese movie named Bitcoin Heist was released. 23 February 2016 Bitcoin core 0.12 was released 1 March 2016 Japan recognized virtual currencies as having a function similar to real money. Bidorbuy, the largest South African online marketplace, launched btc payments for both buyers and sellers 14 March 2016 Shapeshift was hacked loss=315 BTC 2 more attacks which resulted in 469 BTC, 1900 LTC and 5800 ETH stolen 30 March 2016 Wuille,Johnson Lau & Lombrozo launched final testnet of SegWit.Repeated DDoS attacks forced Coinkite Btc wallet to close down web service 31 March 20...

Name: Matt "The Blue Matt" Corallo - A computer scientist from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Was 16-17 year when he started as a bitcoin core developer. - Has made important contributions to the bitcoin client,infrastructure, and the protocol. - Maintainer of the” relay network, introduced in 2014 - Sidechain and Bitcoin extensibility. - Contributed to BitcoinJ - Java implementation for lightweight applications. - Former Blockstream & Chaincode - Funded by Square Crypto BIP 21: URI Scheme(Supported since 0.6) BIP 37: Connection bloom filtering BIP 111: NODE_BLOOM service bit(Draft) with Peter Todd(Supported since 0.12) BIP 152: Compact block relay Bitcoin version 0.4.0 Bitcoin version 0.5.0 Bitcoin version 0.5.1 Bitcoin Core 0.6 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 Bitcoin Core 0.8.4 Bitcoin Core 0.11.0 Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Bitcoin Core version 0.16-0.19.1 Matt Corallo b...