History of Bitcoin

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...

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 :Gary Rowe Achievements: - MultiBit(lightweight, international bitcoin wallet for Windows) - XChange - Together With Mike hearn BitcoinJ - "a Java implementation of the bitcoin protocol Website: http://gary-rowe.com/

Name:  Mike Hearn Achievements: - Began in 2010 in his spare time from Google to develop Bitcoin, wrote emails to Satoshi Nakamoto - He created BitcoinJ along with Gary Rowe. - Build SPW wallets, for mobile phone transactions - Creator of Lighthouse - Created Bitcoin XT - Received second Satoshi transaction moving a mining reward from Satoshi to Mike Hearn in Block 11408 on April 18, 2009  -Satoshi disclosed his public key via email to Mike Hearn, promised Hearn that if Hearn sent Satoshi 32.51 BTC, Satoshi would return the same+50 BTC.   BIP 31 Pong message(Supported since Bitcoin Core 0.6.1) BIP 37 Connection bloom filtering(Supported since Bitcoin Core 0.8) Bip 64 getuxo message(Final) BIP 70 Payment protcol(Final) Bitcoin Core 0.6.1 Bitcoin Core 0.8. Bitcoin Core 0.9 Bitcoin Core 0.11.0 Websites: https://github.com/mikehearn https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-two-guys-at-the-heart-of-bitcoins-crisis?trk_source=recommended...