History of Bitcoin

2 January 2013 BitPay Btc payment processing company, announced it had surpassed 10000 Bitcoin transactions for its merchants, with no cases of payment fraud reported. Bitcoin meetups in the Bay Area began in January 2013, organized by Ryan Singer and Jared Kenna. Pavol “Stick” Rusnák and Marek “Slush” Palatinus envisioned a small, single-purpose computer that would securely store users Btc private keys. In 2013, the two founded SatoshiLabs and created Trezor. 1 February 2013 Matthew Birkenshaw and Riley Alexander, began PizzaForCoins.com, a service that acted as a middleman to allow users to order pizza with BTC in exchange for a small BTC fee. 9 February 2013 Kim Dotcom announced that his cloud storage service, Mega, began accepting Bitcoin payments through bitvoucher.co 14 February, 2013 Reddit began accepting Bitcoin 17 February, 2013 Bitmarket.eu was hacked again. Loss 620 BTC 19 February, 2013 Version 0.8 of the Bitcoin client was released. It featured Bloom Filtering and improv...

Name: Luke DashJr Nationality: American Achievements - Began 2011 - The creator of Eligius, a bitcoin mining pool. -Maintainer of BFGMiner a modular ASIC, FPGA, GPU and CPU miner written in C, cross platform for Linux, Mac, and Windows including support for OpenWrt-capable routers. - Maintainer of the bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt stable branches. - Maintainer of desktop clients for payments.  - Multiwallet - Lost 446.12 btc on Mt Gox - Favourite games: LambdaMOO, Middle Earth mush, KidMud - Funded by Hard Core Fund ,Li Lin,Stefano Vettorazzi,Jameson Lopp,Milad Mostavi,Brooke Mallers,ShaunApps,mrj1984,2xic Brage,Danny Scott,Andreas Brekken,Neil Stanley,benflap,easonrevant,Jonathan Underwood,Stevie Zollo,Neil Saltug,James Morgan. Bip 2 BIP process revised(active) Bip 17 Consensus(soft fork OP_CHECKHASHVERIFT(CHV)(withdrawn) Bip 18 HashScriptCheck Bip 19 M-of_N Standard Transactions(Low SigOP) Bip 20 URI Scheme (Replaced) Bip 22 getblock template - funda...