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History of Bitcoin 2025

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03012025 Btc network’s hashrate briefly reached a new ATH  and miners continued to add capacity. 04012025 1 BTC=98863 USD.ATM deployment declined for the first time in the history of Btc. 05012025 Jameson Lopp released Btc 2024 annual review. 06012025 1 BTC=102296 USD 07012025 1 BTC=96980 USD 08012025 DOJ authorized to sell 69370 Btc seized in Silk Road. Howells attempt to recapture a Hdd with 8000 Btc rejected by a judge 09012025 Bitcoin Core 28.1 released 10012025 CleanSpark held 10000 BTC . Pieter Wuille + Gregory Maxwell received The Finney freedom prize:1 btc+ statue designed by Cryptograffiti 12012025 1 BTC=94567 USD. Mudrex halted withdrawals until Jan. 28. Litecoin X account hacked 15012025 BitMEX fined 100 million usd  16012025 1 BTC=99302 USD. eToro filed for a US IPO. Upbit suspension notice in South Korea 17012025 1 BTC=104900 USD, ZachXBT criticized Coinbase “Coinbase has a large fraud problem they have not disclosed publicly before and the ‘solution’ is falsely ...

History of Bitcoin 2016

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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...

Rusty Russell

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Name: Rusty Russell Achievements: - 20 years of Free/Open Source Software development Linux network -   Advisor to  Linux Australia - Bip 9 version bits with timeout and delay with Pieter Wuille , Peter Todd & Gregory Fulton Maxwell - Implented high scalabiltiy - Lighting network Websites: https://r6.ca/blog/20180225T160548Z.html https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-corrosion-of-ethics-in-cryptocurrencies-f7ba77e9dfc3 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a?source=user_profile---------3---------------- https://github.com/rustyrussell https://rusty.ozlabs.org/ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/ Rusty Russell Bitcoin adress: 1RustyR X2oai4EYYDpQGWvEL62BBGqN9T 

Pieter Wuille

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Name: Pieter "sipa" Wuille " Not sure what you've given us Hal, but as it is only 256 bit, I doubt it's a private key ." Achievements: Joined BitcoinTalk December 17, 2010 Began developing February 2011 BIP 9: Version bits with timeout and delay BIP 30: Duplicate transactions(Supported since Bitcoin Core 0.10) BIP 32: Hierarchial deterministic wallets BIP 42: A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin(Draft) BIP 62: Dealing with malleability(Witdrawn) BIP 66: Strict DER signatures(Final) BIP 103: Block size following technological growth(Draft) BIP 141: Segregated witness(consensus layer)(Supported since Core 13.0) BIP 143: Transaction signature verification for version 0 witness program Bip 144 segregated witness(Supported since Core 13.0) BIP 146 Dealing with signature encoding malleability - Many hours of hard work and testing - Created segregated witness for Bitcoin improvement and better security - Uncovered a bug in OpenSSL - Founded Blo...