History of Bitcoin

5 January 2019 Altcoin Etherium classic hit by 51%attack  7 February 2019 Argentina began accepting BTC for public transport in 33 cities. 21 February 2019 Bitcoin core Maintainer Vladimir van der Laan refused that we will ever see an increase in Bitcoins 21 mio supply.  A false rumour spread by Jiang Zhuoer. 25 February 2019 Bank Frick began trading platform for institutional investors, DLT Market 13 March 2019 Mark Karpeles and the Mt. Gox trial began at the court of Tokyo. 16 March 2019 1 BTC=4000 USD 26 March 2019 DragonEx exchange was hacked. April 2019 Algorand launched. 22 April 2019 Binance halted trading in Bitcoin SV   30 April 2019 Hackers attacked Microsoft outlook to loot BTC 2 May 2019 Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0 7 May 2019 Binance was hacked. 7000 Btc looted. 13 May 2019 Bitcoin investor won 75 mio USD lawsuit against AT&T sim swapping-hack 10 June 2019 Michael "Fanquake" Ford a major contributor to Bitcoin became maintainer. 18 June 2019 Facebook l...

1 January 2014 The tv movie "The Bitcoin Phenomenon" was released.Altcoin Counterparty launched. Life on Bitcoin was released, a couple tried to live on btc for 90 days. 1 January 2014 Poland announced in its 2014 budget a 23% tax on Bitcoin mining activity. 2 January 2014 Zynga was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets. 12 January 2014 Mastering Bitcoin book released by Andreas Antopolous. 15 January 2014 The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino accepted Btc.The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec 18 January 2014 Dash launched as Xcoin,later named Darkcoin. Ethereum launched. 29 January 2014 Vera&John became the first licensed casino to accept Btc. 1 February 2014 Raoul Pal co-founded financial media platform Real Vision. Neo launched 4 February 2014 Naomi Brockwell released "Bitcoin Hearing Song " 7 February 2014 Apple banned Bitcoin app. 7 February 2014 1 BTC=703.56 USD.DDOS attack on Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and BTC-e. 17 February 20...

Name: Wladimir J van der Laan Nationality: Dutch Achievements: - Maintainer of bitcoin core releases - Wladimir`s 1st computer was a MSX & then Atari 1024ST, he learned GFA BASIC and STOS BASIC(game creator) - Began developing May 2011 - He took over from Gavin Andresen as Bitcoin`s core maintainer 8 April 2014 - Has made most commits to Bitcoin core( 7404) - Funding from MIT DCI - Has a phd in computer science specializing in graphics cards - Favourite games: Talos, SOMA, The Swapper ,Shadowrun returns, Life is strange, Discworld Bitcoin version 0.4.0 Bitcoin version 0.5.1 Bitcoin version 0.6 Bitcoin version 0.6.3 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 Bitcoin Core 0.9 - 0.20.1 Websites: https://github.com/laanwj https://github.com/bitcoin https://github.com/p2p https://x0f.org/@orionwl  https://laanwj.github.io/