According to theymos: bitcoin.org was originally owned by Satoshi. He registered it through https://www.anonymousspeech.com
Satoshi Nakamoto publishes his paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
The first block!
First alpha release of the Bitcoin client.
First Bitcoin transaction, in block 170 - from Satoshi to Hal Finney https://blockchain.info/block/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee
$1 = 1,309.03 BTC (and theymos thought NLS was overcharging)
The Bitcoin Market is a former bitcoin currency exchange site owned and operated by dwdollar
paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos
bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users
over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
MtGox, called "Mount Gox" or "MTGOX", has been the most widely used bitcoin currency exchange market[1] since it was started, and remains the largest in terms of popularity and volume.
after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later
jgarzik offered 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client
puddinpop released source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license
kermit discovered a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release
Original Bitcoin History wiki page established on Bitcoin.org's wiki.
Enter story info here
between nanotube and Diablo-D3, escrowed by theymos.
The Bitcoin-OTC project is a marketplace for people to conduct over-the-counter trading in bitcoin. It is located in various IRC channels on the freenode IRC network.
with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to kiba, facilitated by the #bitcoin-otc market.
The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.
The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.
First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to sgornick, via the #bitcoin-otc market
Tonal Bitcoin is a representation of the Bitcoin network aimed toward providing a use-case for adoption of Bitcoin to people who prefer the Tonal number system.
Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on #bitcoin-otc at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes.
This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.
Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle traffic resulting from mentions on Slashdot, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity
A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins
Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network
after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.
A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.
The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, Britcoin, opens.
The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, Bitcoin Brazil, opens.
The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, BitMarket.eu, opens.
with the Euro (EUR) on MtGox exchange. BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on MtGox exchange. Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.
on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.
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