History

The U.S. government establishes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve & United States Digital Asset Stockpile

Former President Donald Trump promises to create a bitcoin US strategic reserve

9 Spot Ethereum ETF’s begin trading on Wall St.

Runes launches in the same block (840,000) as the bitcoin halving

Bitcoin’s 4th Halving! Issuance halved from 6.25 → 3.125

Bitcoin price reaches $70k setting new all time high (a month before the halving)

10 spot Bitcoin ETF’s begin trading on Wall St including Blackrock, Fidelity, Ark & 21Shares, VanEck & Grayscale

SEC’s Twitter account gets hacked and tweets that the Bitcoin ETF is approved days before the real announcement

CZ steps down as CEO of Binance as part of $4B Settlement With US Department of Justice

Blackrock’s iShares BTC ETF is listed on the DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation)

Cointelegraph falsely tweets that the SEC approved the iShares Bitcoin ETF causing price to spike +10% to $30k

Caroline Ellison begins her testimony in SBF’s trial

SBF’s trial begins

MicroStrategy purchases 5,445 BTC at a cost of $147.3M

SBF is sent to jail to await trial after having his bail revoked

PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin in collaboration with Paxos

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 467 BTC at a cost of $14.4M

Gerbz begins buidling this historical timeline

SEC sues Ripple for selling unlicensed securities

Gemini sues DCG and Barry Silbert, alleging fraud

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 12,333 BTC at a cost of $347M

Do Kwon is sentenced to 4 months in jail

SEC charges Coinbase for operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency

SEC files 13 charges against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

MicroStrategy purchases 1,045 BTC at a cost of $29.30M

MicroStrategy purchases 6,455 BTC at a cost of $150.00M

Do Kwon is arrested in Montenegro

SEC charges Justin Sun and eight celebrities for securities violations

Gavin Andresen edits his now famous blog post to say “I now know it was a mistake to trust Craig Wright as much as I did”

MicroStrategy purchases 810 BTC at a cost of $13.65M

MicroStrategy sells 704 BTC for a total of $11.8M

Judge orders Peter McCormack must pay Craig Wright $1.1M

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 2,395 BTC at a cost of $42.8M

SBF is arrested in the Bahamas

Caroline Elison is fired after FTX and Alameda file for bankruptcy

Gavin Wood announces he’s stepping down as Polkadot’s CEO

Robert Breedlove predicts Bitcoin will be equivalent to $1M (in today’s money) by 2031

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell steps down

MicroStrategy purchases 301 BTC at a cost of $6M

The White House releases a comprehensive framework for responsible development of digital assets

Ethereum completes “The Merge” – an upgrade from the original proof-of-work mechanism to proof-of-stake

Caroline Ellison becomes the sole CEO of Alameda Research

MicroStrategy purchases 480 BTC at a cost of $10M

“The Pomp Podcast” hits 1,000th episode

LUNA price crashes as billions of tokens are minted in an attempt to maintain the UST peg

Terra’s UST stablecoin breaks its $1 peg

CZ writes Elon Musk a $500 million “blank check” to assist with Twitter’s takeover

The Central African Republic (CAR) becomes the second country in the world after El Salvador to accept bitcoin as legal tender

LUNA hits an all time high of ~$118.85

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 4,167 BTC at a cost of $190M

The White House issues an Executive Order ensuring responsible development of digital assets

The Ukranian government solicits crypto donations after Russian invasion

The US DOJ announces it seized 94,643 of the 119,756 BTC stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 660 BTC at a cost of $25M

The IMF urges El Salvador to remove bitcoin as legal tender

Mike Novogratz gets a LUNA tattoo on his left arm after promising he would when LUNA hits $100

MicroStrategy purchases 1,914 BTC at a cost of $94.2M

Elon says he thinks Nick Szabo might be Satoshi

Peter McCormack buys Real Bedford Football Club giving “Bitcoiners” a team to root for

MicroStrategy announces multiple purchases: 1,434 BTC at a cost of $82.4M

Craig Wright wins court case and is award half of the 1.1 million BTC mined by Satoshi

MicroStrategy purchases 7,002 BTC at a cost of $414M

The US passes $1.2T Infrastructure bill which includes last minute crypto provisions

China bans crypto trading

Bitcoin Taproot upgrade goes live

MicroStrategy purchases 8,957 BTC at a cost of $419M

Charlie Shrem is sued by the Winklevoss Twins for $32M

Bitcoin reaches an all time high of $69,000

El Salvador begins buying bitcoin

Germany allows financial institutions to hold up to 20% in cryptocurrency

Gerbz launches The BitLift Podcast

John McAfee found dead in jail cell in Barcelona in apparent suicide

MicroStrategy purchases 13,005 BTC at a cost of $249M

President Bukele announces El Salvador will become the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender at Bitcoin Miami 2021

Mike Novogratz agrees to getting a LUNA tattoo when it reaches $100

China reiterates that all crypto trading is illegal

MicroStrategy purchases 229 BTC at a cost of $10M

MicroStrategy purchases 271 BTC at a cost of $15M

Elon announces that Tesla has suspended BTC payments over concerns regarding Bitcoin’s energy usage

Dogecoin’s price reaches its all-time-high at ~$0.70 USD

Galaxy Digital acquires BitGo for $1.2B

China bans Bitcoin mining, forcing miners to the United States

Coinbase becomes a public company on the Nasdaq via a direct stock listing

Dogecoin’s price soars 80% after Elon Musk tweets “Doge Barking at the Moon”

Dogecoin’s price skyrockets 100% after Elon Musk tweets a painting with the caption “Doge Barking at the Moon”

JPMorgan, Mastercard, and UBS invest $65 million towards ConsenSys, a firm that develops Ethereum infrastructure

MicroStrategy purchases 253 BTC at a cost of $15M

Visa announces it will settle stablecoin transactions over Ethereum

Elon announces that you can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin

Morgan Stanley becomes the first major US Bank to offer clients access to Bitcoin

MicroStrategy purchases 262 BTC at a cost of $15M

MicroStrategy purchases 205 BTC at a cost of $10M

MicroStrategy purchases 328 BTC at a cost of $15M

MicroStrategy purchases 19,452 BTC at a cost of $1.026B

Bitcoin’s market cap crosses $1T for the first time

Jack Dorsey & Jay Z announce ₿trust to fund Bitcoin development in Africa and India

PlanB says he’s quit his job to focus on BTC research

Tesla announces through an SEC filing that they bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin

Dogecoin’s price spikes 40% after Elon Musk tweets “Dogecoin is the people’s crypto” and “no highs, no lows, only Doge”

MicroStrategy purchases 295 BTC at a cost of $10M

MicroStrategy purchases 314 BTC at a cost of $10M

MicroStrategy purchases 29,646 BTC at a cost of $650M

Dogecoin’s price increases 20% after Elon Musk tweets “One word: Doge”

MicroStrategy purchases 2,574 BTC at a cost of $50M

Robert Breedlove’s “What Is Money?” podcast premiers

Investor Stanley Druckenmiller likes Bitcoin

Investor Bill Miller strongly recommends Bitcoin

Ray Dalio says governments will “outaw” Bitcoin

The US Government announced they seized the 69k BTC in collaboration with Chainalysis

69,370 BTC tied to the Silk Road are moved

Lightning Labs releases Lightning Pool

PayPal announces support for buying, selling & holding crypto

Square Inc. announces that it invested $50M in 4,709 Bitcoin

John McAfee arrested in Spain on tax evasion

Jack Dorsey comes out as a Bitcoin maxi

MicroStrategy purchases 16,796 BTC at a cost of $175M

Peter Schiff flip flops and says he was “wrong on Bitcoin”

MicroStrategy makes their first Bitcoin purchase: 21,454 BTC at a cost of $250M

Jack Mallers announces Strike’s public beta

Polkadot launches

The 3rd Bitcoin Halving (25 → 12.5 → 6.25 BTC) $8,759.28

PlanB publishes “Bitcoin Stock-to-FLow Cross Asset Model” predicting $288k BTC

John McAfee announces his running for US President while in hiding

Peter Schiff announces via Twitter he’s lost all his BTC and “owning Bitcoin was a bad idea”

China’s National Development & Reform Commission removes Bitcoin mining from its list of undesirable/polluting industries

The president of China publicly states his support for “blockchain technology"

Jack Mallers announces lightning-enabled fiat ramps by Zap

Roger Ver’s Australian Visa is also denied

Justin Sun spends $4.6M to have lunch with Warren Buffett

Gerbz Launches BitLift as an eCommerce marketplace

China’s National Development & Reform Commission announces Bitcoin mining as a highly polluting industry

Craig Wright starts suing everyone who claimed he’s not Satoshi

PlanB publishes “Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity” AKA his “stock-to-flow model”, predicting $55k BTC after next halving

Anthony Pompliano releases his first episode of “The Pomp Podcast” – featuring guest Meltem Demirors

Peter Schiff says on Joe Rogan “BTC will plummet”

Erik Voorhees and Peter Schiff debate Bitcoin

CZ famously tweets, “Funds are safu!”

Justin Sun buys BitTorrent, Inc

Justin Sun announces TRON Mainnet launch

Warren Buffett says Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “probably rat poison squared.”

The Trezor Model T hardware wallet is released

Gregory Maxwell proposes Bitcoin’s taproot upgrade

Blockstream bids farewell to Gregory Maxwell

Ethereum becomes the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin

Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s founder, announces he has sold all his LTC

Mike Novogratz says big money is coming to Bitcoin and predicts a $10,000 BTC price by March 2018

Cardano is first released

People’s Bank of China (PBOC) orders Bitcoin exchanges to shut down

People’s Bank of China (PBOC) bans Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

John McAfee says “I will eat my dick on national television” if BTC price doesn’t reach $1M by 2020

Binance exchange launches

Elon Musk spends millions to buy back the X.com domain back from PayPal, citing “sentimental value”

Charles Hoskinson publishes “Why We Are Building Cardano”

Charlie Shrem joins Jaxx

Bitfinex announces it will be redeeming 100% of all BFX tokens in circulation making victims of the 2016 hack whole

Fred Ehrsam announces he’s leaving Coinbase

People’s Bank of China (PBOC) issues a warning to Chinese crypto exchanges and its citizens

Bitfinex issues BFX tokens to victims proportional to their loss and structures a deal with BnkToTheFuture to (eventually) buy them all back at 100% of their face value

Bitfinex halts trading as they discover 36% of funds (119,756 BTC) have been stolen

Olaf Carlson-Wee, Coinbase’s first employee, departs to form Polychain Capital

The 2nd Bitcoin Halving (25 → 12.5 BTC) $650.63

Jeff Garzik says Craig Wright’s evidence “could have been produced by anyone”

Gavin Andresen also says it’s “possible” he was “bamboozled” by Craig Wright

Gavin Andresen gets tricked into believing Craig Wright is Satoshi

Craig Wright posts on his blog that he is Satoshi

Craig Wright is investigated for tax evasion and his house is raided

The Bitcoin “Lightning Paper” is published

Forbes calls Craig Wright a liar too

Vice pokes holes in Craig Wright’s claims

Wired suggests Craig Wright might be Satoshi

Barry Silbert launches Digital Currency Group (DCG)

The EU declares “virtual currencies” currency, not property

Gemini goes live for trading

Ethereum launches, creating its “genesis block”

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, sentenced to double life imprisonment + 40 years

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, found guilty on all 7 charges

Roger Ver realizes he may have made a mistake and is no longer allowed in the US

Charlie Shrem sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement with Silk Road

Andreas Antonopoulos releases his book “Mastering Bitcoin” – one of the first major publications about cryptocurrency

Ledger Nano hardware wallet launches

Joseph Lubin founds ConsenSys

Blockstream founded by Bitcoin Core developers

Blockstream drops whitepaper titled, “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged SIdechains”

Hal Finney passes away due to complications from ALS

Jed McCaleb unveils Stellar to the world

The first Trezor hardware wallet, the Trezor Model One, is released

Bobby Lee is elected to the Bitcoin Foundation’s board

Gavin Wood coins the term “Web3”

Gavin Andresen steps down as Bitcoin's lead maintainer

The IRS declares “virtual currencies” property, not currency

Dorian Nakamoto goes on record saying “I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, nothing to do with developing.”

Newsweek claims to have uncovered Satoshi’s identity

Mt. Gox goes offline after document leaks alleging 744,408 BTC were stolen

Mt. Gox halts all withdrawals

Roger Ver renounces his US citizenship for the small Caribbean nation of St. Kitts, known for offshore banking

BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem is arrested for money laundering

Vitalik Buterin announces Ethereum on the bitcointalk.org forums

The Winklevoss Twins announce Gemini

Hodl goes viral

China’s biggest crypto exchange BTC China (BTCC) stops accepting yuan deposits

Dogecoin launches to much wow

People’s Bank of China (PBOC) prohibits banks from handling Bitcoin related transactions

Sales of Casascius coins containing BTC are suspended citing regulatory issues

The US Government discusses Bitcoin for the first time

Gerbz buys his first Bitcoin for $253

The first Bitcoin ATM launches in Canada

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road is arrested

Paradigm announces its $2.5 billion venture fund, the largest crypto fund to date

Satoshi Dice is sold in full to a private party and shareholders are paid 0.0035 BTC per share

Kraken’s public beta goes live

The 1st Bitcoin Halving (50 → 25 BTC) $12.35

Work begins on the first Trezor hardware wallet

Coinbase launches buying, selling, & storage service

Erik Voorhees “IPO’s” Satoshi Dice

The Peercoin whitepaper is released announcing the first Proof of Stake (POS) blockchain

Erik Voorhees announces Satoshi Dice

Charlie Lee launches Litecoin, “the silver to bitcoin’s gold”

Mike Caldwell announces releases the first Casascius (physical BTC) coins

Jesse Powell co-founds Kraken

Gavin Andresen presents Bitcoin to the CIA

Jed McCaleb shares an idea for “Bitcoin without mining” which eventually becomes Ripple

Gavin Adresen accepts an invitation to present Bitcoin to the CIA at CIA Headquarters

Satoshi sends his final email to Gavin Andresen

Forbes publishes it’s first article about Bitcoin

Jed McCaleb sells Mt. Gox to Mark Karpeles

Simon Dixon publishes the first book to include Bitcoin, ‘Bank To The Future – Protect Your Future Before Governments Go Bust’

Satoshi hands over control of the Bitcoin source code to Gavin Andresen

The first block is mined by a bitcoin mining pool, SlushPool

Satoshi posts his final message in the bitcointalk.org forums

The first Bitcoin mining pool, SlushPool, is announced

A bug results in 184 billion BTC being minted, leading to Bitcoin’s only hard fork

Jed McCaleb launches Mt. Gox

Gaven Andresen launches The Bitcoin Faucet giving 5 free BTC to anyone who requests

Jercos takes Lazlo up on his offer to sell 2 pizzas for 10k BTC, and Bitcoin Pizza Day is born

Lazlo Hanyecz offers 10k BTC for someone to buy him 2 pizzas

The first Bitcoin transaction: Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney

Hal Finney announces that he’s “Running Bitcoin”

Version 0.1 of the Bitcoin software is released

The Bitcoin Genesis Block Is Mined (50 BTC) $0

Satoshi announces Bitcoin

Wei Dai receives an email from Satoshi asking to cite b-money

Jack Dorsey posts the first Tweet ever: “just setting up my twttr”

Blockchain pioneer Nick Szabo proposes “bit gold”

Adam Back announces the proof-of-work system “hash cash” that will later be used by Bitcoin

David Chaum launches E-Cash

The first electronic payment via the internet is sent via David Chaum’s DigiCash

Nick Szabo coins the term “smart contract”

David Chaum releases the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol