Date: August 10, 2020 On August 10, 2020, the US software company MicroStrategy announced its decision to adopt Bitcoin as a primary treasury reserve asset. Founded by Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy became the first publicly traded company to invest in Bitcoin, marking a significant milestone in corporate adoption of the cryptocurrency.
Date: August 18, 2008 On August 18, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto registered the domain bitcoin.org.
Date: August 20, 2011 On August 20, 2011, the first Bitcoin conference took place in New York.
Date: August 21, 2021 The formula ∞/21,000,000, popular within the Bitcoin community, suggests that Bitcoin's value could rise infinitely, assuming continual increases in human productivity. This concept is based on the idea that the total value of all goods divided by the approximately 21 million units of BTC would ultimately represent Bitcoin's worth as a...
Date: August 28, 2014 On August 28, 2014, the renowned cypherpunk Hal Finney passed away after battling the severe neurological disease ALS. Finney was a pioneering figure in the Bitcoin community and notably the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction, sent by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Date: September 7, 2021 On September 7, 2021, El Salvador introduced Bitcoin as an official means of payment, making it the first country to take this step.
Date: October 1, 2013 On October 1, 2013, the FBI arrested Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. On the anniversary of the arrest, the freedom community draws attention to the arguably inappropriate sentence for the man behind the free internet marketplace.
Date: October 29, 2013 On October 29, 2013, the world's first Bitcoin ATM was launched in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada.
Date: October 31, 2008 On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the nine-page Bitcoin Whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list metzdowd.com.
Date: November 1, 2010 On November 1, 2010, a user named "bitboy" posted his design for the Bitcoin logo on the bitcointalk forum. His royalty-free logo was met with enthusiasm and became the logo for Satoshi Nakamoto's creation.
Date: November 4, 2010 On 4 November 2010, Bitcoin cracked the market capitalization of one million US dollars for the first time. At the time, one BTC was worth just under 0.40 US dollars.
Date: November 8, 2022 On November 8, 2022, there was a bank run on FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges at the time. It turned out that FTX had been re-lending customer deposits and the exchange filed for bankruptcy shortly afterwards.