bitcoin

On February 9, 2011, Bitcoin reached the equivalent of one US dollar on the Mt. Gox trading platform for the first time.

On January 5, 1979, Ralph Merkle was granted a patent for the invention of 'Merkle Trees,' a fundamental component in blockchain technology.

On January 8, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin v0.1, the first implementation of the Bitcoin software, via a mailing list for cryptographers.

On 19 February 2021, Bitcoin broke the one trillion US dollar mark in market capitalization for the first time. BTC was trading at around USD 53,600 at the time.

On February 24, 2010, the first known commercial Bitcoin transaction occurred, marking a key milestone in Bitcoin's history. Already on January 24, 2010, a few months before Laszlo Hanyecz's famous Bitcoin pizza, the user "Sabunir" posted a request on the bitcointalk forum asking if anyone would like to purchase a picture he created for 500...

On July 9, 2016, the second Bitcoin halving took place, halving the block subsidy from 25 to 12.5 BTC.

Date: August 1, 2017 August 1, 2017 saw the culmination of the Blocksize Wars. Bitcoin Cash split off as a hard fork with the industry and well-known people behind it in order to be able to scale using larger blocks in the main network. But people opted for Bitcoin as it is today to ensure...