Events

On January 15, 2010, the first Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinmarket was founded, allowing users to trade Bitcoin for fiat currency.

On February 8, 2021, Tesla announced its purchase of $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, significantly impacting the market.

On February 18, 2018,  eight years after buying the famous Bitcoin pizza for 10 000 BTC, Laszlo Hanyecz paid for the first pizza via the Lightning Network. This time, however, for far less BTC in return.

On March 17, 2010, BitcoinMarket.com, the first Bitcoin exchange, went live. At the time, Bitcoin was trading at USD 0.03 per BTC.

Ross Ulbricht was born in Austin, Texas, on March 27, 1984. In February 2011, the programmer founded the darknet marketplace Silk Road, which was the first major use case for Bitcoin as a means of payment. He is serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013.

According to his profile on the P2P Foundation forum, the inventor of Bitcoin was born on April 5, 1975.

On April 16, 2014,  the largest Bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt. Gox, was bankrupt and had to be liquidated.

On April 20, 2020, the fourth Bitcoin halving took place, halving the block subsidy from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC.

On April 23, 2011, Satoshi wrote one of his last emails. He let Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn know that he had moved on to other things. From: Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:40 PM To: Mike Hearn mike@plan99.net Subject: Re: Holding coins in an unspendable state for a rolling time window I had a...

On May 11, 2020, the third Bitcoin halving took place, halving the block subsidy from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC.

Bitcoin Pizza Day commemorates the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin when Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two pizzas for 10,000 BTC on May 22, 2010.

On June 9, 2021, the government of El Salvador passed the law that makes Bitcoin an official means of payment. The law came into force just under three months later.