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Timeline (BitCoin)
1715 – 1746 Tominaga Nakamoto – Philosopher – 8 Members
1723 – 1790 Adam Smith – Economist – 8 Members
1881 – 1973 Mises – Economist – 7 Members
1883 – 1946 John Maynard Keynes Economist Cambridge, UK – 5 Members
1899 – 1992 Friedrich A. Hayek – Economist – 6 Members
1905 – 1982 Ayn Rand – Philosophy – 26 Members
1912 – 1954 Alan Turing – Matematician – 12 Members
1912 – 2006 Milton Friedman – Economist – 7 Members
1916 – 2001 Claude Shannon – Matematician – 7 Members
1918 – 2013 David Rees – Matematician Satoshi? – 34 Members
1939 George Gilder – Economist – 19 Members
1944 Whitfield Diffie – Matematician – 7 Members
1945 Martin Hellman – Matematician – 8 Members
1952 Ralph C. Merkle – Matematician – 5 Members
1951 – 2018 Tim May Cypher – 8 Members
1961 Lawrence Lessig “Code is Law” Cypher USA – 7 Members
1967 – 2013 Dave Kleiman Satoshi? – 33 Members
– 1974 Robert E. Kahn / Vint Cerf TCP/IP = Internet
– 1976 Whitfield Diffie / Martin Hellman / New Directions in Cryptography
– 1978 RSA Public Key Cryptosystem
– 1979: Hash tree
1980: public key cryptography
– 1980 Ralph Merkle Protocols Cryptosystems
– 1981 David Chaum Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses
– 1982 Murray Rothbard The Ethics of Liberty
– 1983 David Chaum Blind Signatures
David Chaum 1983 eCash – Firma ciega Cypher – 16 Members
– 1985 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
– 1988 Timothy C. May The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
– 1989 David Chauman DigiCash
– 1991 Phil Zimmermann
– 1991 Haber / Stornetta How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
Scott Stornetta 1991 Cypher – 6 Members
– 1991 Schnorr sigs patent
– 1992/1993 Proof-of-work for spam
– 1992 / 1993 Eric Hugues A Cyperherpunk’s Manifesto
– 1992 Cypherpunk Founded
– 1994 CyberCash
– 1994 Timothy C. May
– 1996 E-Gold
– 1996 NSA How To Make A Mint
– 1997 Adam Back HashCash
Adam Back 1997 Hashcash Cypher – 13 Members
– 1997 Nick Szabo Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
– 1998 Nick Szabo Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority
– 1998 Bit Gold
1998, a Hawaiian resident named Bernard von NotHaus began fabricating silver and gold coins that he dubbed Liberty Dollars. Nine years later, 2007 the U.S. government charged NotHaus with “conspiracy against the United States.”
– 1998 Wei Dai B-Money
Wei Dai 1998 B-Money Cypher – 9 Members
1998 Ian Grigg – Financial Cryptography Cypher – 24 Members
– 1999 Dot Com Bubble
1999 The “anti-security movement”
– 1999 Peer-to-peer (P2P)
– 1999 Byzantine fault tolerance
– 2000 Hash Trees
– 2001 Bram Cohen BitTorrent
– 2001 Distributed Hash Tables
– 2001: SHA-256 finalized
– 2002 SHA-2
– 2004 Hal Finney / Reusable Proofs of Work
Hal Finney (1956 – 2014) 2004 RPOW – Reusable Proofs of Work – 12 Members
What The Hack was an outdoor hacker conference held in Liempde, Netherlands between the 28th and 31st of July, 2005. What the Hack was an event in a sequence that began with the Galactic Hacker Party in 1989, followed by Hacking at the End
2005 Bit Gold Nick Szabo Cypher – 16 Members
2007, the federal government filed charges against e
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1998 November 26 – Wei Dai describes b-money.
2002 August 01 – Adam Back publishes Hashcash, which would later be used in bitcoin mining.
2002 December 09 – An unidentified cypherpunk describes a “virtual coin” on a UK finance newsgroup.
2007 Date unknown – Satoshi Nakamoto begins developing Bitcoin.
2008 August 18 – The bitcoin.org domain name is registered.
2008 August 22 – Satoshi Nakamoto contacts Wei Dai after a referral from Adam Back.
2008 October 31 – The Bitcoin white paper is published by Satoshi.
2008 November 09 – The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.
2009 January 03 – The genesis block is established by Satoshi Nakamoto.
2009 January 09 – Bitcoin v0.1 is released on the cryptography mailing list and mining begins.
2009 January 11 – Block 78 is the first to be mined by a known individual other than Satoshi.
2009 January 12 – The first transaction occurs between Satoshi and Hal Finney.
2009 October 05 – New Liberty Standard publishes the earliest exchange rates based on cost of production.
2009 December 12 – Satoshi releases Bitcoin v0.2.
2009 December 30 – The difficulty adjusts for the first time, rising from 1 to 1.18 on block 32256.
2012 nov. 28 – Halving day 2012 (November 28, 2012) was the day of the first subsidy halving, which occurred when block 210000 was solved. Until block 420000, the block reward would be 25 BTC instead of the original 50 BTC.
2016 01 15 former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn left the Bitcoin community and industry with a highly controversial blog post entitled “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment.”
At the moment before the halving, 10,500,000 BTC had been mined, 50% of the target cap.
The block was solved by a Radeon HD 5800 after mining for less than a week. This GPU would later be sold to Chaang Noi at a significant markup on August 26, 2013. Several images of the card were posted to Bitmit, but no copies are currently known to exist.
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