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<h1>History of bitcoin</h1>
<h2>A timeline that shows bitcoin History from the idea all the way to present day.</h2>
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<div>
<section class="year">
<h3>2007</h3>
<section>
<ul>
<li>Satoshi Nakamoto began working on the Bitcoin concept.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2008</h3>
<section>
<h4>August</h4>
<ul>
<li>Neal Kin, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry file an application for an encryption patent application.</li>
<li>Bitcoin.org was registered at <a href="https://anonymousspeech.com/">anonymousspeech.com</a>.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>October</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nakamoto describes the Bitcoin currency and solves the problem of double spending.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Bitcoin project is registered on <a href="https://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge.net</a>.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2009</h3>
<section>
<h4>January</h4>
<ul>
<li>Block 0 is established.</li>
<li>Version 0.1 of Bitcoin is released.</li>
<li>The first Bitcoin transaction.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>October</h4>
<ul>
<li>An exchange rate is established.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.2 is released.</li>
<li>The difficulty increases.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2010</h3>
<section>
<h4>February</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Bitcoin Market is established as a Bitcoin currency exchange.</li>
<li>Encryption patent is published.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>May</h4>
<ul>
<li>The first real-world transaction using 10,000 BTC spent on pizza.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>July</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.3 released.</li>
<li>In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from <span class="price">$0.008</span> to <span class="price">$0.08</span> for 1 bitcoin.</li>
<li>The MtGox Bitcoin currency exchange market is established.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>August</h4>
<ul>
<li>Exploit generates 184 billion Bitcoins.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>October</h4>
<ul>
<li>Financial task force issues warning.</li>
<li>The first public version of an OpenCL miner is released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>Market cap exceeds $1 million USD.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoind compiled for Nokia N900.</li>
<li>First mobile Bitcoin transaction.</li>
<li>Difficulty increases.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2011</h3>
<section>
<h4>January</h4>
<ul>
<li>Silk Road opens for business.</li>
<li>25% of total Bitcoins generated.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>February</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin reaches parity with US dollar.</li>
<li><a href="https://weusecoins.com/">WeUseCoins.com</a> is created.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>March</h4>
<ul>
<li>Second largest decrease in difficulty.</li>
<li>Britcoin opens for trading.</li>
<li>Bitcoin Brasil opens.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>April</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin passes parity with Euro.</li>
<li>Difficulty surpasses 100,000.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>June</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin Market drops PayPal.</li>
<li>The largest percentage price decrease to-date became known as the Great Bubble of 2011. Top of bubble at <span class="price">$31.</span></li>
<li>WikiLeaks starts accepting Bitcoin.</li>
<li>Major breach of security at MtGox.</li>
<li>Difficulty passes 1 million.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>August</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin Conference and World Expo in New York City, NY.</li>
<li>P2Pool mines its first block.</li>
<li>Back-to-back drop in difficulty.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>September</h4>
<ul>
<li>Casascius coins mint physical Bitcoins.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin & Future Technology European Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li><span class="price">$2</span> minimum price after the first price drop.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2012</h3>
<section>
<h4>September</h4>
<ul>
<li>London 2012 Bitcoin Conference.</li>
<li>Bitcoin Foundation begins.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li>Slowly rising for a year. Price at <span class="price">$13.</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2013</h3>
<section>
<h4>February</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.8 released.</li>
<li>Bitcoin goes up to <span class="price">$30.</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>March</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin spikes to $74.90.</li>
<li>Market cap reaches $1 billion.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>April</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin surpasses <span class="price">$100.</span></li>
<li>Price hits an all-time high of <span class="price">$266.</span></li>
<li>Bitcoin Central is hacked.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>May</h4>
<ul>
<li>First Bitcoin ATM unveiled.</li>
<li>Bitcoin Central gets hacked again.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>October</h4>
<ul>
<li>FBI shuts down Silk Road.</li>
<li>Bitcoin price drops from <span class="price">$139</span> to <span class="price">$109.71</span> in less than three hours after Silk Road closure, recovers.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin price surges to a new all-time record of <span class="price">$1242.</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li>Price crashed to <span class="price">$600</span>, rebounded to <span class="price">$1000</span>, crashed again to the <span class="price">$500</span> range. Stabilized in between.</li>
<li>China's Central Bank bans Bitcoin transactions.</li>
<li>The network exceeded 10 petahash/sec.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2014</h3>
<section>
<h4>January</h4>
<ul>
<li>Price spiked to <span class="price">$1000</span>, then settled in the <span class="price">$800–$900</span>range.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>March</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.9 released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>June</h4>
<ul>
<li>The network exceeded 100 petahash/sec.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>December</h4>
<ul>
<li>Microsoft began to accept bitcoin to buy Xbox games and Windows apps.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2015</h3>
<section>
<h4>February</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.10 released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>July</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.11 released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>2015 record high of <span class="price">$504.</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2016</h3>
<section>
<h4>January</h4>
<ul>
<li>Price at <span class="price">$1150</span> per bitcoin.</li>
<li>Price fell 30% in a week, reaching a multi-month low of <span class="price">$750.</span></li>
<li>The network exceeded 1 exahash/sec.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>February</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.12 released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>April</h4>
<ul>
<li>Steam started accepting bitcoin as payment.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>August</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.13 released.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>September</h4>
<ul>
<li>There are 770 bitcoin ATMs worldwide.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2017</h3>
<section>
<h4>March</h4>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.14 released.</li>
<li>The price of 1 bitcoin surpassed the spot price of an ounce of gold for the first time.</li>
<li>The number of GitHub projects related to bitcoin passed 10,000.</li>
<li>Price traded above <span class="price">$1290.</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>April</h4>
<ul>
<li>Japan Declares Bitcoin as Legel Tender</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>August</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin "splits" into Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h4>November</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin for the first time hit <span class="price">$10,000</span></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section class="year">
<h3>2019</h3>
<section>
<h4>Today</h4>
<ul>
<li>At the moment, one bitcoin cost:
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<div class="usd"></div>.
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</li>
</ul>
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