2009

January

• 01-03 Genesis block established¹ at 18:15:05 GMT

• 01-09 Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the cryptography mailing list². Hal Finney tweets “Running bitcoin” the following day³.

• 01-12 First Bitcoin transaction, in block 170 - from Satoshi to Hal Finney⁴.

March

• 03-08 Bitcoin Wikipedia page created⁵.

May

• 05-08 Announcement of Bitcoin on Reddit⁶

October

• 10-05 Exchange rates published⁷ by New Liberty Standard. $1 = 1,309.03 BTC (and theymos⁸ thought NLS was overcharging⁹)

• 10-09 #bitcoin-dev channel registered on freenode IRC.

December

• 12-16 Bitcoin v0.2 released

• 12-30 First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT

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1. mempool.space ↩

2. Mail archive ↩

3. Twitter ↩

4. First block with a spend ↩

5. Wikipedia ↩

6. Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency. ↩

7. Newlibertystandard. ↩

8. en.bitcoin.it/wiki ↩

9. bitcointalk.org ↩