2012

March

• 03-01 Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.

April

• 04-01 Pay-to-script-hash (P2SH) as defined through BIP 0016 goes live.

May

• 05-08 A single service, Satoshi Dice becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.

June

• 06-03 Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3), is block 181919¹ with 1322 transactions².

July

• 07-22 One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial Bitcoin Forum ³.

September

• 09-15 Bitcoin Conference in London ⁴.

• 09-27 Formation of the Bitcoin Foundation.

November

• 11-28 Halving day. Block 210,000⁵ is the first with a block reward subsidy of only 25 BTC.

Art piece by FractalEncrypt

December

• 12-06 First Bitcoin exchange licensed “as a bank” in europe (actually a PSP which is like a bank, without debt-money issuing).

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1. mempool.space ↩

2. bitcointalk.org: Largest block to date ↩

3. bitcointalk.org: Topic about one millionth forum post ↩

4. London Conference 2012 ↩

5. mempool.space ↩