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2017

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February

March

April

May

  • 05-15 First Release of Joinmarket by Adam Gibson, a CoinJoin implementation aimed at improving the privacy and fungibility of bitcoin transactions.

  • 05-23 NY Disagreement Day - The “New York Agreement” was reached on this day in 2017 that began the fork wars in earnest with the initiation of the SegWit2X proposal.1

June

  • 06-020 The bitcoin symbol was encoded in Unicode version 10.0 at position U+20BF (₿) in the Currency Symbols block.2

July

August

  • 08-01 Bitcoin Independence Day The official end of the Blocksize Wars.

  • 08-08 SegWit Lock-in Day Segregated Witness is officially locked in by the UASF client on the Bitcoin network.

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  • 08-18 “This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete” Nicolas Dorier pledges to make Bitpay obsolete.

  • 08-23 Activation Day! SegWit activated on Bitcoin mainnet at block height 481,824 at 1:57 UTC. the SegWit soft fork was a success!

September

  • 09-29 BTCPayserver v1.0.0.0 released on GitHub by Nicolas Dorier”

November

  • 11-07 NO2X Day! The SegWit2X supporters finally throw in the towel just a week before the date of activation.3

  • 11-29 1 BTC is worth 10,000$ for the first time.

December

  • 12-01 Dhruv Bansal - Why It’s Hard to “Get” Bitcoin.

  • 12-06 Steam announced that it would no longer accept bitcoin as payment for its products, citing slow transactions speeds, price volatility, and high fees for transactions.4

  • 12-17 Bitcoin Valued at US$20,000.


  1. The Blocksize War Chapter 18: New York Agreement

  2. Unicode 10.0.0.” Unicode Consortium. 

  3. The Blocksize War Chapter 20: SegWit2x

  4. Liao, Shannon: “Steam no longer accepting bitcoin due to ‘high fees and volatility’”. The Verge. 

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