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Wei Dai announces b-money on the Cypherpunks list as a brief addendum to PipeNet 1.1, pointing readers to his eskimo.com page — the proposal later cited as reference [1] in the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Adam Back reposts the full text of Wei Dai's b-money proposal to the Cypherpunks list, with comments to follow — the message that opened the December 1998 b-money design discussion.
Hal Finney's tweet, the first known reference to running Bitcoin from a machine other than Satoshi's, posted the day Bitcoin v0.1 was released.
NewLibertyStandard proposes adopting the Thai baht currency symbol ฿ as the official Bitcoin currency symbol and BTC as the three-letter currency code — the notation that became standard.
Gavin Andresen publicly announces taking on active project management for Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing, creating the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub staging tree and proposing a development process.
March 25, 2014 Forbes feature by Andy Greenberg visiting Hal and Fran Finney in Temple City, examining the Hal-as-Satoshi geographic theory and publishing the April 18, 2009 race-day alibi photos.
Adam Back announces Hashcash to the Cypherpunks list — a proof-of-work postage scheme against spam, framed within the digital-cash discourse as a stop-gap or fallback for digicash.
Adam Back replies to Wei Dai on Cypherpunks, identifying seven monetary-design issues in b-money and proposing Hashcash as the minting mechanism — a substantive analysis ten years before Bitcoin.
After Len Sassaman's death (July 3, 2011), security researcher Dan Kaminsky embedded an ASCII-art tribute into the Bitcoin blockchain, announced July 30 and revealed at Black Hat USA 2011.
In September 2010, Satoshi privately tells Andresen he is working on other projects — the earliest documented signal of his intent to step back. He soon handed Andresen the repository and alert key.
Gavin Andresen announces on BitcoinTalk topic 2367 he is taking over active project management of Bitcoin with Satoshi's blessing. Same day, he creates the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub repo.
Statistical analysis of Satoshi's Bitcoin source (v0.1.0–v0.3.19): coding-style fingerprint, commit times suggesting EST/CST, growth from 19,901 to 31,909 lines over 23 months, final-commit traits.
Complete record of all four developers who had commit access to Bitcoin's SourceForge SVN repository. 252 revisions were recorded from August 30, 2009 to September 13, 2011.
Bitcoin's migration from SourceForge SVN to GitHub, and the chronological record of developers who received commit access to the GitHub repository in 2011.
Wei Dai announces Disperse/Collect 1.0 on the Cypherpunks list, built from his own Crypto++ library. Confirms he was an active coder, relevant to why he later chose not to implement b-money.
Wei Dai announces b-money on the Cypherpunks list as a secondary item alongside PipeNet 1.1, his primary focus. The proposal later cited in Bitcoin appears in a single sentence at the end of the post.
The Bitcoin Forum, set up by Martti Malmi at bitcoin.org/smf, migrates to the independent bitcointalk.org domain in August 2011. Theymos managed the migration; all posts and accounts were preserved.
Sergio Demian Lerner published The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi, identifying a distinctive mining pattern (later named Patoshi) linking ~22,000 blocks (~1.1M BTC) to a single miner.
The first person-to-person Bitcoin transaction in history. Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney in Block 170, confirming that Bitcoin's peer-to-peer electronic cash system worked as designed.
Martti Malmi sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal — the first known Bitcoin-to-fiat exchange, establishing a real-world price of ~$0.001 per BTC.
Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas — the first purchase of a physical good with Bitcoin. Completed May 22, 2010 and celebrated annually as Bitcoin Pizza Day. ~$41 at the time.
Slashdot, an influential tech news site at the time, publishes an article about Bitcoin v0.3. The Slashdot effect causes a surge in downloads — Bitcoin's first major mainstream tech media exposure.
An integer overflow bug (CVE-2010-5139) was exploited to create 184 billion BTC in Block 74638. Satoshi published a fix within 5 hours; the corrected chain overtook the invalid one within 15 hours.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on the day Bitcoin v0.1 was released (January 10/11, 2009). He was the first known person other than Satoshi to run it.
Satoshi Nakamoto registered the 'bitcoin' project on SourceForge.net, establishing the first public repository and project page for Bitcoin's source code and releases.
Bitcoin's first block contains a Times bank-bailout headline — Satoshi's only personal voice inside the design, etched in the system's most permanent place. A reading of why he chose it.
Satoshi's last known private email. He transfers the Bitcoin network alert key to Gavin Andresen, asks him to stop portraying him as a 'mysterious shadowy figure,' and says he has moved on.
Laszlo Hanyecz posts his famous offer to pay 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, leading to the first known real-world Bitcoin transaction on May 22, 2010 — now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Bitcoin v0.3.19 was released on SourceForge as Satoshi Nakamoto's final release, adding DoS protections and removing safe mode alerts before his departure.
Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin v0.1, the first public release of the Bitcoin software, on SourceForge. This Windows-only release made it possible for anyone to run a Bitcoin node and mine coins.