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Wei Dai's announcement of Disperse/Collect version 1.0 on the Cypherpunks mailing list. This post explicitly references 'my own Crypto++ library,' confirming that Dai was not only a theorist but an active, prolific coder who built and shipped software. This context is essential for understanding why he later chose not to implement b-money.
Wei Dai's original announcement of b-money on the Cypherpunks mailing list. Notably, b-money was mentioned as a secondary item alongside PipeNet 1.1 — an anonymous routing protocol that was Dai's primary focus. The b-money proposal that would later inspire Bitcoin was introduced in a single sentence at the end of this post.
Satoshi Nakamoto registered the 'bitcoin' project on SourceForge.net, establishing the first public repository and project page for Bitcoin's source code and releases.
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block (Block 0) of the Bitcoin blockchain, embedding the now-famous headline from The Times: 'Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.'
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.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on January 10, 2009 (PST) / January 11, 2009 (UTC), the same day the Bitcoin v0.1 software was publicly released. He was the first person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.
Hal Finney's famous tweet 'Running bitcoin' - marking him as the first known person besides Satoshi to run the Bitcoin software. The next day, he received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi.
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 sold 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal — the first known exchange of Bitcoin for fiat currency. The transaction established a real-world price of approximately $0.001 per BTC.
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.
Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas — the first purchase of a physical good with Bitcoin. The transaction, completed on May 22, 2010, is celebrated annually as 'Bitcoin Pizza Day.' At the time, 10,000 BTC was worth approximately $41.
Slashdot, one of the most influential technology news sites at the time, published an article about Bitcoin v0.3. The resulting 'Slashdot effect' caused a massive surge in downloads and new users, marking Bitcoin's first significant mainstream tech media exposure.
An integer overflow bug (CVE-2010-5139) was exploited to create 184,467,440,737.09551616 BTC in a single transaction in Block 74638. Satoshi Nakamoto published a fix within 5 hours, and the corrected chain overtook the invalid chain within 15 hours — the most serious crisis in Bitcoin's history.
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'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 announces he has moved on to other things.
The Bitcoin Forum, originally set up by Martti Malmi at bitcoin.org/smf using Simple Machines Forum (SMF) software, migrated to the independent domain bitcointalk.org in August 2011. The migration was managed by forum administrator Theymos (Michael Marquardt) and preserved all existing posts, threads, and user accounts.
Bitcoin researcher Sergio Demian Lerner published 'The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto,' identifying a distinctive mining pattern (later named 'Patoshi') in Bitcoin's earliest blocks. The analysis linked approximately 22,000 blocks (~1.1 million BTC) to a single miner presumed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Virtually none of these coins have ever been spent.