A Brief Story of Bitcoin

2008.11.1 Bitcoin white paper released

Bitcoin first time mentioned by Satoshi Nakamoto in <Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System>

2009.1.4 Genesis block created

New version Bitcoin trading system set it as number 0 block

2009.1.12 First bitcoin transaction

100 bitcoin sent to developers, cryptographic Hal Finney，50 bitcoin as reward

2009.10.5  $ = 1309.03 BTC

2009.12.30 Mining difficulty first time increase.

To maintain the constant speed of mining at 10 mins per block, difficulty is adjusted

2010. 7.12 First time prices violently fluctuated

0.008$/BTC - 0.080$/BTC GPU mining start

2011.6.29 Bitcoin wallet

Bitpay launch the first mobile pay electric bitcoin wallet

2011.7 Unsettled case

the third biggest BTC exchange Bitomat announced they lost the permission to read Wallet.dat which means they lost totally 17,000 BTC hold on behalf of clients.

2012.8.14 Suomen Pankin verkkopalvelu admit legitimacy of Bitcoin

2012.9.27 Bitcoin Community founded

2012.11.28 The first halving reward from 50 to 25 bitcoins

2013.10.25 FBI new millionaire of bitcoin

2013.11.29 Bitcoin value first time exceed Gold

1242$/BTC    1241.98$/oz

2013.12.5 中国五部委 issues 《关于防范比特币风险的通知》, bitcoin price dropped. RMB-power service ceased. Bitcoin dropped to 2011 RMB.

2014.12.11 Microsoft accepts Bitcoin pay

2015.12.16 Bitcoin security issued

2016.7.20 Bitcoin second halving reward

2017. 2 The People's Bank Of China testing cryptocurrency

2017.9.20 China's bitcoin crackdown forces exchanges to close. The price is crashing

2018.6.11 The price is crashing again

A Brief Story of Bitcoin

2018.5 CCID issued ranking on 31 cryptocurrency

BTC drop to No.17

However, 2018 Blockchain and Initial Coin Offering Investment already exceeds 2017 total

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$363 million raised by brokerage app provider Robinhood, raised to expand its crypto trading platform to all 50 U.S. states

$250 million raised by blockchain banking tech developer Revolut

$110 million raised by peer-to-peer payments company Circle

$77 million raised by cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Ledger

$65 million raised by Paxos to scale its blockchain platform

$38 million raised by Harbor for its tokenized compliance platform for private securities trading