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✍️ Executive Order 6102 During the Great Depression, on April 5, 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, effectively confiscating gold bullion and coins from individuals and organizations. On this day, we celebrate the *fictional* birthday of Satoshi Nakamoto – April 5, 1975. The date holds symbolic significance—this order remained in effect until 1975. image https://bitcoin-calendar.org/en/events/1933-04-05/executive-order-6102
🥳 Satoshi's Birthday On this day, we celebrate Satoshi's birthday. April 5, 1975, was the birthdate Satoshi provided when registering on the P2P Foundation. The date holds symbolic meaning — April 5th coincides with the date of issuance of Executive Order 6102, which banned private ownership of gold, while 1975 marks the year the order was repealed. https://bitcoin-calendar.org/en/events/1975-04-05/satoshis-birthday
👨‍💻 P2SH Goes Live Bitcoin got smarter on April 1, 2012, at block 173,805 — P2SH went live. Instead of locking coins to a single key, it let users send funds to a script hash. The spending rules? Hidden until needed, enabling multisig wallets and more flexible transactions. Visit 21ideas.org to find out more about P2SH and other Bitcoin address types. https://bitcoin-calendar.org/en/events/2012-04-01/p2sh-goes-live
👮‍♂️ Corruption in the Silk Road Case The Bitcoin underworld wasn't just Silk Road—on March 30, 2015, two DEA agents investigating the case were arrested for stealing bitcoin. One moved $800,000 in BTC to his personal MtGox account; the other extorted funds while secretly working for a crypto exchange. Force has pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin with SilkRoad. He was also accused of secretly working for the CoinMKT exchange, using his DEA authority to remove clients' funds from the exchange and then using a subpoena to payment firm Venmo to try to unfreeze his frozen assets. image https://bitcoin-calendar.org/en/events/2015-03-30/corruption-in-the-silk-road-case