👨‍💻 Big update Excited to announce a big update to @Bitcoin Calendar project. Bitcoin Calendar migrated to SQLite databse, which now allows to query events by tag, date, range, and so on. The project also now supports API calls (for inter-app communications for now), external API calls will become available in Q3. Next step – setting up own web archive to ensure no Bitcoin historical reference is ever lost. See additional info and support the project at bitcoin-calendar.org

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Bitcoin Calendar - Historical Events Timeline

Interactive calendar showcasing significant events, milestones, and historical moments in Bitcoin's journey. Explore the complete timeline of Bitco...

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On May 29, 2011, NY Times published an article by Richard Beales, in which he labeled #Bitcoin "A bubble that bursts when the abstract intellectual appeal fades would probably doom the otherwise creative idea.". 1BTC = $9 -

Some Faint Praise for Mr. Ballmer

David Einhorn’s critique of Steve Ballmer is on target even if he’s far from the only chief executive who has struggled to make the most of a f...

👨‍⚖️ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad. -

Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, sentenced to life in federal prison for creating, operating ‘Silk Road’ website

Ross Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced Friday in federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownersh...

The beauty of automation 💜

🗣️ Nick Szabo on Bitcoin On May 28, 2011, Bit gold author Nick Szabo commented on #Bitcoin in his blog: "Nakamoto improved a significant security shortcoming that my design had, namely by requiring a proof-of-work to be a node in the Byzantine-resilient peer-to-peer system to lessen the threat of an untrustworthy party controlling the majority of nodes and thus corrupting a number of important security features. Yet another feature obvious in hindsight, quite non-obvious in foresight."

Bitcoin, what took ye so long?

So asks gwern in a spectacular display of hindsight. The short answer about why it took so long is that the bit gold/Bitcoin ideas were now...

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Part IV: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

Digital currency, a cash for the internet, was always a central goal for the Cypherpunks. But few dived into the subject matter like Nick Szabo did.

💸 First eCash Payment On May 27, 1994, at the first World Wide Web conference in Geneva, David Chaum made the first payment using electronic cash and computer networks. [cite: 20] 🗃️: Media: References:- https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-27-94-World_s-first-electronic-cash-payment-over-computer-networks.pdf

🇮🇷 Iran Bans Bitcoin Mining On May 26, 2021, Iranian authorities banned #bitcoin #mining. The decision was likely caused by frequent power blackouts in the country and, according to the president, a high percentage of unlicensed miners.

Decrypt

Iran Bans Bitcoin Mining to Avoid Summer Power Blackouts

The ban on Bitcoin mining, which kicks off today, is set to last four months and follows rolling blackouts in major cities last week.

📈 First Bitcoin Chart The first known Bitcoin chart. May 2010. 1 BTC = $0.03.

🤡 Faketoshi Day May 25, 2020, marks the ignominious failure of Craig Steven Wright, the infamous liar and impersonator of Satoshi Nakamoto (often referred to as #Faketoshi). On May 25, 2020, owners of coins mined just 37 days after the genesis block signed a message with 145 private keys stating: "Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud". 1

Wayback Machine

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💊 Ray Dalio Holds Bitcoin On May 24, 2021, at the Consensus 2021 conference, Ray Dalio revealed that he was a #bitcoin holder.

The Block

Ray Dalio confirms BTC holdings, says

The billionaire investor also sees U.S. monetary hegemony slipping in the face of China

Just finished working on another important step of the Bitcoin Calendar project development: Bitcoin Calendar Bot is now available as a docker container. This will ensure smooth development of the project moving forward as the final app will include multiple moving parts - from the Nostr Bot itself to a self-hosted archive, website, API endpoints and more. To find out more and support the project please follow the links below. https://github.com/Bitcoin-Calendar/calendar-bot

Bitcoin Calendar

Bitcoin Calendar - Historical Events Timeline

Interactive calendar showcasing significant events, milestones, and historical moments in Bitcoin's journey. Explore the complete timeline of Bitco...

🏙️ New York Disagreement Day The Bitcoin scaling agreement, better known as the "New York Agreement", jointly proposed by over 50 companies at the Consensus 2017 conference, added fuel to the "block size war" in 2017. The New York Agreement was intended to end the long-standing debate about #Bitcoin #scaling by increasing block capacity through the activation of Segregated Witness and doubling the block size (i.e., SegWit2X). Read more about these events in Jonathan Bier's book:

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🍕 Bitcoin Pizza Day On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first purchase of a physical item using #Bitcoin, buying two pizzas from Jeremy Sturdivant for 10,000 bitcoins. At the time of the transaction, 10,000 bitcoins were valued at $41. Don't forget to celebrate today's holiday with a slice of #pizza!

Pizza for bitcoins?

Pizza for bitcoins?

🇨🇳 China Bans Bitcoin Mining On May 21, 2021, the Chinese government banned #Bitcoin #mining and #trading. 1 BTC = $29,000

刘鹤主持召开国务院金融稳定发展委员会第五十一次会议_滚动新闻_中国政府网

会议指出，金融系统坚决贯彻党中央、国务院决策部署，加大对实体经济的支持力度，稳健的货币政策灵活适度...

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On May 21, 2013, "OUI Share" magazine published an article suggesting that, according to prominent economists, the end of #Bitcoin was near and it would soon be replaced by a better "human-based digital currency" (whatever that means). 1 BTC = $122.30

OuiShare

Game over, Bitcoin. Long live human-based currencies!

Since Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed It is now time to build the next level of the monetary revolution: a truly human-based digital monetary system.

📈 Bitcoin > $30 Billion On May 20, 2017, #Bitcoin's market capitalization exceeded $30 billion for the first time. 1 BTC = $1,807.37 https://web.archive.org/web/20170520155806/https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

🗣️ Satoshi on Messages via Bitcoin On May 20, 2010, Satoshi explains why the #Bitcoin network does not provide the ability to attach encrypted messages to payments.

We accept Bitcoins [moved to bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade]

We accept Bitcoins [moved to bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade]

🤡 Bitcoin Skepticism On May 19, 2017, influential financial advisor John Lohr warned his followers against buying #bitcoin: "In my opinion, Monopoly money is safer."

99 Bitcoins

Bitcoins - Are You Kidding Me?

Is it a good investment? Stanford and Princeton say bitcoin has volatility seven times greater ? ?Bitcoins ? Are You Kidding Me?? ? Seeking Alpha |...

Hey @The Fishcake (nostr.build) , did you know that the venue where @Edward Snowden gave a talk to a couple dozen residents of Hawaii on encryption and how to use Internet anonymously, just 6 months before he shared the docs on NSA surveillance with the world, was called “Fishcake”?

👨‍🏫 Antonopoulos's Enthusiasm On May 18, 2013, Andreas Antonopoulos gives a lecture on #Bitcoin to 4 listeners. 1 BTC = $112.80