🇸🇻 Bitcoin Law Passed in El Salvador On June 9, 2021, El Salvador's parliament voted to adopt #Bitcoin as legal tender in the country. "The Bitcoin Law" was passed by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, giving #bitcoin the status of legal tender within El Salvador after 7 September that year. https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/3206fe295725f6e60cbbd25dd8a6abcf3db7cf149bd0914d04ada72d7394de11.pdf

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On June 8, 2015, The Washington Post published an article titled "Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme". Parker Lewis's article explains why #Bitcoin is neither.

Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme - The Washington Post

Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme

👮‍♂️ DOJ Confiscates $2.3M in Bitcoin On June 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (#DOJ) confiscated 63.7 #bitcoin, valued at approximately $2.3 million at the time. The funds were seized from the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline Co. to hackers who carried out the largest cyberattack in US history.

Office of Public Affairs | Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside | United States Department of Justice

Historical database of events is populated and pushed to GitHub 👨‍💻 Of course, I already have a couple dozen more events I want to add, but there’s time for everything. I am now doing a lot of under the hood work expanding the database with the contents of our archive. Big updates coming next week 🤞 Stay tuned and don’t forget to support the project ⚡️

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GitHub - Bitcoin-Calendar/calendar-api-db: The single source of truth for the Bitcoin Calendar project.

The single source of truth for the Bitcoin Calendar project. - Bitcoin-Calendar/calendar-api-db

Archived Sites

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💇‍♂️ Shave and a Haircut Parity On June 6, 2011, Hal Finney noted that #bitcoin had reached "shave and a haircut parity". 1 BTC = $16.70

Shave and a haircut, two bitcoins

👮‍♂️ Bitcoin Helps Fight Police Brutality On June 6, 2012, Travis Kiger secured the recall of three Fullerton city council members and charges against two police officers who beat homeless man Kelly Thomas to death. This story is interesting because #bitcoin played a significant role in Travis's fight against corruption and police brutality – the libertarian Republican's campaign was partially sponsored by bitcointalk forum members. It is also interesting that Kiger saved the coins collected in spring 2012 to later sell them at the peak of the 2013 cycle.

Friends Of Fullerton : Election campaign accepting Bitcoins

Address: 1PacXs9va51ezmXmriRCFXj5Sqx8EncQVM - mempool - Bitcoin Explorer

🥷 PGP Release On June 5, 1991, Philip Zimmermann sent the first release of #PGP to several friends for them to upload to the Internet. Soon after PGP 2.0's release, U.S. Customs became interested. Little did they know that they would thus contribute to PGP's growing popularity, helping to ignite a controversy that would ultimately lead to the lifting of restrictions on the export of strong cryptography from the US. - https://web.archive.org/web/20221128003420/https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/news/PGP_10thAnniversary.html

🏠 First Real Estate Property for Bitcoin On June 5, 2011, the first advertisement for real estate for sale in #bitcoin appeared. The property was an apartment in a high-rise building on a beach near Tokyo. The seller wanted 3,500 BTC, which at the time was equivalent to $60,000. -

For sale: beach condo near Tokyo

For sale: beach condo near Tokyo

🚜 Killdozer Day On June 4, 2004, Marvin Heemeyer armored his bulldozer and went on a rampage, destroying the property of local authorities and oligarchs in retaliation for property unlawfully taken from him – he fought to save his business in court but could not defeat the officials by their rules. Police fired over 200 bullets at the bulldozer but could not stop Marvin. After completing his revenge and destroying 13 buildings, the man committed suicide and became the sole fatality of the event. A victim of state tyranny.

🗣️ Hal Finney on Bitcoin and the Lindy Effect On June 4, 2011, Hal Finney highlighted an interesting pattern of Bitcoin in response to a forum user's doubts regarding #bitcoin future price growth. -

Bitcoin and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Bitcoin and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

🥷 Snowden Pays for Servers with Bitcoin In June 2013, Edward Snowden used #bitcoin to pay for servers onto which he later uploaded 200,000 documents exposing the US government's surveillance of its own citizens. -

Just a moment...

👨‍⚖️ SEC Charges Erik Voorhees for Unlawful Sale of Bitcoin Company Shares On June 3, 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (#SEC) charged Erik Voorhees, co-owner of two #Bitcoin websites, for publicly offering shares of his ventures without registration. One of the websites was #SatoshiDice. The profits Voorhees generated from these offerings amounted to over $15,000. Voorhees agreed to settle the charges by disgorging full profits of $15,843 and paying a civil penalty of $35,000. nevent1qqs2pvuannr6xc0eg73282duup38xc0ru5g9zlm5gqr6zytzuzr4taqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcl9fvld -

SEC.gov | Request Rate Threshold Exceeded

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On June 3, 2021, the investment director of French asset management firm Amundi stated that #Bitcoin was a farce, adding that governments and regulators would eventually stop the music. 1 BTC = $39,364 -

Bitcoin is a "farce"- Amundi CIO | Reuters

🚀 Bitcoin Reaches $10 On June 2, 2011, #bitcoin exchange rate on #MtGox reached $10 per #BTC.

⛽️ Gas for Bitcoin On June 2, 2011, a bitcoiner nicknamed PLATO, traversing the USA from east to west using only #bitcoin, paid for gasoline by sending 0.75 BTC to a community member who, in turn, spent "dirty fiat" to fuel the bitcoiner's car. mybitcoin.com was used to facilitate the exchange. 1 BTC = $10 note12sr0nc3u9fhhkry4u5v77q2ejh5p98scgavu5y5mg0g3w4v6h7zqurk8kg

💆‍♂️ First Chiropractor Starts Accepting Bitcoin On June 1, 2011, the first chiropractor began accepting #bitcoin for their services. The cost of a session at that time was 5 BTC. -

Now accepting Bitcoin! | Dr. Patrick Dobbins, DC

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Chiropractor in SF Bay Area now accepting BTC for office visits

Chiropractor in SF Bay Area now accepting BTC for office visits

📝 Gawker Article on Bitcoin, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox On June 1, 2011, Adrian Chen's Gawker article, titled "The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable", focusing on #SilkRoad and #Bitcoin, was published. Thanks to a link to #MtGox within the article, excitement around Bitcoin sharply increased, and the price surged. -

The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable

Today I focused on the “Archiving” part of Bitcoin Calendar’s promise. 📦 ArchiveBox - a self hosted web page archiving tool - is now up and running on the project’s VPS. Now I’ll be able to migrate all the events’ reference links to point to Bitcoin Calendars own web archive. This will greatly improve UX and allow visitors to browse all relevant archived links. Lots of benefits are also on the horizon for future development. The work goes on 🫡 You can have a sneak peek at freshly set up Bitcoin Calendar archive below 👇

Archived Sites

💬️ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0 On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea. -

Early speculators' reward

Early speculators

👨‍💻 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...