🪧 Bitcoin Billboard On July 23, 2020, a #Bitcoin billboard appeared over Los Angeles with the inscription: "Your Savings Are Being Printed Away."

📱 First Bitcoin App for iPad Released On August 22, 2011, the first #Bitcoin application for iPad, "BitCoins Mobile", was released.

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🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On July 21, 2016, in light of the completed #Ethereum hard fork, Vice published an article "Why Ethereum Succeeded Where Bitcoin Failed". The main argument was the author's admiration for how quickly Vitalik managed to unite the community and pull off a hard fork to roll back The #DAO developers' error and return the money lost by the Ethereum Foundation's leadership. Ethereum's success was contrasted with #Bitcoin's protracted "block size war," where the community split into two camps and was unable to reach a consensus for over a year. The moral of the story is actually different: decision-making and execution in centralized systems are much simpler and faster than in decentralized ones.

Why Ethereum Succeeded Where Bitcoin Failed

🔌 The DAO Hard Fork On July 20, 2016, a hard fork occurred on the #Ethereum network, rolling it back to fix an error made by developers in The DAO smart contract. This error resulted in the hack of the contract and the theft of ~$150 million from major investors, including funds from Ethereum's leadership team, like Gavin Wood. The situation was quickly saved thanks to Ethereum's charismatic leader, Vitalik Buterin, who convinced the majority that investors' money should be returned by rolling back the "decentralized" network to the point before the hack. The decentralization they deserved.

Hard Fork Completed - Ethereum Blog

🚗 Tesla Dumps 75% of its Bitcoin On July 20, 2022, Tesla sold 75% of the #bitcoin held on the company's balance sheets, despite its previous statements about Bitcoin's long-term potential. 1 BTC = $20,500

Tesla converted 75% of bitcoin purchases to fiat currency in Q2 2022

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On July 18, 2023, Spencer Schiff, son of well-known gold bug and #Bitcoin opponent Peter Schiff, predicted Bitcoin's price would drop to zero in the next few years. 1 BTC = $30,141 https://nitter.net/SpencerKSchiff/status/1681322456030560256#m

👨‍💻 Bitcoin 0.3.2 Launched On July 17, 2010, #Bitcoin 0.3.2 was released. In this version, Satoshi added checkpoints, designed to secure the network from deep reorganizations and nodes from DOS attacks. Later, checkpoints stopped being added to the blockchain. The last one was added at block height 295,000.

Bitcoin 0.3.2 released

Bitcoin 0.3.2 released

Bitcoin 0.3.2 released

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bitcoin/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp at v28.0 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree. Contribute to bitcoin/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

🏔️ Mt. Gox Launched On July 17, 2010, the infamous #MtGox exchange was launched.

Mt. Gox - Bitcoin Wiki

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On July 16, 2020, Joe Biden, running for US president, revealed his prejudiced stance on #Bitcoin and stated that he would never ask his voters for support in bitcoin. In the same tweet, Joe emphasized his intention to stop Trump from being re-elected for a second term. Four years later, Biden withdrew his candidacy for a second presidential term, with Donald Trump winning the election. Trump had expressed support for bitcoiners and even attended the largest Bitcoin conference in Nashville.

Joe Biden (@JoeBiden): "I don’t have Bitcoin, and I’ll never ask you to send me any. But if you want to chip in to help make Donald Trump a one-term President, you can do that here: https://joe.link/2B40QIz" | nitter

🪙 1 BTC = $0.01 On July 15, 2010, the price of #bitcoin first reached 1 cent (USD).

👨‍💻 Bitcoin 0.3.1 Launched On July 15, 2010, the corrective update #Bitcoin 0.3.1 was introduced. The update offered minor fixes and improvements, and also added Portuguese translation.

Bitcoin 0.3.1 released

📧 Satoshi's Email On July 15, 2015, Satoshi, or someone who gained access to the email used by Satoshi to first announce #Bitcoin, wrote a letter in support of small blockers. "When I designed Bitcoin, I designed it in such a way as to make future modifications to the consensus rules difficult without near unanimous agreement. Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satoshi Nakamoto."

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🔦 ₿ on Slovak Central Bank On July 13, 2018, enthusiasts beamed a #Bitcoin beacon onto the building of the Slovak Central Bank. 1 BTC = $6,000

🚀 Mega Bull Run of 2010 July 12, 2010, marked the beginning of a 10x #bitcoin price increase over 5 days, from approximately $0.008 per #BTC to $0.08 per BTC.

👨‍💻 Bitcoin v0.11 Launched On July 12, 2015, Bitcoin v0.11 was launched. This #Bitcoin #Core release added: - #block pruning (reduced disk space by deleting old block data), - experimental big-endian support, - memory usage optimizations, - improved fee estimation, - option to disable automatic wallet transaction broadcast for #privacy, - stream isolation for #Tor to enhance privacy and reliability.

Bitcoin Core version 0.11.0 released

📚 Notable Publication On July 12, 2019, Satoshilabs published the article "Is your passphrase strong enough?"

Is your passphrase strong enough?

🗣️ Bitcoin First Mentioned on Slashdot On July 11, 2010, the #Bitcoin v0.3 update was mentioned on #Slashdot, leading to a massive influx of new users.

Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 - Slashdot

🌗 Second Bitcoin Halving On July 9, 2016, the second #Bitcoin #halving occurred, reducing the #block reward from 25 to 12.5 coins.

Block 420000: 000000000000000002cce816c0ab2c5c269cb081896b7dcb34b8422d6b74ffa1 - mempool - Bitcoin Explorer

📚 Notable Publication On July 9, 2018, Pierre Rochard published the article "#Bitcoin Governance."

Bitcoin Governance

👨‍💻 Bitcoin v0.3 Released On July 6, 2010, Satoshi released #Bitcoin v0.3. Among other improvements, the update increased hashing efficiency by 20% and added MacOS support.

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3 released! – Satoshi Nakamoto