🦘 SciAm Issue with "Mathematical Games" Article Published In August of 1997, issue 32 of Scientific American magazine was published, containing the article "Mathematical Games". The article was published despite objections and even threats from the NSA, which considered cryptography to be munition. Thus, this publication became one of the first steps by the freedom fighter community in the struggle against government agencies for the availability of privacy tools for ordinary citizens.

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✊ Bitcoin Independence Day On August 1, 2017, the Block Size War officially ended. #Bitcoin users demonstrated their independence from miner control by successfully rolling out a software update via a User Activated Soft Fork (#UASF). The soft fork disregarded uncooperative #miners, making it clear that users (i.e., nodes), not miners or companies, control the Bitcoin network. You can learn more about these events in Jonathan Bier's book "The Blocksize War."

The Blocksize War – Chapter 17 – User-Activated Softfork | BitMEX Blog

💩 First ICO On July 31, 2013, the first ICO for the "utility" token Mastercoin, later renamed Omni, was launched. Those wishing to participate in the #ICO had to send #bitcoin to the "Exodus Address." Ultimately, the address collected 5,120 #BTC, which at the time amounted to approximately $500,000.

Address: 1EXoDusjGwvnjZUyKkxZ4UHEf77z6A5S4P - mempool - Bitcoin Explorer

MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address”

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🪦 Tribute to Len Sassaman On July 30, 2011, Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed cleverly added an ASCII portrait and a short text into a #Bitcoin transaction in honor of Len Sassaman, who committed suicide on July 3 of the same year, two months after Satoshi sent his last public message. The hackers published the transaction to many specially created addresses that contained text data instead of public key hashes. Therefore, each line contains exactly 20 characters. The close proximity of Satoshi's departure and Len's suicide, and the fact that the latter was a brilliant developer involved in the creation of TCP/IP, working on #PGP, and many other projects, lead many to believe that he was the person behind the mysterious pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

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A Tribute to Len "rabbi" Sassama

Transaction: 930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72 - mempool - Bitcoin Explorer

🗣️ Satoshi's Quote On July 29, 2010, Satoshi published a reply on #bitcointalk that became the basis of one of his most well known quotes.

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🪲 Vulnerability Fix On July 29, 2010, Satoshi informed #bitcointalk users about a critical vulnerability in #Bitcoin and advised everyone to immediately update to version 0.3.6.

*** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6

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📚 Notable Publication On July 28, 2015, the "Freedom to Tinker" blog published an article "Analyzing the 2013 Bitcoin fork."

Analyzing the 2013 Bitcoin fork

🇺🇸 US President Speaks at Bitcoin Conference On July 27, 2024, the US President spoke for the first time at a #Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

🍸 Room77 - First Bitcoin Bar On July 26, 2011, Room77 became the first physical business (bar) to accept #bitcoin as a payment method.

web.archive.org/web/20180530070925/http://www.room77.de

💩 Musk is a Shitcoiner On July 26, 2024, Elon Musk removed the ₿ symbol from the #Bitcoin hashtag on X.

DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 (@nvk): "Elon removed the #Bitcoin hashtag icons :/" | nitter

🗝️ Group Key Signing Method On July 25, 2005, Phil Zimmermann and Len Sassaman published a method for efficient group key signing. Their approach allowed for faster #PGP key verification by pre-creating a list of fingerprints and hashing it. The work that formed the basis of #Bitcoin began long before Satoshi started putting this puzzle together.

web.archive.org/web/20061205200342/http://sion.quickie.net/keysigning.txt

🐳 Megawhale Shares Screenshot of His Stack On July 25, 2010, in a #bitcointalk forum thread, user knightmb shared a screenshot of a wallet containing 371,067 #bitcoin.

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👨‍💻 Bitcoin 0.3.3 Launched On July 25, 2010, Satoshi released #Bitcoin 0.3.3, introducing significant protocol improvements: 1. HTTP authentication, ensuring JSON-RPC security 2. #Blockchain download speed on first Bitcoin launch increased fivefold, taking less than 30 minutes.

Bitcoin 0.3.3 released -- PLEASE UPGRADE

📑 SEC Report on The DAO On July 25, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (#SEC) issued a report indicating that tokens offered and sold by a "virtual" organization known as "The #DAO" were securities and therefore subject to federal securities laws. The report was issued to create a precedent and inform the public that similar future offerings would be considered securities sales and would need to comply with federal securities laws. Be aware that #shitcoin industry is not a freedom technology. "Crypto" is just a way for token creators and influencers to replace banksters, politicians and tradefi crooks.

SEC.gov | SEC Issues Investigative Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

🔮 Bitcoin Ad in Las Vegas On July 24, 2024, #Bitcoin first appeared on the Sphere in Las Vegas, becoming the first cryptocurrency advertised by this entertainment arena.

🏎️ First Automaker Starts Accepting Bitcoin On July 23, 2012, automaker #Wikispeed began accepting #bitcoin. "For the first time in history, it is now possible to purchase a car manufactured by a distributed, collaborative corporation using currency issued by no bank."

WIKISPEED - WIKISPEED, first car-maker in the world to accept Bitcoin [PRESS RELEASE]

🪧 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