👑 Dawn of the Gold Standard On August 15, 1971, US President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, effectively ending the gold standard.

Address to the Nation Outlining a New Economic Policy: "The Challenge of Peace." | The American Presidency Project

👨‍💻 Reusable Proof of Work On August 15, 2004, Hal Finney announced the launch of RPOW - Reusable Proof-of-Work - a concept that was never fully implemented but became a significant milestone in the formation of a permissionless, borderless money. Learn more about Hal and RPOW on 21ideas.org

RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work

📧 Satoshi's Email On August 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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🪁 Coinkite is Born On August 13, 2011, Coinkite was founded, specializing in the production of hardware solutions for #Bitcoin and many other cool types of Bitcoin merch.

Bitcoin Holidays

💡 Satoshi Proposes Automated Bitcoin Escrows On August 11, 2010, Satoshi proposed automated escrows on #Bitcoin, which could potentially enhance the security of users' stored coins.

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🥇 Microstrategy Buys Its First Bitcoin On August 11, 2020, #Microstrategy became the first publicly traded company with #bitcoin in its treasury. The company acquired 21,454 #BTC for $250 million, with an average price per coin of $11,653.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET | Microstrategy, Inc.

✍️ Hal Finney's Last Post On August 9, 2013, Hal Finney published his last post on #bitcointalk.

Old people, how did you protect purchases before widespread use of credit cards?

🪪 BitLicense Comes into Effect On August 8, 2015, the New York Department of Financial Services began requiring the #BitLicense for conducting "money transmitter" business in the state.

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☑️ SegWit Activation On August 8, 2017, Segregated Witness was officially locked in by the #UASF client on the #Bitcoin network. This milestone was reached when 100% of miners signaled support for #SegWit between blocks 477,792 and 479,807. Thus, the SegWit upgrade was locked-in and would be fully activated in approximately two weeks at the start of the next difficulty adjustment period. Learn more about SegWit in Jonathan Bier's book "The Blocksize War."

The Blocksize War – Chapter 5 – SegWit | BitMEX Blog

🗣️ Satoshi on Bitcoin's Utility On August 7, 2010, Satoshi challenged the assertion that #Bitcoin's use of PoW was a waste. 1 BTC = $0.06

Bitcoin minting is thermodynamically perverse

📚 Notable Publication On August 7, 2019, GiGi published the article "Proof of Life."

Proof of Life. Why Bitcoin is a Living Organism

🤠 "Futurama" Bitcoin Episode On August 7, 2023, the 143rd episode of #Futurama was released, with its plot revolving around #Bitcoin: Professor Farnsworth gets into debt with the robot mafia, losing all his money on bitcoin #trading, and Bender buys a donkey for 15 mBTC and becomes a hostage on a Bitcoin farm.

"Futurama" How the West Was 1010001 (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

🤴 Bank of England Tries to Accumulate Gold During the WWI period there were multiple occasions upon which large sums of #gold coin were withdrawn from circulation by the Bank of England. On August 6, 1915, His Majesty's government published the following appeal:

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👨‍⚖️ First Lawsuit Against a Bitcoin Exchange On August 6, 2012, the first lawsuit was filed against a company involved with #Bitcoin. Four bitcoiners, including Jed McCaleb, the founder of #MtGox, sued #Bitcoinica exchange, which had been hacked and refused to return customer funds. At that time, $460,000 was at stake. https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/d726e911c3d692ee560f91556b93a5aa31575e2297dbc1fc6c98ebfff8c25109.pdf

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On August 6, 2018, Goldman analysts made a bold statement: "#Bitcoin is never coming back." Time showed they were greatly mistaken. 1 #BTC = $7,000

GOLDMAN SACHS: Bitcoin is never coming back

🔮 Milton Friedman Predicts E-cash In August of 1999, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman predicted the emergence of e-cash – a currency untraceable from external sources. Although #Bitcoin is not an anonymous network, there are many ways to achieve a decent level of privacy. You can find more info on #privacy in a dedicated section of 21ideas.org website.

🎭 First Attempt to Deanonymize Bitcoin Users On August 4, 2011, Dan Kaminsky shared his development of a mechanism to deanonymize #Bitcoin users by correlating transmitted transactions with node IP addresses with participants of the #bitcointalk forum.

BitCoin Deanonymization

📚 Notable Publication On August 4, 2021, the Samourai Wallet development team published a series of articles "Understanding Bitcoin Privacy."

Understanding Bitcoin Privacy with OXT

🪦 Bitcoin Obituary On August 3, 2013, the gold bug website Daily Paul published an article "Why Bitcoin Will Fail," where the author, among other now clichéd criticisms of #Bitcoin, lamented its lack of "intrinsic value" and compared it to the "Mississippi Bubble." |1 BTC = $97.24

Why Bitcoin will fail | Peace . Gold . Liberty

🦘 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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