Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Established
Mt. Gox (an abbreviation for Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange) is established by Jeb McCaleb, as one of the first Bitcoin exchanges online. The Cryptocurrency exchange holds significant history for multiple reasons, including during 2013 it had become the largest exchange in the world, handling approximately 70 percent of all BTC trades globally (by […]
10,000 BTC Spent on Pizza (Bitcoin Pizza Day)
The first, real-world transaction using Bitcoins takes place when a Jacksonville, Florida programmer, Laszlo Hanyecz, paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. The deal came about when Hanyecz posted on the BitcoinTalk Forum that he would give 10,000 bitcoins to anyone who brought him pizza. Someone in the UK took him up on it, ordered […]
An Exchange Rate is Established
New Liberty Standard publishes a Bitcoin exchange rate that establishes the of value a Bitcoin at US$1 = 1,309.03 BTC, using an equation that includes the cost of electricity to run a computer that generated Bitcoins.
The First Bitcoin Transaction
The first transaction of Bitcoin currency, in block 170, takes place between Satoshi and Hal Finney, a developer and cryptographic computer scientist. Sadly, Hal passed away on the 28th August 2014 due to complications of ALS.
Bitcoin.org is Registered
Bitcoin.org is registered. The domain was registered at Anonymous Speech, a site that still exists today and allows users to anonymously register domain names and now accepts Bitcoin.
