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BitcoinCalendar 3 months ago
Excited to announce the first issue of "This Week in Bitcoin History" digest. It will be dropping every Monday so those of you who tend to miss important Bitcoin milestones, can stay up to date with upcoming holidays. I'm also adding the "Historical Metrics" section for you to be able to compare how bitcoin evolved over past few years. Drop your feedback and suggestions below. View article โ†’
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BitcoinCalendar 3 months ago
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Activation of BIP 0001 On November 10, 2011, Amir Taaki activated the first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal โ€“ BIP 0001 โ€“ which was prepared back on September 19 of the same year. This BIP describes the process of proposing improvements. Later, it was succeeded by BIP 0002. image
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BitcoinCalendar 3 months ago
๐Ÿ“‚ Bitcoin Project Registered on SourceForge.net On November 9, 2008, the Bitcoin project was registered on SourceForge. GitHub was not yet popular at that time, so Satoshi preferred this version control system. SourceForge Twitter account bio even stated for some time: "The birthplace of Bitcoin." image
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BitcoinCalendar 3 months ago
๐Ÿ’ฌ Satoshi on Decentralized Systems On November 6, 2008, Satoshi explained the strengths of decentralized systems: "Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own." image
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BitcoinCalendar 3 months ago
๐Ÿ—๏ธ Diffie and Hellman Day On November 1, 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman published their proposal for a breakthrough in cryptographic communication: the first implementation of a public/private key pair for secure communication over open channels. image
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