14 Aug 2016 – Bitfinex partially compensates users for hack
A day in Bitcoin history: 14 Aug 2016 (BTC price: ~ $600; hashrate: ~1 EH/s)
Two weeks after the Bitfinex hack, the exchange began reimbursing customers who lost funds. They were compensated with BFX tokens, redeemable for Bitcoin or fiat, demonstrating one of the earliest crisis responses in exchange history.
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Have been listening to Beach House for years. This album <Bloom> is especially genius.
I remember a time in my life that I loop this album for weeks. Yes, for weeks.
11 August 2020 – MicroStrategy buys its first Bitcoin
A day in Bitcoin history: 11 Aug 2020 (BTC price: ≈ $11,000; hashrate: ~100 EH/s)
MicroStrategy became the first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset—marking a major shift in institutional adoption.
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Recently use @Alby Go. Connect it to multiple Coinos accounts via @Nostr Wallet Connect . It works like a charm.
I especially like the magical feature that it reads amount of sats received when time someone zap me via nostr.
What a time to be alive.
9 August 2010 – A Bitcoin worth $1 billion in glitch (Mt. Gox glitch)
A day in Bitcoin history: 9 Aug 2010 (BTC price: virtually negligible)
A technical anomaly at Mt. Gox caused Bitcoin to be priced at an impossible $1 billion per coin—highlighting early exchange errors and the nascent state of infrastructure.
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6 August 2010 – Major Bitcoin protocol vulnerability and emergency fork
A day in Bitcoin history: 6 Aug 2010 (BTC price: ≈ $0.08; hashrate: negligible)
A critical flaw allowed a single transaction to generate over 92 billion BTC. The community quickly responded: miners implemented an emergency protocol fork, invalidating the fake transaction and securing the network. It remains the only severe security flaw ever exploited.
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