Timeline of Bitcointalk and Important Events of Bitcoin Journey

dionisi

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Is there any way to get listed on this timeline ?

adam3us

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in bitcoin we trust

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 27, 2018, 04:30:44 PM

I'm confused regarding Hashcash, as Satoshi mention in white paper with date reference to 2002. But some sources suggest Adam Back published it in 1997[/li][/list]

that is because the paper was written 5 years after hashcash was released. see first sentence of abstract or citation [1] in the paper "Hashcash
was originally proposed as a mechanism to throttle systematic abuse of un-metered internet resources such as email, and anonymous remailers in May 1997"

[1] http://hashcash.org/papers/announce.txt

InvoKing

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I like your post, nice idea to simplify things for Bitcointalkers especially newbies. May the sources be with you Wink

And it may be interesting to see something about Bitcoin developers.

jackg

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 28, 2018, 07:44:36 PM

Quote from: jackg on May 27, 2018, 05:02:16 PM

Nice timeline also. And if anyone knows theymos' story (even theymos yourself) as to how you became to know bitcoin so early on it would be much appreciated (maybe make a book about it - I'd pay for that).

Forgive me if I'm wrong... But I read it (somewhere)... we aren't suppose to talk about it?
Also if someone want to stay anonymous we should respect his privacy?

There's probably a lot of things we're probably not supposed to talk about, however, I don't think that's one of them? Why is it a bad idea to look at persoanl accounts of how people got into Bitcoin, everyone has a story, some are good; some are avarage; some are just people getting bored with running the algorithms they're employed to run on government supercomputers...

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 28, 2018, 07:44:36 PM

Quote from: jackg on May 27, 2018, 05:02:16 PM

Does the birth of SHA256 deserve to be on there?

Well I guess no... but it's just a cryptography technique and cryptography dates back to 1900 BCE in Egypt :p

Yeah that is a bit like askiig for everything that has ever been created slightly relevant to be on there.
Like the origin of the mod function or the creation of every cryptographic algorithm that came before SHA256 that SHA256 was an improvement of.

shahzadafzal

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Quote from: jackg on May 27, 2018, 05:02:16 PM

Nice timeline also. And if anyone knows theymos' story (even theymos yourself) as to how you became to know bitcoin so early on it would be much appreciated (maybe make a book about it - I'd pay for that).

Forgive me if I'm wrong... But I read it (somewhere)... we aren't suppose to talk about it?
Also if someone want to stay anonymous we should respect his privacy?

But yeah would to know about it....

Quote from: jackg on May 27, 2018, 05:02:16 PM

Does the birth of SHA256 deserve to be on there?

Well I guess no... but it's just a cryptography technique and cryptography dates back to 1900 BCE in Egypt :p

Quote from: hugeblack on May 27, 2018, 05:43:41 PM

Excellent timeline Although you have ignored some people and events. "Martti Malmi (sirius)"

Did not find it worth mentioning... I mean could not find a contribution :p

Quote from: vit05 on May 27, 2018, 09:16:23 PM

Sirius was one of the first people to contact Satoshi and offering to help him[1]. Theymos first contact with Bitcoin was on 4chain[2] them he starts to participate on this forum and become one of the most active.

Yes I read it but could not find the dates

vit05

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Quote from: mdayonliner on May 27, 2018, 04:37:35 PM

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 27, 2018, 04:30:44 PM

https://i.imgur.com/VRKkELw.png

Now this will be an interesting one

Is there any myth about how theymos, Cyrus and satoshi met in the first place?

Sirius was one of the first people to contact Satoshi and offering to help him[1]. Theymos first contact with Bitcoin was on 4chain[2] them he starts to participate on this forum and become one of the most active.

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I saw a post about Bitcoin on 4chan. The poster was complaining about how long it was taking to download the blockchain. Wink

I just started participating on the forum and never lost my interest.
Theymos

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Martti Malmi: "Basically, for the first year, 2009, I and Satoshi were the only developers."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i33yqSbUcc - Martti Malmi interview
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1dkqcx/i_am_theymos_ama/c9rdofs/

hugeblack

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Excellent timeline Although you have ignored some people and events. "Martti Malmi (sirius)"

Quote from: https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-martti-malmi-early-bitcoin-developer-and-the-original-founder-of-the-bitcointalk-org-forums-ama-t2770.html

I sold 5,050 BTC for 5.05 USD on PayPal. I ran my own bitcoinexchange.com for a little while, exchanging BTC for SEPA bank payments.

Quote from: https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-martti-malmi-early-bitcoin-developer-and-the-original-founder-of-the-bitcointalk-org-forums-ama-t2770.html

2. I do, although nowhere near the 55,000 BTC I mined on my laptop back then. No comments on storage!

also, why
Why did theymos become admin of this forum?

Quote from: https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-martti-malmi-early-bitcoin-developer-and-the-original-founder-of-the-bitcointalk-org-forums-ama-t2770.html

He was made a forum and server admin back in 2010 because he had proven himself trustworthy and was able to spend time working on it.

I wish there would be more confessions and facts about Bitcoin so not to be anonymous developers.

Sources: https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-m-martti-malmi-early-bitcoin-developer-and-the-original-founder-of-the-bitcointalk-org-forums-ama-t2770.html

jackg

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

Quote from: mdayonliner on May 27, 2018, 04:37:35 PM

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 27, 2018, 04:30:44 PM

https://i.imgur.com/VRKkELw.png

Now this will be an interesting one

Is there any myth about how theymos, Cyrus and satoshi met in the first place?

Don't ask questions like that, one of two things will probably happen:
1. theymos will post 2 myths and 1 truth about it and you'll have to determine which is which.
2. Cyrus and theymos will both post entirely conflicting statements.

Nice timeline also. And if anyone knows theymos' story (even theymos yourself) as to how you became to know bitcoin so early on it would be much appreciated (maybe make a book about it - I'd pay for that).

Can anyone find a copy of this: http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php
I tried finding it on archive.org but it seems to have been completely struck from their records.

Does the birth of SHA256 deserve to be on there?

mdayonliner

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We are Bitcoin!

Quote from: shahzadafzal on May 27, 2018, 04:30:44 PM

https://i.imgur.com/VRKkELw.png

Now this will be an interesting one

Is there any myth about how theymos, Cyrus and satoshi met in the first place?

shahzadafzal

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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. — Dr. Edwin Land

I should start with Satoshi
Since Satoshi said he is from Japan and born in 1975, I will believe him.

https://i.imgur.com/RQN0Tod.png

This is his P2P Foundation Profile

https://i.imgur.com/CswvRRgm.png

Some interesting events which happened before, bitcoin.
Hashcash was published by Adam Back
b-money was proposed by Wei Dai.

https://i.imgur.com/pHtrxDM.png

Satoshi starts coding Bitcoin and
Bitcoin.org website was registered.

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper 2008-11-17 21:33:04 UTC

Code:

I believe I've worked through all those little details over the
last year and a half while coding it, and there were a lot of them.
The functional details are not covered in the paper, but the
sourcecode is coming soon. I sent you the main files.
(available by request at the moment, full release soon)

https://i.imgur.com/dO8km4h.png

Bitcoin White Paper is published by Satoshi and
Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge

Code:

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
[email protected]
www.bitcoin.org
Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main
benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending.
We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.
The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of
hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing
the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of
events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As
long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to
attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers. The
network itself requires minimal structure. Messages are broadcast on a best effort
basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the longest
proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone.

https://i.imgur.com/g3tb1xA.png

Bitcoin is launched, first genesis block is mined (hardedcoded by Satoshi).
He embedded in the coinbase of block#0 this text
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Bitcion v0.1 released on cryptography mailing list

Code:

Satoshi Nakamoto satoshi at vistomail.com  Thu Jan 8 14:27:40 EST 2009


Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.

See bitcoin.org for screenshots.

Download link:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

Windows only for now.  Open source C++ code is included.

https://i.imgur.com/yD16zsu.png

Hal Finney mined the Block#78 (first other than Satoshi)
First transaction of Bitcoin, Satoshi sent 10 BTC to Hal

Quote from: Hal on March 19, 2013, 03:40:02 PM

I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction,
when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi
over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.

https://i.imgur.com/Nn4QwfC.png

bitcointalk.org is registered by Sirius (presumably)
and First Welcome Post created by Satoshi himself

Quote from: satoshi on November 22, 2009, 01:04:28 PM

Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!

The old forum can still be reached here:
http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php

I'll repost some selected threads here and add updated answers to questions where I can.

Bitcion v0.2 is released by Satoshi

Quote from: satoshi on December 16, 2009, 05:45:36 PM

Bitcoin version 0.2 is here!

Download links:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.2.0-win32-setup.exe/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.2.0-win32.zip/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.2.0-linux.tar.gz/download

https://i.imgur.com/znhzdxM.png

First difficulty adjustment

Quote from: satoshi on February 05, 2010, 02:19:12 PM

We had our first automatic adjustment of the proof-of-work difficulty on 30 Dec 2009.
--snip--
30/12/2009 00000000d86a0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--snip--
date, difficulty factor, % change
2009 1.00
30/12/2009 1.18 +18%

https://i.imgur.com/Ov2y9lV.png

Theymos joined bitcointalk.org

https://i.imgur.com/b5CbZwA.png

First real world Bitcoin transaction was made when Laszlo bought
two pizzas for 10,000 BTC

Quote from: laszlo on May 22, 2010, 02:17:26 PM

I just want to report that I successfully traded 10,000 bitcoins for pizza.

Pictures: http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/

Thanks jercos!

Bitcointalk reached it's on millionth post
(Could not find the millionth post, I guess its deleted here is 999999^th and 1000001^th)
HODL typo was introduced by GameKyuubi

Quote from: GameKyuubi on December 18, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

I type d that tyitle twice because I knew it was wrong the first time. Still wrong. w/e. GF's out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I'LL TELL YOU WHY.
--snip--
so i've had some whiskey
actually on the bottle it's spelled whisky
w/e
sue me
(but only if it's payable in BTC)

https://i.imgur.com/0NUeTou.png

Finally Theymos, releases IP Address of Satotshi and
PM's between Satoshi and Theymos

Quote from: theymos on April 17, 2013, 06:20:31 PM

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

https://i.imgur.com/VRKkELw.png

References & Disclaimer

Here is the full timeline as a single image https://i.imgur.com/oV18DMY.png
Please let me know if any error or any thing missing
I'm confused regarding Hashcash, as Satoshi mention in white paper with date reference to 2002. But some sources suggest Adam Back published it in 1997
https://en.bitcoin.it/
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

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