2019-12-16-Bitcoin-history.md

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• Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
• Satoshi's Forum Posts
  • P2P Foundation (Threads)
  • BitcoinTalk (Threads)
• A Week of Satoshi Pt. 3: Big Bitcoin Moments (2008 – 2013)

  The Cambrian explosion of cryptocurrencies has behaved much in the same way as in biology. What wasn’t weeded out by a stronger species, didn’t navigate its way through a myriad of natural challenges and establish itself as antifragile, placed itself in league with other ...

• Michel Rauchs (@mrauchs)

  My Master's thesis (2016) visualising the evolution of the #Bitcoin business ecosystem from 2009-2015 is now also available on SSRN. Network graphs are based on a unique dataset of 500+ Bitcoin companies and projects. https://t.co/uBoGDe5Jod

2009-2010

• Genesis Block Newspaper

  "The only two remaining verified complete copies of this newspaper were acquired from the London National Archives on January 14, 2014. The newspapers come in a complete set with both the cover and the entire newspaper included.

• newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/2009+Exchange+Rate -web.archive

  Exchange RateThis is a featured page We Sell 1,578.76 Bitcoins for $1.00 USD Plus PayPal Transaction Fee. We Buy1,578.78 Bitcoins for $1.00 USD Minus PayPal Transaction Fee. $100.00 USD Available 15,100.00 Bitcoins Available

• New Liberty Standard

  An Economic Revolution

  Bitcoin is the gold standard of digital currency. The availability of bitcoins can not be manipulated by governments or financial institutions and bitcoin transactions occur directly between two parties without a middleman.

  Try using bitcoins the next time you need to send or receive a payment over the Internet. First, download the Bitcoin software. Once Bitcoin is running, click 'Generate Coins' which will pay you bitcoins in exchange for your computer working to validate bitcoin transactions. Check the exchange rate to calculate how many bitcoins need to be sent. The payer can purchase additional bitcoins if needed. The payer's previously generated bitcoins allow for a lower out of pocket payment. The payer then sends the bitcoins to the receiver using the Bitcoin software. The receiver can then sell their bitcoins for dollars. The receiver's previously generated bitcoins allow a higher dollar payout.

• Bitcoin IRC Channel Guidelines
• https://thebitcoinnews.com/bitcoin-history-part-1-in-the-beginning/
• mt gox channel dump - Pastebin.com
• About That Orange B... The History of Bitcoin’s Logos - CoinDesk

  Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close.

• SatoshiDICE.com - The World's Most Popular Bitcoin Game
• http://organofcorti.blogspot.fr/2014/08/167-satoshis-hashrate.html
• 16.7 Satoshi's hashrate "Bitcoin mining pool, network and exchange analysis"
• fkysly/bitcoin0.1.0 - bitcoin0.1.0 source.
• Bitcoin Explorer
• #ProofOfKeys - Twitter Search

  On Jan 3 @blockchain tweeted: "It all started with Block #0 on Jan 3rd,.." - read what others are saying and join the conversation.

• Satoshi's Pre-Release Bitcoin Code Contains Fascinating Findings -...

  There was a private version of the Bitcoin code distributed to a few people before the launch of the network on Jan. 3, 2009.

• Francis Pouliot ☣️ (@francispouliot_)

  Accidentally discovered a mind-blowing artefact of Bitcoin history. I had heard rumors of its existence. I give you: the pre-release source code of Bitcoin! https://t.co/VeEFHglz2J Confirmation by Satoshi many had access to code when he mined Genesis: https://t.co/reEQ8...

• Constructive Direct Action Against Censorship

  The past few weeks have highlighted the vulnerability of centralized information systems to censorship: online speech is only as strong as the weakest intermediary. Sites hosting legitimate speech were caught up in an anti-counterfeiting raid by the Department of Homeland Sec...

• An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System - Fergal Reid University College Dublin, Ireland Martin Harrigan University College Dublin, Ireland

  Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electroniccurrency system, is a complicated issue. Within the system,users are identified by public-keys only. An attacker wishingto de-anonymize its users will attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and public-keys and associateinformation external to the system with the users. Bitcoinfrustrates this attack by storing the mapping of a user to hisor her public-keys on that user’s node only and by allowingeach user to generate as many public-keys as required. In thispaper we consider the topological structure of two networksderived from Bitcoin’s public transaction history. We showthat the two networks have a non-trivial topological structure,provide complementary views of the Bitcoin system and haveimplications for anonymity. We combine these structures withexternal information and techniques such as context discoveryand flow analysis to investigate an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which,at the time of the theft, had a market value of approximatelyhalf a million U.S. dollars.

• Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency?

  The Wikileaks fiasco is shaking the foundations of the Internet and might be boosting the popularity of a virtual currency system that’s impossible to police.

• web.archive.org/web/20100517040312/http://www.bitcoin.org:80/trade
• web.archive.org/web/20100523061151/http://www.privacyshark.com:80/about.html
• Proxy-purchasing* of domain names, SSL certificates, Etc. vekja.net

  If we see even moderate interest in this service we will improve the service by dedicating programming resources to add a panel, webmail, Etc -- any features users request. These would be provided at no extra cost since we just program them once.

  Other ideas? Just ask! We want your business as we want money to flow so that the Bitcoin economy reaches critical mass!

• BitcoinFX - BitcoinFX An Independent Exchange Service for the Bitcoin P2P Anonymous Digital Currency
• Re: Tor connections not working reliably, many seednodes offline 2010-10-06
• Pirate DNS Could Hatch a Lawless Darknet

  The Pirate Bay wants a new DNS system that will be impossible to censor, but also impossible to police. Would it be worthwhile?

• Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency?

  The Wikileaks fiasco is shaking the foundations of the Internet and might be boosting the popularity of a virtual currency system that’s impossible to police.

• proposal for a semi-automated Escrow mechanism
• Re: Repost: How anonymous are bitcoins? – Satoshi Nakamoto

  Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money created by Satoshi Nakamoto. His legacy is preserved on SatoshiNakamoto.me

• bitcointalk - What would you buy or sell in exchange for bitcoins?

  NewLibertyStandard: Here's what I will buy if the price is right.

  Paper bowls, about 10 ounces (295 ml), no more than 50 count factory sealed. Plastic cups, about 16 ounces (473 ml), no more than 50 count, factory sealed. Paper towels, preferably regular size Bounty Thick and Absorbent, single roll, factory sealed.

• freetalklive.com - bitcoin_p2p_cryptocurrency - 2010
• BTC Exchange Rate Site
• Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace - june 2010
• bitlist.tk - 2010 archive
• A question (I hope this in the right place)

  Would anyone be interested in purchasing online game currencies (WoW gold, EQ1 Plat, EQ2 Plat, Eve ISK, YPP PoE, etc.) for bitcoins? If so I can start working out (rough) exchange rates (If anyone knows a good place to FIND a community agreed upon exchange rate that would be even better.)

• Has someone made a "buy with bitcoins" button?
• Defending Bitcoin against interventionists
• Pizza for bitcoins?
• en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz
• http://eclipse.heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/
• New exchange (Bitcoin Market) January 15, 2010

  Hi everyone. I'm in the process of building an exchange. I have big plans for it, but I still have a lot of work to do. It will be a real market where people will be able to buy and sell Bitcoins with each other. In the coming weeks I should have a website with a basic framework set up. Please bear with me.

• Scalability and transaction rate Scalability and transaction rate
• Gavin will visit the CIA
• Bitcoin MasterCard: Followup Interview With Charlie Shrem - Coding...

  I Interview Charlie Shrem, co-founder of BitInstant, about the upcoming release of his Bitcoin MasterCard product and discuss Bitcoin in general.

• Satoshi dumped Bitcoin right after Gavin announced he was going to...
• Satoshi on Anonymous Transactions - bitcointalk [ϟ

  "As some might have noticed, one of the things that bugs me about bitcoin is that the entire history of transactions is completely public. I totally understand the benefits of how this simplifies things and makes it easy for everyone to prove coins are valid. So this is not a suggestion for a change to bitcoin. Rather it is a question about what could be possible, and what couldn't be possible."

• Wikileaks Bitcoin Fundraiser

  hachacha: Anyone have any ideas for raising money for wikileaks? Some governments have frozens Julian Assange's bank accounts, paypal, and credit cards. I think Bitcoin would be a great way for them to get donations. Anyone think its a good idea? I would like to start accepting donations for wikileaks but I don't know who to contact at wikileaks about getting them to accept bitcoin donations.

2011 - 2012

• Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 - Slashdot

  Teppy writes "How's this for a disruptive technology? Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, network-based digital currency with no central bank, and no transaction fees. Using a proof-of-work concept, nodes burn CPU cycles searching for bundles of coins, broadcasting their findings to t...

• r/Bitcoin - Just found this bad boy time to get rich! Ah the good ole days.
• Bitfinex’s Founder Seemingly Tried to Start a Ponzi Scheme — S...

  Raphael Nicolle, the elusive founder and CEO of Bitfinex, “invested” in a number of Ponzi schemes in 2012 and loudly… by binyamin

• Bennett Tomlin (@BennettTomlin)

  Isn't it weird that the founder of Bitfinex left right after their first hack?

• NERDY MONEY: BITCOIN, THE PRIVATE DIGITAL CURRENCY, AND THE CASE AGAINST ITS REGULATION
• Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency

  ST. LOUIS (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - Two senators are pressing federal authorit...

• The Bitcoin Bubble
• Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency

  A few weeks ago, we mentioned a rather unusual technological endeavor to create an online currency. We received a few queries about this subject, so decided to provide a more thorough description of what digital currency is, how this system works, why it's appealing and how i...

• Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks | TIME.com - Jerry Brito
• Bit O’Money: Who’s Behind the Bitcoin Bubble?

  It’s a bubble, but it’s an unbreakable bubble, one that is just going to keep growing and growing and growing … It’s kind of like the early days of the dot-com. People heard about this thing called the Internet and they didn’t know what it was, didn’t know what to do, so they bought every [stock] that ended in a dot-com and of course they all lost their shirts. This is kind of like this, but you actually can buy a piece of it, like the Internet but you can own a piece of it.

• Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin - Elli Androulaki, et al.

  IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 596 (2012). 10 Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir, ‘Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph,’ IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 584 (2012).

• Bitcoin, intermediaries, and information control

  I’m gratified that my recent writing on the Bitcoin virtual currency project has stirred much conversation and I thought I’d take a moment to continue that conversation. Tim Lee has wri…

• The economics of Bitcoin - Marginal REVOLUTION

  The lesson here is that enough of you ask me about a topic, eventually I will blog it. Here is Wikipedia on Bitcoin — it’s less than transparent, which I take to be informative in its own right. If you are late to the party, here is the confusing opening paragraph: Bi...

• The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his arguments are valid. - Hacker News
• Link2VoIP : VoIP / SIP / SIP Trunking / Asterisk Service Provider

  Link2VoIP - Termination and Origination for Asterisk. Low rates, DID coverage, 800 services, Mobile services.

• http://web.archive.org/web/20110910173612/https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/

  2011-2-7 - Escrow Trading Open Six more currency pairs are available. These are for escrow trading (the counter currency is sent directly from the buyer to the seller). There is also an option to accept open orders for escrow currency pairs directly. To do so, select 'Accept An Existing Order' on the 'My Orders' tab. 2011-2-1 - Going Live! Real trading of BMBTC/BMUSD and BMBTC/BMGAU is now available! 2011-1-13 - More testing needed More testing is needed. I'd like to have real trading functional for two currency pairs by the end of January. These will be 'BMBTC/BMUSD' and BMBTC/BMGAU'. Recent changes to order validation... Accounts may go negative after executing trades, but every attempt is made to prevent this. If an account goes negative, another order must be placed to bring it above negative. Otherwise, withdraws and payments are disabled for all accounts. Numerous changes have been made to the code for easier configuration. Some new bugs may be present. 2011-1-4 - Changed currency pairs Merged the processor to the currency pair as a two character prefix. Hopefully, this will make sense. An explanation is here. Added a basic order form, but I'm still seeking input on how it should look and what it should have. Need testing for Stop and Stop Limit order types. I reset most of the database. 2011-1-1 - Now Beta Testing The top priorities... Hunting down possible exploits, check input validation, fix basic bugs, and enhance the user interface. If you'd like to help, contact us directly or ask another member for an invitation.

• Freelancer Directory
• How I can buy weapons and ammunition for bitcoins?

  How I can buy weapons and ammunition for bitcoins?

• For those long time holders of BTC. Back in the day 2010, '11, '12...
• Bitcoin down the rabbit hole — Online drama and unsolved mysteri...

  May 2011 — Ubitex — Failed IPO, owner disappears with 1,100 Bitcoin

• Satoshi dumped Bitcoin right after Gavin announced he was going to the CIA.
• Gavin will visit the CIA
• The Bitcoin Show - Episode 003

  Gavin Andresen, Technical Lead of the Bitcoin free open source software project, is "De-Briefed" by Bruce Wagner of the daily "The Bit...

2013

• BIP 16 analysis from a miner's point of view
• Rebrand client to 'Bitcoin Core' · Issue #3203 · bitcoin/bitcoin

  To remove the confusion between the Bitcoin network and the reference client implementation that we maintain in this repository, both confusingly named 'bitcoin', we'd like ...

• Y Combinator-backed Coinbase now selling over $1M Bitcoins per month

  Customers of Coinbase, a platform for buying and selling digital currency Bitcoin, have bought or sold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin in the past 30 days.

• Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily...

  It hit a low of $37 as developers scrambled to fix the problem.

• DEA undertakes first ever seizure of bitcoins by US law enforcemen...

  In connection with an alleged violation of the controlled substances act, the DEA has become the first-ever US law enforcement agency to seize bitcoins. Does that make them legit?

• Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under A...

  Bitcoin Savings and Trust's founder has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme.

• Securities and Exchange Commission v. Shavers et al Filed July 23, 2013
• Bitcoin sinks after Chinese action

  China restricts local Bitcoin exchanges from being able to receive yuan-based deposits, causing "panic selling" of the virtual currency.

• Bitcoin sinks after Chinese action

  China restricts local Bitcoin exchanges from being able to receive yuan-based deposits, causing "panic selling" of the virtual currency.

• Bitcoins To Be Accepted By Baidu, Sparking Rally To $200
• Uyen T Nguyen: The Powerful Young Woman Behind the Alleged 'Satoshi Affair'

  Within many of the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit documents submitted over the last year, lots of them involve a mysterious woman named Uyen T Nguyen.

• ‎‎Untold Stories, Jered Kenna – An Ex-Marine Talks Early Bitcoin Mining & What Really Happens When Exchanges Fail - May 16, 2019
• ‎Noded Bitcoin Podcast: Noded 0.45.0 Bitstein on the Bitcoin Echo Chamber podcast with Heavily Armed Clown - Apr 28, 2019
• An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan
• BITCOIN: A PRIMER FOR POLICYMAKERS

  Crypto-currencies promise to lower the cost of payments but are threatened by excessive regulation, say Jerry Brito and Andrea Castillo

• Structure and Anonymity of the Bitcoin Transaction Graph,’ Future Internet 5:2 (2013).
• Bitcoin Hits the Big Time, to the Regret of Some Early Boosters,’ MIT Technology Review (22 May 2013).
• Small Business Owners Say Bitcoins Better Than Credit Cards FOX Business, Small Business Center (12 April 2013).
• 'Why Some Merchants Accept Bitcoin Despite the Risks,’ Payments Source (21 May 2013).
• A Guide to Bitcoin Mining: Why Someone Bought a $1,500 Bitcoin Min...

  There are bitcoin-savvy folks betting that paying 13 times the price of a machine will actually pay off.

• Geeks Love The Bitcoin Phenomenon Like They Loved The Internet In 1995
• bitcoin_2013_schedule_satsun_4-12-13.pdf
• The Original 'I AM HODLING' Bitcointalk Post

  "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. It's because I'm a bad trader and I KNOW I'M A BAD TRADER. Yeah you good traders can spot the highs and the lows pit pat piffy wing wong wang just like that and make a millino bucks sure no problem bro. Likewise the weak hands are like OH NO IT'S GOING DOWN I'M GONNA SELL he he he and then they're like OH GOD MY ASSHOLE when the SMART traders who KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING buy back in but you know what? I'm not part of that group. When the traders buy back in I'm already part of the market capital so GUESS WHO YOU'RE CHEATING day traders NOT ME~! Those taunt threads saying "OHH YOU SHOULD HAVE SOLD" YEAH NO SHIT. NO SHIT I SHOULD HAVE SOLD. I SHOULD HAVE SOLD MOMENTS BEFORE EVERY SELL AND BOUGHT MOMENTS BEFORE EVERY BUY BUT YOU KNOW WHAT NOT EVERYBODY IS AS COOL AS YOU. You only sell in a bear market if you are a good day trader or an illusioned noob. The people inbetween hold. In a zero-sum game such as this, traders can only take your money if you sell."

Mt Gox

• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4187.0
• Mtgox is changing owners
• https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/whats-going-on-with-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox/ https://blockchainlibrary.org/2017/11/most-cited-mt-gox-publications/
• John Biggs
• What’s Going On With Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox? – TechCrunch

  Mt. Gox, one of the original Bitcoin trading sites, has shut down its withdrawals system, citing problems related to transaction malleability (more on that shortly). Mt. Gox wrote on their site that this problem has forced them to shut down their withdrawal services: “We ap...

• Most Cited Mt Gox Publications

  Last updated November 4th, 2017. “Equilibrium capillary surfaces”. R Finn. 2012. books.google.com . 904 cites. “Bitcoin: An innovative alternative digital currency”. R Grinb…

• ‎Untold Stories: J. Maurice "Wiz" – The Real Story of Mt. Gox & How to Become a Self-Sovereign Bitcoin Miner - May 16, 2019
• Roger Ver on MTGOX Bitcoin exchange

  This video was made 7 months before the collapse of MTGOX. At that time, MTGOX was experi...

• Largest Bitcoin Exchange Offline due to Security Problems

  Activity on Mt.Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, was suspended earlier today in order to deal with two security incidents that led people to doubt th...

• Mt. Gox craziness - August 30, 2010
• New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com)
• https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/events/mtgox
• The Collapse of Mt Gox (The Final Goxxing)

2014-15

• Shower thoughts about the growth of the utxo set (with stats inside)
• Next level Bitcoin stress test -- June 29-30 13:00 GMT 2015
• The Megatransaction: Why Does It Take 25 Seconds?
• Las Vegas casinos adopt new form of currency: Bitcoins

  Who needs poker chips? There's a new currency coming to Las Vegas casinos, and it's called Bitcoin. Starting Wednesday, the D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino will begin collecting the

• r/Bitcoin - We've just reached 10 petahash per second!
• Coinbrief
• Unprecedented: Bitcoin Mining Network Exceeds 100 PH/s

  The power of the Bitcoin mining network has broken through 100 petahashes per second (PH/s) for the first time in the cryptocurrency’s five years of life.

• Microsoft now accepts Bitcoin to buy Xbox games and Windows apps

  Microsoft is now accepting Bitcoin as a payment option to download digital content. The software maker quietly started supporting the digital currency earlier this week, months after adding a B...

• Japan OKs recognizing virtual currencies as similar to real money ...

  The Cabinet on Friday approved a set of bills to help banking groups expand their information technology businesses and to recognize virtual currencies as

• The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy: Extracting and Analyzing the...

  In this paper, we gather together the minimum units of Bitcoin identity (the individual addresses), and group them into approximations of business entities, wha

• A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin

  "Although it is widely believed that Satoshi was an inflation-hating goldbug he never said this, and in fact programmed Bitcoin's money supply to grow indefinitely, forever. He modeled the monetary supply as 4 gold mines being discovered per mibillenium (1024 years), with equal intervals between them, each one being depleted over the course of 140 years. This poses obvious problems, however. Prominent among them is the discussion on what to call 1 billion Bitcoin, which symbol color to use for it, and when wallet clients should switch to it by default. To combat this, this document proposes a controversial change: making Bitcoin's monetary supply finite."

• Uber Switches to Bitcoin in Argentina After Govt Blocks Uber Credi...

  The Argentinian government blocked credit card companies from dealing with Uber, causing the ridesharing company’s national branch to use Bitcoin instead.

• Megabank Joins Coinbase's Record $75 Million Funding Round

  Coinbase has raised $75m from investors including the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, BBVA and telcom giant DoCoMo.

• Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp suspends service after security breach

  Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for trading the digital bitcoin currency,...

• Bitcoin Hash Rate exceeds 1 EH/s For the First Time - Bitcoinist.com

  The Bitcoin mining network has reached 1 Exa Hash per second, has become the largest and most powerful distributed supercomputer on the planet.

• Bitcoin now accepted by 100,000 merchants worldwide

  More than 100,000 merchants now accept bitcoin, including Microsoft, Expedia and Twitch.

• Kyle Torpey (@kyletorpey)

  No, that isn't Satoshi posting from his P2P Foundation account today. However, this email from 2015 may have been his last public message: https://t.co/FDMdUIYNs4 Twitter

• All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph VaughnPerling, Trace Mayer, Nick Sz... - Presented at Bitcoin Investor Conference - Las Vegas, NV Oct. 29 - 30, 2015
• Bitcoin’s PR challenges

Bitcoin Foundation

• bitcoinfoundation.org
• Bitcoin Foundation – Supporting Education, Adoption and Developm...

  The Bitcoin Foundation is a nonprofit organization aiming to make Bitcoin a globally accepted method of exchanging and storing value without third parties.

• BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch)

  The Bitcoin Foundation We take a nostalgic look back at the history of Bitcoin, focusing on "The Bitcoin Foundation", once one of the most prominent organisations in the ecosystem. We examine its failings, which ultimately lead to a loss of legitimacy https://t.co/AO49eE...

• @BitcoinErrorLog on the original Bitcoin Foundation

  "I was a paying member of the original Bitcoin Foundation. They were mostly a train wreck. I attended their annual meeting at a conference in Amsterdam and met with their accounting person to ask some hard questions. She was actually pretty savvy. /1"

2016

• Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus

  On February 21st, 2016, in Hong Kong’s Cyberport, representatives from the bitcoin industry and members of the development community have…

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

  From the start, I’ve always said the same thing: Bitcoin is an experiment and like all experiments, it can fail. So don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose. I’ve said this in interviews, on stage at conferences, and over email. So have other well known developers like Gavin Andresen and Jeff Garzik.

  But despite knowing that Bitcoin could fail all along, the now inescapable conclusion that it has failed still saddens me greatly. The fundamentals are broken and whatever happens to the price in the short term, the long term trend should probably be downwards. I will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and have sold all my coins.

• Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester)

  I'm sure it'll be of interest to historians how contemporary news outlets repeated Hearn's erroneous narrative with virtually no critical sidenotes. https://t.co/zedrsNEcgC

• Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester)

  @nic__carter And the fascinating responses to those ragequit posts. One day these will be compiled and studied as the "federalist papers" and "anti-federalist papers" are today. https://t.co/aEmAwYJaDt

2017 Scaling Battles

• The most epic bull run in history. The Age of Bitcoin. (update) fo...

  The original chart contained a donation address in violation of house rules and the chart is now invisible to the public. I will post updated screenshots below. If this is your first time on this chart, this was a forecast from Feb 2017 back when Bitcoin was in the $800's. T...

• [Bitcoin-segwit2x] Alpha Milestone

  'Bitcoin companies serve users, and we should not lose track of that.' Of course we serve users. That's why we know the current situation is untenable and our collective inaction has done them a great dis-service. We've collected 100,000's (nearly a million) data points that show our users rate bitcoin for its fast, cheap and reliable transactions first and secondly (a close second), as a store of value. On these metrics, bitcoin has severely underperformed relative to its potential and the rest of the market for the last two years. I'd imagine Coinbase's data is quite similar, as is every other consumer service I've spoken with (nearly all of them fwiw. It is *because *our users that I feel we must act. If anything, I feel the weight of that responsibility heavily -- not listening to users is a luxury that I don't have, as opposed to some companies which do not have any actual bitcoin customers.

• Samourai + OXT - samouraiwallet

  Today we have an announcement that is a little bit different than our usual wallet updates, but we hope you’ll share in our excitement. We are very happy to announce that Samourai has finalized the acquisition of the blockchain explorer, visualization tool, and analysis pla...

• Bitcoin value rises over $1 billion as Japan, Russia move to legit...

  Bitcoin is up nearly $100 in the past week, hitting levels not seen since mid-March after Japan legalized the cryptocurrency as a payment method.

• Poloniex - Crypto Asset Exchange
• Jonas Schnelli (@jonasschnelli)

  Bitcoin Core Git Stats 2017: - Total pull requests created: 1'843 (~5 per day) - Merged pull requests: 1'195 (~3.27 per day) - GitHub comments/reviews: 21'153 (~57.95 per day) - Commits: 3'277 (~8.98 per day) - Git contributors (merged code): 161 - GitHub contributor...

• Will This Battle For The Soul Of Bitcoin Destroy It?

  The cypherpunks who created Bitcoin face off against the Silicon Valley CEOs who popularized it. But could the battle doom the original cryptocurrency itself? By NATHANIEL POPPER

• Some Bitcoin Backers Are Defecting to Create a Rival Currency

  Bitcoin Cash, to be available Aug. 1, sprang from a feud over how to govern a decentralized, open-source technology with no one set of leaders or owners.

• Battle for ‘True’ Bitcoin Is Just Getting Started

  In August, the bitcoin world split in two when bitcoin cash broke away from bitcoin. It was the culmination of years of growing tension about how to improve the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. The divide has set up a battle over which is the “true” bitcoin, pitting rivals whose combined market value has eclipsed that of Citigroup Inc. and Coca-Cola Co.

• Bitcoin loses a quarter of its value in one day's trading

  Cryptocurrency’s year-end rally fails as its investors are ‘finally introduced to the law of financial gravity’

• Steam Announces It Is 'No Longer Supporting Bitcoin'

  "It has become untenable to support Bitcoin as a payment option."

• James McCue (@jamestmccue)

  Erik you know if I’m right about what I might have misread but - was segwit resisted because it broke a model of ASICS that Jihan had warehouses full of? And forking to BCH was the fallback plan so Jihan could sell the miners he’d made? I read that somewhere. Straighten me out.

• ‎Unchained: What Bitcoin's History Says About Its Future
• Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain, on Its Dark Pool, Crypto Lending Operation and Intention to Go Public - ‎Unchained: Ep.122 - Jun 4, 2019
• ‎Epicenter - Ep Nick Morgan: The DAO, the SEC and the ICO Boom - Aug 29, 2017
• UASF/bitcoin

  Bitcoin Core UASF BIP148. Download:. Contribute to UASF/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

• The Long Road to SegWit: How Bitcoin’s Biggest Protocol Upgrade...

  Segregated Witness (SegWit) has activated on Bitcoin. But activation did not come easy, and it did not come fast. This is a look back at the long road to SegWit.

• Bitcoin Scaling Battles (Big vs Small Blockers: SegWit vs SegWit2x...
• Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
• Bitcoin’s Constitutional Crisis & Why I Support the UASF Description = "It took three years and the emergence of serious (and perhaps permanent) crypto rivals, but there finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel in this round of the bitcoin scaling debate. Thank god.\n\nThe impending activation of BIP 148, AKA bitcoin’s “user activated soft fork”, due to take effect on August 1, would ensure that SegWit, an optimization feature that increases block capacity, gets activated without strings attached."
• @francispouliot Looking back on UASF [ϟ]

  1/ Full text of the article: 'After the one year anniversary of Bitcoin’s iconic User Activated Soft Fork, we had the pleasure of speaking with Francis Pouliot, CEO of Bylls, a major proponent in the campaign to keep Bitcoin under its users’ control.

• #NO2X - JOIN THE WAR!
• r/Bitcoin - [Segwit2x attack] Here Jeff Garzik is trying to hide 2...
• Jeff Garzik SegWit2x Bitcoin ‘Upgrade’ Comments Spark Trolling... - Jeff Garzik has gained his own imitation account criticizing his support of SegWit2x.
• Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017
• 2x or NO2X: Why Some Want to Hard Fork Bitcoin — and Why Others ...

  SegWit2x is highly controversial. Here are some of the arguments for and against in this latest debate over the Bitcoin protocol.

• Jeff Garzik (@jgarzik)

  The paid "[no2x]" astroturfing campaign: https://t.co/u2mz01oNMh

2018

• Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

  Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year in which “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

• Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 2)

  Bitcoin technologies made great progress in 2018. In part two of our series, we look at advances in privacy, sidechains and Schnorr signatures.

• Bitcoin By the Numbers: 2018 Recap

  I’ve always been fascinated with the raw numbers relating to the operational status and growth of Bitcoin, especially as we ride the…

• Baltic Honeybadger 2018 Bitcoin conference, Riga, day 1

  Timestamp: 35:48 - The Reserve Currency Fallacy by Eric Voskuil 1:05:34 - Trustlessness, Scalability, and Directions in Security Models by Matt Corallo 1:41:...

• Who Will Steal Satoshi’s Bitcoins?
• Bitcoin Is Not Dead

  Bitcoin has been declared dead 309 times, and its most recent struggles aren't any different than the past.

• Bitcoin Stumble Shows Bitmain a Ghost of Crises Past
• Francis Pouliot ☣️ (@francispouliot_)

  1/ Full text of the article: "After the one year anniversary of Bitcoin’s iconic User Activated Soft Fork, we had the pleasure of speaking with Francis Pouliot, CEO of Bylls, a major proponent in the campaign to keep Bitcoin under its users’ control." https://t.co/Dlw...

• Francis Pouliot ☣️ (@francispouliot_)

  "Looking Back at UASF" My interview with @MattoshiN in @21Cryptos magazine, short historical article on Bitcoin's most critical juncture. I depict the events from my point of view and what it meant for me. #UASF was a game of chicken between users and the Bitmain cartel. ...

• Bitcoin’s Constitutional Crisis & Why I Support the UASF

  It took three years and the emergence of serious (and perhaps permanent) crypto rivals, but there finally seems to be some light at the end…

• Full bech32 support, introducing Boltzmann and... - samouraiwallet

  We are very happy to announce the release of Samourai 0.98.5 available to update via Google Play for existing testers, install from Google Play for new testers, or build from source on Github. This update is filled with new functionality and improvements, so let’s get right...

• The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
• eToro (@eToro)

  Today begins the countdown to Bitcoin’s birthday on 31 October! Over the next 10 days, we’ll take a look at what some of the most prominent names in big tech have to say about crypto… #bitcoin10 #happybdaybitcoin #btcbirthday

• Bitcoin's January fall wipes off $44bn in value

  US investigation into boom stokes fears of impending bust as cryptocurrency records steepest monthly slide in its history

• When It Comes to Volatility, Tech Stocks Are the New Bitcoin
• Bitcoin continues to tumble, briefly breaking below $6,000

  With Monday's declines, bitcoin has now lost more than 50 percent for the year so far.

• Larry Cermak (@lawmaster)

  To all the Bitfinex/Tether apologists - please read this fucking document. It's a really good read that explains the whole situation and how Bitfinex facilitated what NY AG claims is fraud. https://t.co/loDto7hLeO

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #27: 2018 Year-in-Review Special

  This week’s newsletter is a special year-end edition summarizing notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2018. Despite the extended length of this newsletter, we regret that it only covers a tiny fraction of the work put into dozens of open source projects by hundreds...

• RIP “crypto” – TechCrunch

  RIP “crypto”. You had a good run. This week veteran cryptographer Matt Blaze, finally gave in — to what must have been a near-constant, low-level drone of ‘CAn Buy Crypto.com???$$$$!’ spam — and sold the pithy domain name he registered in 1993, in the midst of th…

• Bitcoin Core Bug CVE-2018–17144: An Analysis
• Bitcoin Stumble Shows Bitmain a Ghost of Crises Past

  "A look at Bitmain Technologies Ltd.’s financials reveal the Chinese company sold a lot of shovels during the crypto gold rush of the past two years. Its mistake was to take digital gold as payment instead of cash. \n\nBut there are two other items that could make matters worse for Bitmain and others in the crypto-mining ecosystem, adding to pressure on the balance sheet."

• Sizhao Yang (@zaoyang)

  1/ What are the experiments from crypto in 2015 to 2018? What are the underlying beliefs and thesis that were validated or invalidated? Feel free to add your own. https://t.co/bYdVngUvvY

• Bitcoin Pioneer Who Gave Away Over $100 Million Has No Regrets
• What a Bitcoin Evangelist Thinks About Cryptocurrency’s Terrible 2018

  “Actually, it was a year of tremendous innovation in the space because all of the loud speculative voices went away.”

• The 2019 Crypto Crystal Ball - Token Daily

  Looking in the rear-view mirror of 2018 not only offers us a moment of reflection, but shows us what’s plausible for the year ahead.

2019

• Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong)

  1/ Today is a big day for Bitcoin, as it marks 10 years since the Genesis Block. Some people think I don’t like to talk about Bitcoin, but today I have a few words to say

• Rhythm (@Rhythmtrader)

  The last time Bitcoin rose above $9,000: Fidelity wasn't storing it. Congress wasn't fighting it. Bakkt wasn't launching with it. Microsoft wasn't building on it. TD Ameritrade wasn't trading it. Whole Foods wasn't accepting it. Facebook wasn't competing with it.

• Bitcoin Price Hits $11.5K Target: BTC Up 8%, Dips Well Supported |...

  There were solid gains in bitcoin price above $11,000 against the US Dollar. BTC price is up more than 8%, broke the $11,200 hurdle, and it tested the $11,500 resistance area.

• Unconfirmed: Insights and Analysis From the Top Minds in Crypto: B...

  Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discusses how hackers likely obtained $40 million worth of Bitcoin in a hack on Binance, how the leading crypto exchange could have incentivized miners to reorganize the blocks, and what the possibility says about the game theory of Bitcoin. W...

• The Tangle in Taipei: Arthur Hayes vs Nouriel Roubini | Bitcoin | ...

  Arthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX and Professor Nouriel Roubini debate the merits of cryptocurrencies at the Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei, Taiwan

• [ Romano ] (@RNR_0)

  I just uploaded the recoding so you can download/listen to it. https://t.co/BnkWGJbmky

• http://bitcoinsnippets.com/bitcoin-news-june-2019/

Lightning Network

• Leon Johnson (@leonjohnson)

  A thread reviewing the different Lightning implementations from a developers POV

• The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta - CryptoQuikRead_043

  The Lightning Network, the long-awaited Bitcoin overlay network for cheap and instant transactions, has passed a major milestone that has been years in the making. This is the story so far.

• Lightning in 2018

  Below is an archived and reformatted tweetstorm from Nov 29, 2018. Enjoy! #1 Lightning Network is on fire lately 12500 channels (up 38% this

• Lightning Network Timeline - The history of the Lightning Network
• Christian Decker - History of the Lightning Network

  Christian Decker describes the history of off-chain protocols built on Bitcoin, from incrementing nSequence numbers to eltoo.

• Nick Szabo 🔑 (@NickSzabo4)

  Some ancestors of Lightning: perhaps there are still a few things we can learn from them

  Digital Silk Road: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.9665

  Interledger: https://interledger.org/rfcs/0003-interledger-protocol/

• Infamous Pizza Buyer Who Paid 10,000 Bitcoin Orders Again (But This Time on the Lightning Network)

  On May 18, 2010, when bitcoin was still measured in cents per coin, a Hungarian truck driver became famous for effecting the first real-world cryptocurrency transaction, buying two pizzas with the cryptocurrency. Laszlo Hanyecz paid what would now be an unthinkable 10,000 BTC...

• Noded 0.12.0 with Alex Bosworth

  Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard do a deep dive with Alex Bosworth into the world of Lightning App development.

• ‎Show Zero Knowledge, Ep Episode 73: J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network & Building Bolt - Apr 17, 2019
• Bitcoin News - June 2019

  This month Bitcoin passed 1M daily active addresses again, like during the all-time price high in 2017, there was a lot of educational content, some new research proposals for layer 2 protocols and the Lightning Network, and the ₿ symbol gets adopted by Apple, Google & Micr...

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