📚 'Number Zero and Bitcoin' | March 29, 2020
Robert Breedlove published 'Number Zero and Bitcoin' — a thought-provoking piece linking Bitcoin to the fundamental nature of money, power, and civilization.
🤑 Bitcoin Hits a Billion | March 28, 2013
For the first time, Bitcoin's market capitalization soared past $1 billion. The world was starting to pay attention—this wasn't just 'magic internet money' anymore. 
👨💻 Hashcash: A Glimpse Into Bitcoin's Future | March 28, 1997
Before #Bitcoin, there was #Hashcash. On this day, Adam Back introduced the world to a proof-of-work system designed to fight email spam — never knowing it would later form the backbone of Bitcoin #mining. Thank you, Adam!
🗃️: https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1997/03/msg00774.html
🗞️ The First Bitcoin Magazine | March-27-2012
Bitcoin's first print magazine, 'Coineer - The Bitcoin Magazine', launched in Canadian bookstores, later expanding to the U.S. The quarterly publication covered Bitcoin adoption, businesses, and industry developments. 
🇬🇧 Britcoin: The UK's First Bitcoin Exchange | March 26, 2011
Paving the way for Bitcoin adoption in the UK, Britcoin launched on this day in 2011. It allowed users to trade BTC directly for British pounds — back when Bitcoin was still a niche experiment. 
🦘 DigiCash Debuts in Australia | March 26, 1996
David Chaum's vision of #digital cash crossed oceans. On this day, DigiCash officially launched in Australia, bringing cryptographic payments to the land down under — years before #Bitcoin would perfect the dream. 
https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/03-26-96-DigiCash-Opens-for-Business-in-Australia-1.pdf
Some non-bitcoin history for you, frens
That’s kinda the point - this is how traditional media covered a simple story. I should add or even write a detailed one with proper coverage.
Thanks for the feedback!
🕰️ 'Moscow Time' Meme is Born | March 25, 2021
During a congressional hearing, Jack Dorsey's Blockclock Mini, displaying the sats/USD rate, sparked confusion in the normieland. Cybersecurity analyst Chris Vickery mistakenly claimed it showed Moscow time, fueling conspiracy theories. Bitcoiners embraced the term 'Moscow Time' as shorthand for the sat/USD conversion rate: the lower it is, the stronger Bitcoin's purchasing power. When 00:00 strikes, it's hyperbitcoinization time, baby.
https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-weird-clock-on-jack-dorseys-kitchen-counter-1846553535
💾 Cypherpunks Archives | March 25, 1994
Timothy C. May responds to a Cypherpunks mailing list discussion on digital cash, highlighting double-spending as a critical challenge. He proposes online clearing and blinding protocols as potential solutions, though neither fully resolves the issue.
Almost 15 years later, Satoshi Nakamoto shared the Bitcoin whitepaper on the same mailing list, presenting the first complete solution to the double-spending problem. https://i.nostr.build/SE5raM5dLttcJS1k.webp https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/archive/1994/03/b9bcc330ef67da0f0ac96a71799523011f06c61d54ac21b2e381a30a4143e366/
📑 Bitcoin-dev Archives |March 24, 2017
In this email thread, developers explored mining centralization risks, debating empty block attacks and the declining role of independent full nodes. Various ideas were considered to strengthen Bitcoin's security, but no definitive solution emerged. While the issue remains open, discussions like these drive Bitcoin's continuous evolution. 
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/5b9ba6c4-6d8f-9c0b-2420-2be6c30f87b5@cannon-ciota.info/
🏢 Bitcoin Meets Real Estate |March 24, 2012
In a landmark moment for adoption, a Las Vegas asset management company — holding over 100 commercial and residential properties — took the plunge and began accepting bitcoin for rent and real estate purchases. The future of property transactions had just taken a step toward decentralization. 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=73712.msg816851#msg816851
If only we had a way to to authenticate users via a private-public key cryptography 🔐
Maybe looking into history could help us find the solution.
🗣️ Hal Finney Quote (March 23 2011)
Hal Finney cautioned the Bitcointalk community: “You can’t trade your way to success forever.” 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4822.msg70817#msg70817
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🗣️ Hal Finney Quote (March 23 2011)
Hal Finney cautioned the Bitcointalk community: “You can’t trade your way to success forever.”
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4822.msg70817#msg70817
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🗺️ The First Bitcoin Journey
March 21, 2011 marks the first roadtrip across US exclusively paid for with bitcoin. 
👨💻 Base32 address format proposed
On March 20, 2017, Greg Maxwell and Peter Wulle released a document covering the new Bitcoin address format - Base32, which will replace the inferior Base58. Base32 encoding is used in SegWit addresses. 
https://nt4tn.net/papers/bip173.pdf
📧 https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013749.html
👨💻 Base32 address format proposed
On March 20, 2017, Greg Maxwell and Peter Wulle released a document covering the new Bitcoin address format - Base32, which will replace the inferior Base58. Base32 encoding is used in SegWit addresses.
https://nt4tn.net/papers/bip173.pdf
📧 https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013749.html
📚 Publication
On March 19, 2013 Hal Finney published the post 'Bitcoin and I'.
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador
07-09-2021 On this day bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador, making it the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency.
08-15-2004 | RPOW Launch
Today Hal Finney announced the launch or RPOW - Reusable Proof-of-Work - a concept which never lifted off, but became a milestone in shaping a borderless and permissionless currency.
Announcement: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/rpow/
More about Hal and RPOW: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-genesis-files-how-hal-finneys-quest-for-digital-cash-led-to-rpow-and-more
Nixon shock
08-15-1971 | An end to convertibility of US dollar into gold
Nixon directed Treasury Secretary Connally to suspend, with certain exceptions, the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, ordering the gold window to be closed such that foreign governments could no longer exchange their dollars for gold. This marked the initial step towards a detrimental fiat system that saps our time and diminishes the worth of our work and savings.
The detrimental consequences of unlinking currencies from gold are vividly portrayed at https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/.
08-08-2017 Segwit Lock-in
Segregated Witness was officially locked-in at block height 479707.
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https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000008f2e3c9fbd378b02bc2c9ff088ba458a6e6a27fa9493ed
08-01-2017 | Bitcoin Independence Day
Today bitcoiners are celebrating Bitcoin Independence Day. This holiday is the culmination of a two-year war between two camps within the Bitcoin community, defending their vision of how to approach protocol scaling.
Today, in 2017 the UASF softfork was activated, marking the control of users (rather than miners and corporations) over the Bitcoin protocol. Spare 6 minutes to watch this short video by Aaron van Wirdum, where he explains what UASF is and why this softfork is so important to the Bitcoin community and the further development of the protocol.
You can learn more about Bitcoin's Block Size War and the events leading up to UASF from Jonathan Beer's book: https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-1-first-strike/
07-31-2013 | The Shitcoin Day
This day marks the birth of the first ever ICO "utility token" called Mastercoin (later rebranded to Omni).
1M posts on bitcointalk
08/22/2012 - 1 millionths post was published on bitcointalk
First iPad #Bitcoin App
08-22-2011 - The first Bitcoin app for iPad - BitCoins Mobile - was released.
Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin as Payment
07-18-2014
"Dell is now the world’s largest ecommerce business to accept bitcoin." - Michael Dell
https://twitter.com/MichaelDell/status/490162239983599616?s=20
07-11-2010 - Bitcoin v0.3 release was mentioned on slashdot, bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03
BitMeet test post
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Exactly one year ago, Salvadoran students received their first diplomas for completing the 10-week Bitcoin course. The program introduced the children to the theoretical and practical aspects of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.
“In 2021 we taught 400 students in San Salvador, in 2022 we expanded to 12 of the nation’s 14 departments, in March 2023 alone we taught over 5,400 new students.”
Website: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/
The initiative is funded by your donations. You can support Bitcoin education in Salvador by following this link: https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/donate/
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It's back! Sorry - got carried away by so much stuff. Now that I'm concentrated on nostr:npub10eezfnlq4ad2lyf3478na8f5las4l7guuf55vs8378lwtk87hd7slf6zka it is obvious that the calendar will be a nice parallel project to accompany a news resource. Got a major enhancement plan for bitcal too. Stay tuned and I promise to stay on top of things this time.