🗽 New York Launches BitLicense
On June 24, 2015, the New York State Department of Financial Services officially adopted #BitLicense.
Upon its enactment, BitLicense made New York the first US state to officially launch a tailored approach to regulating #bitcoin and digital currencies.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748768154.805644/index.html#archive_dot_org
🪦 Bitcoin Obituary
On June 23, 2018, CNBC held a live funeral for #Bitcoin. The clickbait once again proved unfounded.
#BTC price at the time of the clownery was $6,027.
👮♂️ New Zealand Police Seizes $90M from BTC-e Accounts
On June 22, 2020, New Zealand police confiscated 140 million New Zealand dollars (US$91 million) from Russian #bitcoin exchange operator Alexander Vinnik.
The funds were seized from the bank accounts of Canton Business Corporation, a New Zealand-registered company operating the exchange.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748775270.36037/index.html
🇮🇷 Iran Seizes 7,000 Bitcoin Miners
On June 22, 2021, Iranian police seized 7,000 #bitcoin miners at an abandoned factory in Tehran. This was the largest #mining equipment seizure operation in history.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748776907.229248/index.html#original
It soon will be actually 😅
Anyhow coin redistribution shows positive trends - meaning more and more people own some, hence less people have a lot over time (some exceptions obviously apply) - so even when quantum computer overlords get their hands on sleeping coins, they will eventually have to sell. Some may argue this is an even better outcome.
🗣️ Satoshi on Lost Coins
On June 21, 2010, Satoshi commented on the bitcointalk forum regarding lost coins.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748725376.435397/index.html
🛑 EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin Donations
On June 20, 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (#EFF) announced it would stop accepting #bitcoin donations. This happened just five months after the foundation embraced Bitcoin as new payment rails, and, interestingly, only a few days after #Wikileaks announced they had almost no other funding alternatives left besides Bitcoin.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748731210.790567/index.html#original
🧡 Bitcoin Symbol Added to Unicode
On June 20, 2017, the #Bitcoin symbol was encoded in #Unicode version 10.0 at position U+20BF (₿) in the Currency Symbols block.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748771798.417169/index.html
Thanks, something went wrong. Changed to nostrcheck.me for now, will look into it.
🔓 MtGox Database Hack
On June 19, 2011, the #MtGox database was hacked. User data, containing information on 60,000 logins, email addresses, and password hashes, some of which were too simple and susceptible to brute-force attacks, was leaked.
On the same day, someone managed to gain access to MtGox's admin panel and place sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake #bitcoin, causing the price on MtGox to drop from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. Mt.Gox announced that these trades would be reversed.
Trading on MtGox was halted for 7 days. Trading was also briefly suspended on #TradeHill and #Britcoin while their security was checked.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748730904.596651/index.html#content.html
📉 Bitcoin Price Crash
On June 19, 2011, the price of #bitcoin plummeted from $17 to $0.01 literally before one's eyes. The cause of the crash was the hack of the Mt.Gox exchange.
Hey, Gigi, I’ve got 500+ historical #Bitcoin and freedom tech events to 👀
Don’t forget to follow 🤗
👮♂️ NSA Publishes Report on Anonymous Electronic Cash
On June 18, 1996, the NSA published the report "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash." The report only became public on October 31.
This report reviews the scientific literature on cryptographic methods for implementing secure electronic cash systems.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748723653.125244/index.html#
🗣️ Satoshi on Bitcoin's Versatility
On June 17, 2010, Satoshi commented on a unique property of #Bitcoin's design.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748725219.431873/index.html
🛰️ "Star Wars" Transaction
On June 17, 2014, a unique "Star Wars" #Bitcoin transaction was broadcasted giving tribute to the fourth episode of a legendary saga "A New Hope."
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748765041.762533/index.html
🏦 BlackRock Files for iShares ETF
On June 15, 2023, investment giant #BlackRock filed an application to create a spot #bitcoin exchange-traded fund (#ETF), using #Coinbase for coin custody and pricing.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748778722.988958/index.html
🗣️ Satoshi on SHA256
On June 14, 2010, Satoshi shared a solution in case the current algorithm underlying #Bitcoin, #SHA256, was compromised or lost its resistance to external attacks.
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748725138.603014/index.html
ℹ️ Wikileaks Starts Accepting Bitcoin
On June 14, 2011, #Wikileaks began accepting #bitcoin as a measure to combat the politically motivated banking blockade by leading banks and payment service providers under US influence.
The attack destroyed 95% of the organization's revenue, and were it not for Bitcoin, Wikileaks might have ceased to exist.
Remember that freedom of speech is inseparable from free money!
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748730644.956549/index.html
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As Eric Hughes said back in 1996, code alone doesn’t cut it.
“Perhaps the single most important lesson I've learned from cypherpunks
1s that code alone doesn't cut it.
Not code alone, not code widely
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Somemeasureoftoleratton1n society for activities conducted in private is _necessary for long
term success.
Not convenient, not easier,
but necessary.”
Historical database of events is populated and pushed to GitHub 👨💻
Of course, I already have a couple dozen more events I want to add, but there’s time for everything.
I am now doing a lot of under the hood work expanding the database with the contents of our archive.
Big updates coming next week 🤞
Stay tuned and don’t forget to support the project ⚡️
https://github.com/Bitcoin-Calendar/calendar-api-db
No, “After completing his revenge and destroying 13 buildings, the man committed suicide and became the sole fatality of the event.”
⛽️ Gas for Bitcoin
On June 2, 2011, a bitcoiner nicknamed PLATO, traversing the USA from east to west using only #bitcoin, paid for gasoline by sending 0.75 BTC to a community member who, in turn, spent "dirty fiat" to fuel the bitcoiner's car.
mybitcoin.com was used to facilitate the exchange.
1 BTC = $10
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📝 Gawker Article on Bitcoin, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox
On June 1, 2011, Adrian Chen's Gawker article, titled "The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable", focusing on #SilkRoad and #Bitcoin, was published.
Thanks to a link to #MtGox within the article, excitement around Bitcoin sharply increased, and the price surged.
- https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748720655.779005/index.html#
Another big update to Bitcoin Calendar 👨💻
Now ArchiveBox is spinning on my server holding all related archives of sources, used by the project 🗃️
You can also browse all the web archives (still being populated, but already holds 300+ historical pages and docs) by visiting our archive directly 👇
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/
FOSS FTW 💜
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Today I focused on the “Archiving” part of Bitcoin Calendar’s promise.
📦 ArchiveBox - a self hosted web page archiving tool - is now up and running on the project’s VPS.
Now I’ll be able to migrate all the events’ reference links to point to Bitcoin Calendars own web archive. This will greatly improve UX and allow visitors to browse all relevant archived links. Lots of benefits are also on the horizon for future development.
The work goes on 🫡
You can have a sneak peek at freshly set up Bitcoin Calendar archive below 👇
https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/
