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â›Ŋī¸ 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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https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/6e1371644e34bd428c4d3baf4244187dbe5ed1ab8459839b97500bed52c5d28f.mp4

📝 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://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/c8676add71d2d86dfa8d0720ea6d53ba8cb48c89764ff9186dc4f9e5df246e97.webp

- https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748720655.779005/index.html#

đŸ’†â€â™‚ī¸ First Chiropractor Starts Accepting Bitcoin

On June 1, 2011, the first chiropractor began accepting #bitcoin for their services.

The cost of a session at that time was 5 BTC.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/0c7198bc71c68f490c4f8ead45150725f2b0d09e288541b9373a385e76ac08f2.webp

- http://web.archive.org/web/20140106062217/http://patrickdobbins.com/2013/05/02/bc/

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11178.0

📝 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://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/c8676add71d2d86dfa8d0720ea6d53ba8cb48c89764ff9186dc4f9e5df246e97.webp

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140225143909/http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg152988

đŸ’Ŧī¸ Hal Finney on Bitcoin 2.0

On May 30, 2011, Hal Finney explained why relaunching Bitcoin for a "fair distribution" of coins was a bad idea.

https://haven.bitcoin-calendar.org/8bb0cc04183a5218ff49f66857f58761b7a170148e3acd85f8887a19c835c637.webp

đŸ‘¨â€âš–ī¸ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years

On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111610/https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating

đŸĒĻ Bitcoin Obituary

On May 29, 2011, NY Times published an article by Richard Beales, in which he labeled #Bitcoin

"A bubble that bursts when the abstract intellectual appeal fades would probably doom the otherwise creative idea.".

1BTC = $9

- https://web.archive.org/web/20110602031111/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/business/economy/30views.html

đŸ‘¨â€âš–ī¸ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years

On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111610/https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating

đŸĒĻ Bitcoin Obituary

On May 29, 2011, NY Times published an article by Richard Beales, in which he labeled #Bitcoin

"A bubble that bursts when the abstract intellectual appeal fades would probably doom the otherwise creative idea.".

1BTC = $9

- https://web.archive.org/web/20110602031111/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/business/economy/30views.html

đŸ‘¨â€âš–ī¸ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years

On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111610/https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating

đŸĒĻ Bitcoin Obituary

On May 29, 2011, NY Times published an article by Richard Beales, in which he labeled #Bitcoin

"A bubble that bursts when the abstract intellectual appeal fades would probably doom the otherwise creative idea.".

1BTC = $9

- https://web.archive.org/web/20110602031111/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/business/economy/30views.html

đŸ‘¨â€âš–ī¸ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years

On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111610/https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating

đŸ‘¨â€âš–ī¸ Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Double Life + 40 Years

On May 29, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole. Ross was also ordered to pay approximately $183 million in restitution based on the total sales of illegal drugs and 2 fake IDs through #SilkRoad.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111610/https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating

💸 First eCash Payment

On May 27, 1994, at the first World Wide Web conference in Geneva, David Chaum made the first payment using electronic cash and computer networks. [cite: 20] đŸ—ƒī¸:

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References:- https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-27-94-World_s-first-electronic-cash-payment-over-computer-networks.pdf

đŸ™ī¸ New York Disagreement Day

The Bitcoin scaling agreement, better known as the "New York Agreement", jointly proposed by over 50 companies at the Consensus 2017 conference, added fuel to the "block size war" in 2017.

The New York Agreement was intended to end the long-standing debate about #Bitcoin #scaling by increasing block capacity through the activation of Segregated Witness and doubling the block size (i.e., SegWit2X). Read more about these events in Jonathan Bier's book: https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-18-new-york-agreement/