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Timeline of history events related to bitcoin before it was released to the public by Satoshi Nakamoto

Il Priorato del Bitcoin

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  • 1974

    Cerf and Khan

    A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication - TCP/IP

  • 1976

    W. Diffie and M. Hellman

    New directions in Cryptography

  • 1978

    R. Rivest, A. Shamir and L. Adleman

    RSA Public-key Cryptosystems

  • 1980

    Raplh Merkle

    Protocols for public key cryptosystems

  • 1981

    David Chaum

    Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Address and Digital Pseudonyms

  • 1982

    Murray Rothbard

    The Ethics of Liberty

  • 1983

    David Chaum

    Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments

  • 1985

    Neal Koblitz

    Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  • 1988

    Timothy C. May

    The Crypto-Anarchist's Manifesto

  • 1989

    David Chaum

    founded Digicash

  • 1991

    Philip Zimmermann

    Pretty Good Privacy - PGP

  • 1991

    S. Haber and W.S. Stornetta

    How to time-stamp a digital document

  • 1992

    E. Hughes, T. C. May and J. Gilmore

    founded Cypherpunks in San Francisco

  • 1992

    Tim Berners-Lee

    World Wide Web - WWW

  • 1993

    Eric Hughes

    A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

  • 1994

    Timothy C. May

    The Cyphernomicon

  • 1994

    Daniel C. Lynch

    CyberCash

  • 1996

    D. Jackson and B. Downey

    E-gold

  • 1996

    NSA

    How To Make A Mint

  • 1997

    Adam Back

    HashCash, DOS counter-measure w/ proof-of-work

  • 1997

    Nick Szabo

    Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks - Smart contracts, Third part vulnerabilities

  • 1998

    Nick Szabo

    Securing Property Titles with Owner Authority - Timestamped database

  • 1998

    Nick Szabo

    BitGold

  • 1998

    Wei Dai

    B-money - decentralized database to record txs and using a type of proof-of-work

  • 2001

    Video game currencies and market

    Distributed Hash Tables

  • 2001

    Bram Cohen

    BitTorrent

  • 2004

    Hal Finney

    Reusable Proof-of-work

  • 2006

    First Payment Processor

    Liberty Reserve

  • 2008

    Lehman Brothers

    Bankruptcy - Sep, 15 2008

  • 2008

    Satoshi Nakamoto - Whitepaper

    Bitcoin: A Peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System - Oct, 31 2008

  • 2009
    Bitcoin Inception
    Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks - Jan 3, 2009
  • 2016

    Joseph Poon, Thaddeus Dryja

    The Bitcoin Lightning Network - Jan, 14 2016

  • 2024
    Price hit 100K US$
    Milestone reached - first time over 100K US$ - Dec 5, 2024
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