Resources and Timelines

• Bitcoin History — p2pfoundation
• lopp.net - BITCOIN HISTORY

  Bitcoin didn’t simply appear out of thin air - it was built upon decades of work and came after many failed digital currency projects. Understanding how we got here will help you understand where we’re going.

• Visions of Bitcoin—How major Bitcoin narratives changed over time

  Conflicts within Bitcoin thus arise from entities who hold visions of the protocol that are mutually exclusive — and this leads to friction when these visions cannot be reconciled. Visions of Bitcoin are not static. Technological developments, practical realities and real-world events have shaped collective views. This post is an attempt to aggregate the various dominant narratives that have characterized Bitcoin throughout its 9-year history. This post builds on excellent prior work by Murad Mahmudov and Adam Taché, and we suggest you add that to your reading list.

• Revolutions and Counter Revolutions: Andreas Antonopoulos Reflects on 10 years of Bitcoin

  In the following interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Antonopoulos reflects on the metamorphosis the ecosystem has undergone over the past decade.

• History of bitcoin

  Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to control its creation and management, rather than relying on central authorities. The presumed pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto integrated many existing ideas from the …

• Iterative Capital Management Thesis - What’s Really Driving the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon?

  In this paper, we introduce investors to the socio-economic factors that led to the development of Bitcoin, and which will shape its future.

• Blockchain aimed to protect Bitcoin, but these 5 scams show it mis…

  Check out some of the worst bitcoin scams in history: From fraudulent companies to simple lies that brought down whole exchanges, here’s how people have been stealing bitcoins…and what you should be aware of if you want to invest.

• Do Libertarians Dream Of Electric Coins? The Material Embeddedness Of Bitcoin
• Collin Enstad 🌮 (@CollinEnstad)

  So anyone know who @shaolinfry is? This anon dev appears to show up out of nowhere to jump start the UASF movement, and disappears afterwards. A real organic and grassroots movement! https://t.co/LkM3jfwfLC

• notsofast (@notsofast)

  If you’re new(er), look up some of these (anti)heroes from $crypto past. Shadow_runner presstab The Story Of Bob Surplus Wolong OTOH Kazonomics IGotSpots

• The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne

  Patrick Byrne, the founder and longtime CEO of former e-tailing giant Overstock.com, recently resigned, saying his involvement as a federal informant in the investigation of accused Russian spy Maria Butina made performing his duties impossible. That’s not the whole story. This is.

• Dan Hedl (@danheld)

  1/ Satoshi’s Vision™ is a silly endeavor, as it doesn’t matter what it was, we are where we are now. However, those pushing the “Bitcoin was first made for payments” narrative insist on cherry-picking sentences from the white paper and forum posts to champion their perspective. 2/ The following tweetstorm is a categorical repudiation of this tired narrative. Bitcoin was purpose-built to first be a Store of Value (SoV), a thread:

• ‎The Cryptoconomy Podcast: My Favorite Bitcoin Holidays? A Walk with Guy Through Bitcoin History
• ‎Darknet Diaries: Ep 22: Mini-Stories: Vol 1 on Apple Podcasts (16:00 hackers windfarm bitcoin mining)

  Early crypto jackers reach symbiosis w windfarm

  “We now have a faster and more reliable patch cycle”

• WhiteRabbit (@WhiteRabbitBTC)

  Bitcoin Hall of Shame

• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2777849.0

  My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks

• Bitcoin’s Origins and the Genesis Blockade

  “In this talk, Andreas recounts the origins of Bitcoin, the meaning of the message embedded forever in its genesis block, and how we figured out who the banks truly serve when there was no other choice. He also speaks about what happens when money stops working, why censorship resistance was one of Bitcoin’s most valuable characteristics from the start, and what possibilities lay in store with a global, voluntary financial system.”

• @PeterLBrandt on ‘Bubbles’ - Us old-timers always considered a decline greater than 80% to be a bubble that popped. Most altcoins must be legitimately considered as bubbles that popped. The dead-cat bounces from the resulting decimation can be wicked.
• CryptoQuikRead_089 - Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future
• CryptoQuikRead_180 - Bitcoin at 10
• On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies
• The coming digital anarchy

  Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the same technology threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, even national governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future where centralised power of any kind will dissolve?

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Resources

• https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin_history
• Blockchain Libarary - Reading Lists - Bitcoin History
• Bitcoin History - OXT - “This page lists a set of ‘famous’ events or lesser-known facts which are all part of the history of Bitcoin. Each event is illustrated with data extracted from the blockchain.
• wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Bitcoin#History
• Bitcoin History

  Bitcoin didn’t simply appear out of thin air - it was built upon decades of work and came after many failed digital currency projects. Understanding how we got here will help you understand where we’re going.

  • The Rise of the Cypherpunks
  • A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
  • Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree
  • cryptoanarchy.wiki
  • Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Original Announcement Email Thread
  • Historical Literature (work that preceded Bitcoin)
  • History Timeline
  • Bryan Bishop’s Bitcoin Event Transcripts
  • Premature Obituaries
  • Bitcoin’s Family Tree
• The three economic eras of Bitcoin

  “The way the bitcoin ecosystem will play out is written in the mathematics of its consensus rules; we should all know the three phases it will go through.”

• SLP23 – Economic Eras of Bitcoin, and Lightning Development

  “Rusty Russell, a well known and respected Bitcoin Lightning developer at Blockstream joins me in this episode. We talk about his article, The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin, and discuss the Lightning Network for Bitcoin. Lastly, Rusty draws from his prior experience as a Linux kernel developer to contrast Linux development with Bitcoin and Lightning development practices and culture.”

• Bryan Bishop’s Bitcoin Event Transcripts 2009-2019
• Research Archive - CoinDesk
• Untold Stories Podcast with Charlie Shrem

  On Untold Stories, host Charlie Shrem dives deep into the lives and personal histories of some of crypto’s most influential leaders

• Bitcoin news snippets
• P2P Foundation Wiki
• https://nakamotoinstitute.org/
• btcmanager.com/tag/history

Princeton - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course

• Bitcoin History: From the Cypherpunk Movement to JPMorgan Chase
• History of Cryptocurrencies [Bonus lecture]

Death of Bitcoin

• Bitcoin is not Dead

  “The first recorded claim of bitcoin’s demise was in 2010, on a little-known blog that found itself posted on a record of “bitcoin obituaries” collected by 99Bitcoins, a bitcoin information site. While I consider myself among the first wave of bitcoin writers, having written my first article on the subject in 2011, this early claim of bitcoin’s death came when the cryptocurrency was valued at only $0.23. It is now worth almost $7,000.”

• The Skeptics - A Tribute to Bold Assertions - nakamotoinstitute.org
• Bitcoin Obituaries - Bitcoin Declared Dead 350+ Times (2019 Updated)

  Until today Bitcoin has died more than 350 times. We collect Bitcoin obituaries since 2010. Found a Bitcoin obituary? submit it to us.

Timelines

• Bitcoin History: Timeline, Origins and Founder

  “The history of Bitcoin has been a turbulent one to say the least, and right now we’re in one of the most turbulent periods in its history, as it has spent the entirety of 2018 falling further and further from its peak value of nearly $20,000 in December 2017.

  But something as uncertain as Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency in general) was never going to be smooth sailing. Many tried a cryptographed digital currency before it, and they weren’t able to fully crack it. Since Bitcoin became a reality nearly a decade ago, there have been some high highs and some low lows. For some Bitcoin owners, that’s part of the appeal.

  But how did we get to where we are today with Bitcoin? How did it begin, what were its forebearers, and what have been the unexpected turns of the Bitcoin journey? Let’s take a walk through the timeline and find out.”

• Bitcoin History: The Complete History of Bitcoin [Timeline]

  The History of Bitcoin is a timeline that illustrates Bitcoin History from the very beginning all the way to present day. Learn what there is to know.

• Hobbes’ Blockchain Timeline 0.1 Blockchain, Bitcoin, Distributed Ledgers, Smart Contracts and Cryptocurrencies

  A timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies that helped shape the current state of blockchains, cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.

• Bitcoin and Markets - Bitcoin History - Timeline of important research and events since 1970.

Best 101 Bitcoin Facts – the Infographic

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