Timeline: Historical events in the development of Bitcoin

Sunday, August 4, 2019

To fully understand the rationale behind the current state of Bitcoin development, knowledge about historical events is essential. I created an open-source project containing the data for a timeline of historical developments in Bitcoin. Most data points are adopted from a talk John Newbery gave on the History and Philosophy of Bitcoin Development. I’ve used this timeline in my blog post The Incomplete History of Bitcoin Development.

This timeline based on an open-source project called bitcoin-development-history. If you have a suggestion about something missing or want to propose a change, please open an issue there.

All text and images in this work are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Creative Commons License

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