CRYPTO HISTORY · SOURCES MATTER

The cycles had real consequences.

A sourced timeline of crypto milestones and failures, separate from the game’s fictional prices and random outcomes.

A curated, expandable archive. It does not claim to cover every event worldwide.

82 · Historical record

2009-01-08Historical record

Bitcoin v0.1 announced

Satoshi Nakamoto announced the first Bitcoin release in a mailing-list message dated 8 January UTC.

Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin v0.1 released

2009-01-03Historical record

The mainnet genesis block has timestamp 1231006505, corresponding to 3 January 2009 UTC.

Bitcoin Core: mainnet genesis block parameters