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*18 – ArtForz becomes one of the earliest GPU miners. | *18 – ArtForz becomes one of the earliest GPU miners. | ||
===August=== | ===August=== | ||
*15 – [[CVE-2010-5139]] | *15 – 184 billion bitcoins [[CVE-2010-5139|created artificially]] in block 74638. 53 blocks into a chain fork, the updated chain overtakes the erroneous one and the fraudulent bitcoins cease to exist. | ||
===September=== | |||
*14 – Block 79764 is the first to be solved with split allocation of the block reward. | |||
*18 – [[Jeff Garzik]] pays [[puddinpop]] 10,000 BTC (~$625) to make their Windows-based CUDA client open source. | |||
*29 – kermit discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed. | |||
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Revision as of 23:38, 3 March 2015
2010
Bitcoin year | 2 |
First block | 32490 |
Initial supply | 1,624,500 BTC |
Difficulty | 1.18 — 14,484 |
Block reward | 50 BTC |
2010 was the year after the year of Bitcoin's launch.
Events
February
- 06 – Bitcoin Market, the first exchange, is launched.
May
- 22 – laszlo, a GPU miner, makes the first documented purchase of a good in exchange for bitcoins; two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.
July
- 07 – Bitcoin v0.3 is released.
- 11 – News of the latest release propagates to Slashdot, causing a large influx of bitcoin users.
- 12 – Bitcoin value begins rising rapidly, going from $0.008 to $0.08 over the next five days.
- 17 – Mt. Gox is established.
- 18 – ArtForz becomes one of the earliest GPU miners.
August
- 15 – 184 billion bitcoins created artificially in block 74638. 53 blocks into a chain fork, the updated chain overtakes the erroneous one and the fraudulent bitcoins cease to exist.
September
- 14 – Block 79764 is the first to be solved with split allocation of the block reward.
- 18 – Jeff Garzik pays puddinpop 10,000 BTC (~$625) to make their Windows-based CUDA client open source.
- 29 – kermit discovers a glitch that prevents transactions referencing small outputs from being confirmed.