Early history
See also: 2009
1998
November
2002
August
December
- 09 – An unidentified cypherpunk describes a "virtual coin" on a UK finance newsgroup.
2007
Month unknown
- Date unknown – Satoshi Nakamoto begins developing Bitcoin.
2008
August
- 18 – The bitcoin.org domain name is registered.
- 22 – Satoshi Nakamoto contacts Wei Dai after a referral from Adam Back.
October
- 31 – The Bitcoin white paper is published by Satoshi.
November
- 09 – The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.