Bitcoin Calendar

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) index measures inflation in the US economy based on a fixed basket of goods. As of late, the results of the CPI report have created movement in Bitcoin's price.

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Has The Bitcoin Network Ever Gone Down?

Bitcoin experiences its first network downtime event.

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Bitcoin.org Domain Registered

Satoshi registers the domain name of bitcoin.org.

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Wed

Bitcoin Infinity Day

Bitcoin Infinity Day celebrates the concept of all value being divided into 21 million units (total amount of bitcoin) and encourages users to only hold and sell on August 21.

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Fri

Segwit Activation Day

Segregated Witness (Segwit) officially 'activated' on August 23, 2017, marking an end to the transaction malleability bug and the beginning of bitcoin's lightning network.

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Bitcoin.org Domain Registered

On August 18, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto first purchased the domain name bitcoin.org.

Satoshi used anonymousspeech.com to register the domain, and it remains unclear how he paid anonymously for the domain.

The current WHOIS information for bitcoin.org.

Leaving Bitcoin

When Satoshi stopped working on Bitcoin in 2011, he transferred control of bitcoin.org to a new group of owners, according to Bitcoin.org’s website:

When Satoshi left the project, he gave ownership of the domain to additional people, separate from the Bitcoin developers, to spread responsibility and prevent any one person or group from easily gaining control over the Bitcoin project.