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Where do I get Bitcoin?

Exchanges (ID required)
https://bitcoin.org/en/..

No KYC(Know your customer) marketplaces
https://kycnot.me/

Mine Bitcoin (nonKYC)
Start mining

Bitcoin ATM's
https://coinatmradar.com/

ATM's may require a phone. Use these tools for more privacy:
Tools

By Friends (Don't have any? Go on a Bitcoin Meetup)
Bitcoin Meetups

Own old Bitcoin? Find & convert forks
https://bfr.sate.tools/

Earn "free" Bitcoins

Disclaimer: Nothing is "free". Either you watch adds, do tasks or your data is the product. Be cautious.

Overview (Stacksats-how)
https://www.stacksats.how/

Learn Bitcoin (Carrot)
https://www.earncarrot.com/

Play games (Thndr)(I recommend the bounce game)
https://www.thndr.games/bitcoin-games

Play games (Zebedee)
https://zebedee.io/play

Apollo
https://heyapollo.com/

Socialmedia tasks (sats4likes)
https://www.sats4likes.com/

Soldirac (Rewarded Q&A)
https://soldirac.com/

Jamapp (Liquidity)
https://jamapp.org/

Vida (Monetize videocalls)
https://vida.live/

Other earning posibillities
Stuff build on lightning

Test these free Bitcoin faucets

Lightningnetworkstores
https://lightningnetworkstores.com/faucet

Boltcoiner
https://boltcoiner.io/

Bitcoli
https://bitcoli.com/en/satoshi/

Related topics:
Content creators | Other Bitcoin websites

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History

Calendar

All dates:
https://bitcoin.holiday/

Small selection:
3rd January:
Genesis Block and Proof of Keys Day
https://www.proofofkeys.com/

22th May:
Bitcoin Pizzaday

7th September:
Bitcoin Day: First Country makes Bitcoin legal tender

21th August:
Bitcoin Infinity Day

28th August:
Hal Finney died

31th October:
Bitcoin got published in the Cyberpunks mailinglist

Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto institute
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

P2P foundation
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/..

Savage speculations about his Identity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto..

Satoshi wasn't perfect
https://twitter.com/thomas_fahrer/status/..

Hal Finney

His Twitter account
https://twitter.com/halfin

All his posts in the Bitcoin Forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436;sa=showPosts

Web archive of Hal Finney
https://web.archive.org/web/..

His wifes Twitter
https://twitter.com/franfinney

Other early influential individiums

*Please notice that non of the listed persons have any control over Bitcoin. They just contributed to it.

Adam Back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back

Dr. Craig S. Wright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright

David Chaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

Sirius aka. Martti Malmi
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Sirius

Pieter Wuille
https://www.weusecoins.com/pieter-wuille/

Nick Szabo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

Gavin Andresen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen

Former communication platforms

Bitcoin Forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php

P2P Foundation Forum
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum

Cyberpunks mailinglist
https://www.metzdowd.com/mail..

Bitcoin.org

Satoshi created bitcoin.org (August 18, 2008)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin.org

Craig Wright suing bitcoin.org (April 2021)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/craig-wright-wins-default-judgment-bitcoin-org-must-remove-bitcoin-whitepaper

Bitcoin.org got hacked (September 23,2021)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/09/23/bitcoinorg-appears-hacked-by-giveaway-scam/

Timeline

Detailed Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin

Bitcoin's publication (2008)

Cyberpunks mailinglist (October 31, 2008)
https://www.metzdowd.com/piper..

P2P Foundation Forum (February 11, 2009)
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/..

Mt. Gox (2009 - 2013)

Overview Darknetdiaries episode
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/9/

Wikipedia as Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

Webarchiv of Mt.Gox
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701..

Mt. Gox researcher
https://blog.wizsec.jp/

Lesson: Not Your Keys not your Coins.

2010

Laszlo ordering the Pizza
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day
https://happybitcoinpizzaday.com/

Logo by bitboy
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0%3Ball

First time mentioning shitcoins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1647.msg20646#msg20646

2011

WikiLeaks asks for anonymous Bitcoin donations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/..

https://wikileaks.org/donate

Silk Road succesfull launch
https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3984.0

First Shitcoin launch: Litecoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0

First Bitcoin conference NYC
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-worlds-first-bitcoin-conference

2012

Invention of stratum
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Stratum..

End of Silk Road
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-silk-road-report

2013

BIP-050: Fixing doublespend
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki

2014

Ghash.io obtaining 51% hashrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHash.io

Concerns back then
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions..

Why Bitcoiners left Ghash
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-mining-pool-ghash-io-is-unapologetic-risk-theoretical-51-attack/

BitcoinXT launch & fork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks

2015

Unicode Consortium proposal published
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15229-bitcoin-sign.pdf

2016

Hashrate reached 1 Exahash
https://mempool.space/de/graphs/mining/hashrate-difficulty#all

Research shows Bitcoin moved away from sins
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2808762

Blocksize war (2013 - 2017)

Overview of the debate
https://medium.com/scalar-capital/understanding-the-block-size-debate-351bdbaaa38

NewYork agreement
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/New_York_Agree..

The agreement
https://dcgco.medium.com/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-133521fe9a77

User activated softfork
https://bitflyer.com/en-eu/s/glossary/uasf

UASF & BIP 148 explained
https://www.weusecoins.com/uasf-guide/

The creation of BTC-Cash
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/birth-bch-first-crazy-days-bitcoin-cash

Further recent History

Related topics:
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Introduction

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Bitcoin fixes this

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