May 1, 2023
Ripple acquires crypto custody startup Metaco for $250 million.
March 2022
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) inm the United Kingdom declared that all cryptocurrency ATMs in the country were illegal.
September 24, 2021
China put a complete ban on cryptocurrency trading and mining.
April 30, 2021
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey issued a regulation banning the use of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and other such digital assets based on distributed ledger technology, directly or indirectly, to pay for goods and services, citing possible “irreparable” damage and transaction risks.
April 14, 2021
Coinbase became a public company on the Nasdaq exchange via a direct stock listing.
November 1, 2020
The Securities and Commodities Authority published “The Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors’ Decision No. (23/Chairman) of 2020 Concerning Crypto Assets Activities Regulation
September 23, 2020
Avalanche – a decentralized, open-source proof of stake blockchain with smart contract functionality – was released. Avalanche (AVAX) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform.
April 11, 2018
Canada Banks Ban Users From Buying Cryptocurrency.
February 13, 2018
Dubai gold trader Regal RA DMCC became the first company in the Middle East to get a license to trade cryptocurrencies.
September 27, 2017
Cardano (ADA) – a public blockchain platform – initial release.
July 2017
Changpeng Zhao founded Binance (cryptocurrency exchange).
April 2017
Cryptocurrency exchange businesses operating in Japan to be regulated by the Payment Services Act. Cryptocurrency exchange businesses have to be registered, keep records, take security measures, and take measures to protect customers. The law on cryptocurrency transactions must comply with the anti-money laundering law; and measures to protect users investors. The Payment Services Act defines “cryptocurrency” as a property value. The Act also states that cryptocurrency is limited to property values that are stored electronically on electronic devices, not a legal tender.
October 22, 2015
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that “The exchange of traditional currencies for units of the ‘bitcoin’ virtual currency is exempt from VAT” and that “Member States must exempt, inter alia, transactions relating to ‘currency, bank notes and coins used as legal tender'”, making bitcoin a currency as opposed to being a commodity.
September 2015
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), classified bitcoin as a commodity in September 2015.
July 30, 2015
Etherum initial release.
October 25, 2014
Gemini Trust company (an American cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bank) was established.
July 11, 2014
The French Ministry of Finance issued regulations pertaining to the operation of virtual currency professionals, exchanges, and taxation.
January 19, 2014
A fundraiser was established by the Dogecoin community to raise $50,000 for the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which had qualified for, but could not afford to go to, the Sochi Winter Olympics. By the second day, $36,000 worth of Dogecoin was donated and the Dogecoin to Bitcoin exchange rate rose by 50%.
November 19, 2013
The U.S. Treasury classified bitcoin as a convertible decentralized virtual currency.
August 19, 2013
The German Finance Ministry announced that bitcoin is a “unit of account” and can be used for the purpose of tax and trading in the country, meaning that purchases made with it must pay VAT as with euro transactions.
April 2013
Lin Han founded GATE.io (cryptoccurrency exchange).
2013
Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin
2013
Coinmarketcap was founded in 2013 in New York City by Brandon Chez.
June 2012
Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam founded Coinbase (cryptoccurrency exchange).
May 2012
Bitcoin Magazine was co-founded by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Founder).
August 2011
Ben Reeves established blockchain.com (a cryptocurrency financial services company).
July 28, 2011
Jesse Powell founded Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange).
June 13, 2011
The first bitcoin theft occured. User allinvain reported 25 thousand coins (375 thousands USD) were stolen.
January 9, 2009
Bitcoin initial release.
November 9, 2008
The Bitcoin project was registered at the open-source-projects community resource, SourceForge.net.
October 31, 2008
A link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list.
August 18, 2008
The domain name bitcoin.org was registered.
January 1991
Cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta in an article titled “How to time-stamp a digital document” published in the Journal of Cryptology.
1989
In his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, David Chaum described a vault system designed for establishing, maintaining, and trusting computer systems among mutually suspicious groups. This system included many elements that later became part of blockchain technology. Chaum is also credited with inventing digital cash, and in 1989, he founded the company DigiCash.
April 29, 1980
Ralph Merkle (computer scientist and mathematician) had his Merkle Tree (or Hash Tree) concept patended. The invention comprises a method of providing a digital signature for purposes of authentication of a message, which utilizes an authentication tree function of a one-way function of a secret number. The Patent is known as (US patent 4309569).
January 7-8, 1976
The Jamaica Accords ratified the end of the Bretton Woods monetary system; alloweing the price of gold to float with respect to the US dollar and other currencies.
August 15, 1971
The United States “temporarily” suspended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency.