Taproot proposal, community deliberation, and activation (2017–2021)
2018 - 2021
Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, and law enforcement seizures involving Bitcoin (2011–2014)
2011 - 2014
Scaling debate, SegWit deployment, and the Bitcoin Cash hard fork (2015–2018)
2015 - 2018
Privacy tooling for Bitcoin: CoinJoin, Wasabi, and protocol privacy improvements (2013–2023)
2013 - 2023
Mt. Gox: exchange growth, security failures, and bankruptcy (2010–2014)
2007 - 2014
Lightning Network development, mainnet launch, and early adoption (2015–2020)
2016 - 2020
Institutional purchase strategies and corporate Bitcoin treasuries (2019–2023)
2020 - 2023
El Salvador's Bitcoin law, Chivo wallet rollout, and national experiments (2021–2023)
2021 - 2023
China mining crackdown and the global redistribution of hash rate (2020–2022)
2020 - 2022
Bitcoin's role in the Russia–Ukraine conflict and related sanctions dynamics (2022–2024)
2022 - 2024
Bitcoin whitepaper, genesis block, and early developer network (2008–2010)
2008 - 2010
Bitcoin Pizza transaction and the first merchant integrations (2010–2012)
2009 - 2012