Bitcoin Pizza transaction and the first merchant integrations (2010–2012)

1. New Liberty Standard publishes early BTC price

   Oct 5, 2009Labels: New Liberty

   • Guinness
   • BitcoinHistory

2. BitcoinMarket opens as early trading platform

   Mar 17, 2010Labels: BitcoinMarket

   • Guinness
   • BitcoinWiki

3. Hanyecz posts offer to buy pizza with BTC

   May 17, 2010Labels: Laszlo Hanyecz, BitcoinTalk

   • BitcoinWiki
   • Coinbase Learn

4. Bitcoin Pizza transaction completes (10,000 BTC)

   May 22, 2010Labels: Bitcoin Pizza, Papa John

   • BitcoinWiki
   • Wikipedia

5. Bitcoin v0.3.0 released with major usability upgrades

   Jul 6, 2010Labels: Bitcoin v0

   • BitcoinDevs
   • BitcoinWiki

6. Bitcoin gains attention after Slashdot mention

   Jul 11, 2010Labels: Slashdot

   • BitcoinWiki
   • BitcoinWiki

7. Mt. Gox exchange established

   Jul 17, 2010Labels: Mt Gox

   • BitcoinWiki
   • Wikipedia

8. Bitcoin-Qt 0.6.0 improves syncing and adds features

   Mar 30, 2012Labels: Bitcoin-Qt 0

   • Bitcoin org

9. Bitcoin Foundation announced to support adoption

   Sep 27, 2012Labels: Bitcoin Foundation

   • BitcoinWiki
   • Wikipedia

10. BitPay grows merchant processing for Bitcoin payments

    Oct 1, 2012Labels: BitPay

    • Wikipedia
    • BitPay Blog

11. WordPress.com begins accepting Bitcoin via BitPay

    Nov 16, 2012Labels: WordPress com, BitPay

    • WIRED
    • Ars

12. Merchant integrations become the main adoption path

    Dec 31, 2012Labels: Merchant Integrations

    • Wikipedia
    • WIRED