BITCOIN.ORG (GC-0003)
Room I · Idea · 18 August 2008 · RARE · TECHNOLOGICAL
The domain operator's history post states the 18 August 2008 registration.
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BITCOIN WHITEPAPER (GC-0002)
Room I · Idea · 31 October 2008 · LEGENDARY · TECHNOLOGICAL
The original announcement carries the PDF link and the full title; the file served today is nine pages.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT (GC-0004)
Room I · Idea · 31 October 2008 · RARE · CULTURAL
The original list archive preserves the subject and announcement text dated 31 October 2008.
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GENESIS BLOCK (GC-0001)
Room II · Beginning · 3 January 2009 · LEGENDARY · TECHNOLOGICAL
The Block 0 hash/time and the coinbase Times line match the client record.
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THE TIMES (GC-0008)
Room II · Beginning · 3 January 2009 · COMMON · CULTURAL
The full coinbase line is visible in the source code. The original Times publication URL was found via the catalog, but the publisher's page body gives HTTP 403.
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VERSION 0.1 (GC-0005)
Room II · Beginning · 8 January 2009 · RARE · TECHNOLOGICAL
The original email is dated 8 January 2009 14:27:40 EST and explicitly provides a bitcoin-0.1.0.rar link that includes Windows and C++ source.
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BLOCK ONE (GC-0009)
Room II · Beginning · 9 January 2009 · COMMON · TECHNOLOGICAL
Block 1 links to Genesis as its previous hash; its timestamp is 9 January.
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RUNNING BITCOIN (GC-0006)
Room II · Beginning · 11 January 2009 · RARE · TECHNOLOGICAL
The original X record gives 2009-01-11T03:33:52Z and the exact two words.
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FIRST TRANSACTION (GC-0007)
Room II · Beginning · 12 January 2009 · LEGENDARY · TECHNOLOGICAL
The Block 170 transaction carries 10 BTC and 40 BTC outputs; in his own account, Hal says Satoshi sent ten coins as a test.
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NEW LIBERTY (GC-0010)
Room III · Value · 5 October 2009 · COMMON · ECONOMIC
The archived table gives $1 = 1309.03 BTC for 10/05/2009; the text gives the electricity-cost method.
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FIRST SALE (GC-0011)
Room III · Value · 12 October 2009 · RARE · ECONOMIC
In a 2014 X post (first-person retrospective account), Malmi writes that on 12 October 2009 he sold 5050 BTC for $5.02; the chain transaction he links is 5050 BTC.
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BITCOINTALK (GC-0012)
Room III · Value · 22 November 2009 · COMMON · CULTURAL
Satoshi's “Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!” message links to the old SourceForge forum.
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DIFFICULTY INCREASE (GC-0013)
Room III · Value · 30 December 2009 · RARE · TECHNOLOGICAL
32255: difficulty 1; 32256: difficulty 1.1828995343128408 and different nBits. The earlier 2016-block boundaries were also checked separately.
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BITCOIN MARKET (GC-0014)
Room III · Value · 16 March 2010 · COMMON · ECONOMIC
In #35 on 16 March, dwdollar writes about real trading/deposits and his own offer of 500 BTC @ $0.0067; #42 on 17 March reports the first real trade.
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BITCOIN PIZZA (GC-0015)
Room IV · Spread · 22 May 2010 · LEGENDARY · CULTURAL
The 18 May offer is for two large pizzas; on 22 May, #11 reports the completed 10,000 BTC exchange and thanks jercos.
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THE FAUCET (GC-0016)
Room IV · Spread · 11 June 2010 · COMMON · CULTURAL
The announcement explicitly states 5 BTC per customer, an initial pool of 1,100 BTC, and the trial/adoption purpose.
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SLASHDOT (GC-0017)
Room IV · Spread · 11 July 2010 · COMMON · CULTURAL
Slashdot's 11 July 2010 article and the Teppy submission exist.
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MT. GOX (GC-0018)
Room IV · Spread · 18 July 2010 · COMMON · ECONOMIC
The mtgox account's 18 July message announces the new exchange; a reply describes the ticker fields.
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VALUE OVERFLOW (GC-0019)
Room IV · Spread · 15 August 2010 · RARE · TECHNOLOGICAL
The contemporary forum records the abnormal giant outputs, the overflow bug and the Satoshi/Gavin fixes; 0.3.10 is the response release.
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ONE MILLION (GC-0020)
Room IV · Spread · 6 November 2010 · COMMON · ECONOMIC
The 6 November thread celebrates the million threshold; replies discuss the method of circulation x last/average rate.
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HORNET'S NEST (GC-0021)
Room IV · Spread · 11 December 2010 · RARE · CULTURAL
SNI 542 (Satoshi Nakamoto Institute message number 542) records the warning on 11 December 23:39:16 UTC; SNI 543 (12 December 18:22:33 UTC) is a separate 0.3.19 release message.
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