Hardware
HardwareLegendary
ASIC Mining Era Begins
Purpose-built ASIC miners replace GPUs and FPGAs.
Application-Specific Integrated Circuits designed solely for SHA-256 mining arrived in 2013, beginning with Avalon and soon dominated by Bitmain's Antminer line. ASICs made all previous mining hardware obsolete.
Tags
#asic#mining#hardware
What else happened around this time?
HardwareMajor
FPGA Mining Era
FPGAs bridge the gap between GPUs and ASICs.
#fpga#mining
SecurityMajor
Pirateat40 Ponzi Collapses
First major Bitcoin Ponzi scheme defrauds investors of ~7,000 BTC.
BTC $11#ponzi#fraud
AdoptionNotable
First Bitcoin Foundation Board Election
The Bitcoin Foundation held its first member board election.
#foundation#governance
HalvingsEpoch
First Halving
Block reward drops from 50 BTC to 25 BTC at block 210,000.
BTC $12#halving-1#scarcity