First Bitcoin Foundation Board Election

The Bitcoin Foundation held its first member board election.

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Founded to fund core development and advocacy, the Foundation's elections were an early attempt at formal governance in a leaderless open-source project — controversial then and since.

What else happened around this time?

January 15, 2012AdoptionNotable

Bitcoin Foundation Founded

Organization formed to promote and protect Bitcoin.

#foundation

August 16, 2012SecurityMajor

Pirateat40 Ponzi Collapses

First major Bitcoin Ponzi scheme defrauds investors of ~7,000 BTC.

BTC $11#ponzi#fraud

November 28, 2012HalvingsEpoch

First Halving

Block reward drops from 50 BTC to 25 BTC at block 210,000.

BTC $12#halving-1#scarcity

January 1, 2013HardwareLegendary

ASIC Mining Era Begins

Purpose-built ASIC miners replace GPUs and FPGAs.

#asic#mining