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January 2016
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3Genesis block, 2009 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8Bitcoin v0.1, 2009 | 9 | 10 |
| 11Running bitcoin, 2009 | 12First transaction, 2009 | 13 | 14The Lightning Network paper | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
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Events in January 2016
Sunday 3 January3956 days ago
The genesis block, 2009
7 years ago. The first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, block 0, was created. Its only transaction contains the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".
MilestonesSee block 0See the paymentSourcemempool.space, block 0 (timestamp 1231006505)What happened
Friday 8 January3951 days ago
Bitcoin v0.1 is released, 2009
7 years ago. Satoshi Nakamoto announced the first release of the Bitcoin software, a Windows-only program with open-source C++ code, on the Cryptography Mailing List.
MilestonesSourceCryptography Mailing List archive, "Bitcoin v0.1 released" (Thu Jan 8 14:27:40 EST 2009)
Monday 11 January3948 days ago
Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin", 2009
7 years ago. Cryptographer Hal Finney posted "Running bitcoin" on Twitter, two days after block 1, the first block after the genesis block, was mined.
MilestonesSourceTwitter's oEmbed data for the tweet (dated January 11, 2009)
Tuesday 12 January3947 days ago
The first bitcoin transaction, 2009
7 years ago. Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 bitcoin to Hal Finney in block 170, the first transaction that moved coins from one person to another.
MilestonesSee block 170See the paymentSourceHal Finney, "Bitcoin and me", bitcointalk, 19 March 2013 (archived copy)
Thursday 14 January3945 days ago
The Lightning Network paper
Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja's paper "The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments" proposed a network of payment channels, which let two people pay each other many times while settling on the blockchain only occasionally.
MilestonesSourceThe Lightning Network paper, draft version 0.5.9.2, dated January 14, 2016