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February 2016
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| 8 | 9$1, 2011 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
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| 22 | 23libsecp256k1 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28Mt. Gox fails, 2014 |
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Events in February 2016
Tuesday 9 February3919 days ago
Bitcoin reaches $1, 2011
5 years ago. One bitcoin traded for $1.00 on Mt. Gox for the first time, reaching parity with the US dollar.
MarketsSourceBitcoin Wiki, 2011 timeline (9 Feb: "1 bitcoin trades for 1 US dollar on Mt. Gox")
Tuesday 23 February3905 days ago
Bitcoin Core 0.12 checks signatures with libsecp256k1
Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 began checking transaction signatures with libsecp256k1 instead of OpenSSL, through a change by Pieter Wuille. The release notes said signature checks became over five times faster on x86_64 processors, and new blocks took less than half as long to validate.
NetworkSourceBitcoin Core 0.12.0 release notes (published February 23, 2016; change #6954 by Pieter Wuille)
Sunday 28 February3900 days ago
Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, 2014
2 years ago. Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo, saying it had lost about 850,000 bitcoins, 750,000 of them belonging to customers.
MarketsSourceReuters via Business Standard, Mt. Gox in bankruptcy, says may have lost all its bitcoins to hackers (28 Feb 2014)What happened