05-May

5/1 2012 - Race horse named after Satoshi
    2012 - Bitcoin Magazine publishes its first printed issue.
    2013 - Online gaming company ESEA is called out for secretly using customer computers to mine Bitcoins.
    2013 - Coindesk, a bitcoin-focused resource and news website is launched by Shakil Khan, an angel investor and advisor to Spotify. 
    2014 - Dark Wallet Alpha released - an experimental, privacy-focused bitcoin client developed by Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson et. al.
QR  2020 - Parker Lewis - Bitcoin is Common Sense https://archive.is/yUvyP
QR  2019 - Gigi - Bitcoin's Gravity https://archive.is/H9QlN
QR  2020 - Yuri de Gaia - Anarchy and Monarchy: A Natural State https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m6#anarchy-and-monarchy-a-natural-state
5/2 2013 - Bitcoin ATM Day The very first Bitcoin ATM went live on this day in San Diego, California 
    2019 - Bitcoin Core release 0.18.0.
    2013 - Coinlab files a lawsuit against MtGox, alleging multiple counts of breach of contract that resulted in US$75 million in damages.
QR  2018 - Aaron van Wirdum - The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m5#the-future-of-bitcoin-what-lightning-could-look-like
QR  2019 - Rayne Steinberg - Bitcoin - The Unseizable Asset https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#bitcoin---the-unseizable-asset
5/3 2017 - Tonal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per TBC for the first time
QR  2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 7 – Bitcoin Classic https://archive.is/D0BGS
5/4	
5/5
QR  2021 - Nic Carter How much Energy does Bitcoin Actually Consume https://archive.is/Arg0V	
5/6	
QR  2020 - nopara - Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#few-words-on-decentralization-and-anonymous-payments
5/7	
QR  2019 - Pierre Rochard - Why learn to program with Bitcoin's Lightning network? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#why-learn-to-program-with-bitcoins-lightning-network
QR  2019 - Jimmy Song - Why Blockchain is Not the Answer https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#why-blockchain-is-not-the-answer
QR  2020 - John Vallis - The 4th Bitcoin Epoch https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#tweetstorm-the-4th-bitcoin-epoch
5/8 2012 - A single service, Satoshi Dice, becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
QR  2019 - Conner Brown - Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great https://archive.is/ORygI
QR  2019 - Tamás Blummer - How to bribe miners to re-org? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#how-to-bribe-miners-to-re-org
QR  2020 - Fabian Jahr - Where are the coins? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#where-are-the-coins
5/9 2011 - First physical bitcoins called bitbills - A Bitbill is a plastic card that holds the cryptographic key that will allow the face value amount of the card to be spent.
    2012 - An FBI report entitled ""Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity"" is leaked. The report was published on April 24, 2012 in order to bring attention to concerns that Bitcoin payment methods could facilitate illegal transactions for weapons and narcotics.
    2015 - Samourai Wallet inception with Reddit post that announces enforcement of BIP 39 passphrase when a wallet is created. It claims to be forged to keep transactions private, user identity masked, and funds secure."
QR  2019 - Eric Olszewski - No, You Can't Just 'Rollback Bitcoin' https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#no-you-cant-just-rollback-bitcoin
QR  2019 - Nic Carter - A modest proposal regarding Bitcoin mining https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#a-modest-proposal-regarding-bitcoin-mining
5/10	
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 8 – Hong Kong Roundtable https://archive.is/IMHSm
5/11 2012 - Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoinica, is taken down following after hack results in a loss of over 18,000 Bitcoins, valued at approximately US$90,000.
     2020 - Third halving cuts block subsidy from 12.5 to 6.25. Final block of third epoch is mined by f2pool and contains the message: ""NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue"" "
QR   2019 - Sourabh - Differentiating Against Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#differentiating-against-bitcoin
QR   2019 - Peter Wuille, Greg Maxwell and Fernando Nieto - 51% Attack - apparently very easy? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#51-attack---apparently-very-easy-refering-to-czs-rollback-btc-chain
QR   2020 - Pedro Febrero - How Does Quantitative Easing (QR) Affect the Price of Bitcoin? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#how-does-quantitative-easing-qe-affect-the-price-of-bitcoin
5/12 2011 - First room for rent for Bitcoin
QR   2020 - Allen Farrington - Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#spiritual-reflections-on-the-bitcoin-halving
QR   2021 - Alex Gladstein - Check your financial privilege https://archive.is/ikMmx
5/13	
QR   2020 - Matt Huang - Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m6#bitcoin-for-the-open-minded-skeptic
5/14
QR   2018 - Jimmy Song - Why Blockchain is Hard https://archive.is/rAp62
QR   2019 - Roy Sheinfeld - Lightning at the End of the Tunnel https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#lightning-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel
QR   2019 - Deniz Özgür - Cryptocurrencies & Their Effects on Monetary Policy https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#cryptocurrencies--their-effects-on-monetary-policy
OR   2021 - Lyn Alden Analyzing Bitcoin's Network Effect https://archive.is/vNj4h
QR   2021 - Aaron Segal - Bitcoin Information Theory: B.I.T. https://archive.is/jyhrp
5/15 2017 - First Release of Joinmarket by Adam Gibson, a CoinJoin implementation aimed at improving the privacy and fungibility of bitcoin transactions.
QR   2019 - Dan Held - Bitcoin's Security Is Fine https://archive.is/cyfHR
QR   2019 - Stephan Livera - Intro to Bitcoin Austrian Thought https://archive.is/lDZae
QR   2020 - Yassine Elmandjra & Dhruv Bansal - Bitcoin's Resilience to Exponential Change https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#bitcoins-resilience-to-exponential-change
QR   2020 - Sylvain Saurel - What Does Bitcoin Really Represent? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#what-does-bitcoin-really-represent
5/16 2010 - "Bitcoin addresses you generate are kept forever. A bitcoin address must be kept to show ownership of anything sent to it.  If you were able to delete a bitcoin address and someone sent to it, the money would be lost.  They're only about 500 bytes.""
     2010 - "When you generate a new bitcoin address, it only takes disk space on your own computer (like 500 bytes).  It's like generating a new PGP private key, but less CPU intensive because it's ECC.  The address space is effectively unlimited.  It doesn't hurt anyone, so generate all you want."""
5/17 2011 - First stripper being tipped bitcoin
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 9 – Faketoshi https://archive.is/c1Cc3
5/18 2010 - "Simplified Payment Verification is for lightweight client-only users who only do transactions and don't generate and don't participate in the node network.  They wouldn't need to download blocks, just the hash chain, which is currently about 2MB and very quick to verify (less than a second to verify the whole chain).  If the network becomes very large, like over 100,000 nodes, this is what we'll use to allow common users to do transactions without being full blown nodes.  At that stage, most users should start running client-only software and only the specialist server farms keep running full network nodes, kind of like how the usenet network has consolidated. \nSPV is not implemented yet, and won't be implemented until far in the future, but all the current implementation is designed around supporting it.""
     2011 - Patrick Strateman (phantomcircuit) makes first commits to Libbitcoin, a set of cross platform, open source C++ libraries for building bitcoin applications. The toolkit consists of libraries, examples, tests and applications. The project was established on three principles[1]: Privacy: Bitcoin should always remain as private as possible for its users. Scalability: Bitcoin built today with the future in mind. Integrity: No individual or group should have enough power over the network to compromise its original aims.
     2012 - First Bitcoin class in a public school. It was a 4th grade class in Las Vegas
     2015 - Evolution darknet marketplace goes down, citing technical difficulties. The shut down was soon discovered to be an exit scam, with the operators of the site shutting down abruptly in order to steal the approximately $12 million in bitcoins it was holding as escrow"
QR   2019 - Merwande Draï - Bitcoin is the worst enemy of communism and dictatorship https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#bitcoin-is-the-worst-enemy-of-communism-and-dictatorship
5/19 2011 - Amir Taaki submits first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP0001 which describes what a BIP is
QE   2019 - Prateek Goorha - Five Fundamental Effects in Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#five-fundamental-effects-in-bitcoin
QR   2020   Nic Carter - The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption https://archive.is/VquJD
5/20	
QR   2018 - Spencer Bogart - The Internet's Magna Carta Moment: Bitcoin & The Value of Strong Assurances https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m5#the-internets-magna-carta-moment-bitcoin--the-value-of-strong-assurances
5/21	
QR   2018 - Dmitry Kalichkin - Rethinking Metcalfe's Law applications to cryptoasset valuation https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m5#rethinking-metcalfes-law-applications-to-cryptoasset-valuation
QR   2019 - Permabull Nino - Bitcoin: an Accounting Revolution https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#bitcoin-an-accounting-revolution
QR   2020 - Erik Cason - Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#bitcoin-and-the-conquest-of-privacy
5/22 2010 - Pizza Day - The first, real-world transaction using Bitcoins takes place when a Jacksonville, Florida programmer, Laszlo Hanyecz, offers to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for a pizza on the Bitcoin Forum. At the time, the exchange rate put the purchase price for the pizza at around US$25.
QR   2019 - Crypto Voices - 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#crypto-voices-2019-q1-global-monetary-base
QR   2020 - BTChap - Bitcoin's Value Proposition  Is It Truly the Best Currency? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#bitcoins-value-proposition--is-it-truly-the-best-currency
5/23 2010 - "The price of .com registrations is lower than it should be, therefore any good name you might think of is always already taken by some domain name speculator.  Fortunately, it's standard for open source projects to be .org.""
     2017 - NY Disagreement Day - The "New York Agreement" was reached on this day in 2017 that began the fork wars in earnest with the initiation of the SegWit2X proposal.
QR   2019 - Alex Gladstein - Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#bitcoin-could-change-the-game-for-foreign-aid
QR   2019 - Douglas French - The World Is Growing Tired of Government-Controlled Fiat Currencies https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#the-world-is-growing-tired-of-government-controlled-fiat-currencies
5/24 2003 - Whirlpool Hashing Function published by Paulo S.L.M. Barreto and Vincent Rijmen which describes Whirlpool, a one-way, collision resistant 512-bithashing function operating on messages less than 2^256 bits in length.
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 10 – The DAO https://archive.is/fAbyW
5/25	
QR   2019 - Bitcoin 101 with Tuur Demeester https://archive.is/xmLjI
QR   2020 - Hasu - Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m5#why-bitcoin-might-not-survive-a-bitcoin-standard
5/26 2010 - Does anyone want to translate the Bitcoin client itself?  It would be great to have at least one other language in the 0.3 release."
5/27 2011 - User TTbit offers 10,000 BTC to buy a cessna single-engine aircraft
QR   2011 - Gwern - Bitcoin is Worse is Better https://archive.is/TKTkQ
QR   2018 - JW Weatherman - Bitcoin Threat Model https://archive.is/xzIXb
QR   2020 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite: Exchanges Are Now The Enemy of Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m6#57-varieties-of-pyrite-exchanges-are-now-the-enemy-of-bitcoin
5/28
QR   2004 - Nick Szabo - Unforgeable Costliness https://archive.li/kYpjA
QR   2019 - Tony Sheng - Satoshi's vision for bitcoin as told by its predecessors https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#satoshis-vision-for-bitcoin-as-told-by-its-predecessors
QR   2019 - Taylor Pearson - How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#how-fiat-could-fall-and-bitcoin-could-soar
5/29
QR   2018 - Dhruv Bansal - The Geology of Lost Coins https://bitcoinwords.github.io/bitcoin-data-science-the-geology-of-lost-coins-part-2#bitcoin-data-science-pt-2-the-geology-of-lost-coins
QR   2019 - Richard Myers - Decentralizing Bitcoin's Last Mile with Mobile Mesh Networks https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m5#decentralizing-bitcoins-last-mile-with-mobile-mesh-networks
5/30
QR   2018 - Murad Mahmudov and Adam Taché - Bitcoin: Past and Future https://archive.is/jEdSw
5/31	
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 11 – Scaling III – Milan https://archive.is/nMZQR