Hardware
HardwareNotable
GPU Mining Era Begins
Miners began outperforming CPUs with graphics cards — the first hardware arms race.
Hardware
By late 2010, miners discovered that AMD Radeon GPUs could hash far faster than CPUs. The shift raised the network difficulty and foreshadowed the industrial mining era that ASICs would later dominate.
Tags
#gpu#mining
What else happened around this time?
PeopleLegendary
Patoshi Mining Pattern Ends
Forensic analysis places Satoshi's last known mined block at height 54,316.
#patoshi#satoshi
AdoptionEpoch
Bitcoin Pizza Day
Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas — the first real-world purchase.
BTC $0.0041#pizza-day#first-purchase
ExchangesMajor
Mt. Gox Launched
Jed McCaleb launches what becomes the dominant Bitcoin exchange.
#mt-gox#exchange
AdoptionMajor
Slashdot Features Bitcoin
Slashdot front page brings thousands of new users.
BTC $0.08#slashdot#media