Cryptocurrency is a form of digital money secured by cryptography and recorded on a decentralised blockchain ledger, operating without any central bank or gove…
On 31 October 2008, a person or group operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page paper titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'…
On 3 January 2009, Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block — known as the genesis block or Block 0 — generating the first 50 BTC ever to exist. The network went live with…
On 22 May 2010, Florida-based programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoin — then worth approximately $41 — for two Papa John's pizzas, arranged through a forum post on…
On 29 November 2013, Bitcoin crossed the $1,000 mark on the Mt. Gox exchange — a price milestone that generated the first wave of mainstream global media coverage. In In…
On 30 July 2015, the Ethereum network went live, introducing the concept of programmable money through 'smart contracts' — self-executing code stored on a blockchain tha…
Bitcoin peaked at approximately $19,783 on 17 December 2017, culminating a year in which the price rose by over 1,300%. The bull run was fuelled by a flood of initial co…
On 6 April 2018, the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular directing all regulated banks and payment system operators to stop providing services to businesses dealing…
On 4 March 2020, a three-judge Supreme Court bench led by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman struck down the RBI's April 2018 circular as unconstitutional, ruling that the ce…
On 10 November 2021, Bitcoin reached a record high of approximately $69,044 — more than triple its 2017 peak — driven by unprecedented institutional adoption. US asset m…
In her Union Budget speech on 1 February 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a flat 30% tax on income from the transfer of any virtual digital asset (VDA…
On 11 November 2022, FTX — the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, valued at $32 billion just months earlier — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a liquid…
On 10 January 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved 11 spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds — including products from BlackRock, Fidelity, and Invesco —…
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