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Hashcash: proof of work before Bitcoin
A computational postage stamp for internet abuse became one ingredient in a different system: public transaction ordering.
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Storia delle criptovalute
Dalle idee prima di Bitcoin alle reti programmabili, ai cicli e ai fallimenti. Leggi per epoca o anno.
Segui i meccanismi oltre alle date. Questi percorsi collegano le tappe tecniche a istituzioni, incentivi e fallimenti. La cronologia distingue ogni evento e le sue fonti.
Cronologia completa · 123 ↗1991–2008
Prima di Bitcoin
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b-money: shared balances before the blockchain
Wei Dai’s 1998 proposal explored pseudonymous accounts, distributed bookkeeping and contract enforcement before Bitcoin.
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RPOW: reusable tokens and the hardware trust boundary
Hal Finney’s 2004 experiment made proof-of-work tokens reusable through an attested server, with a different trust model from Bitcoin.
2009–2014
Bitcoin e prime infrastrutture
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Bitcoin’s genesis block: what the record establishes
The first block provides an inspectable starting point. Its timestamp, embedded text and special reward behaviour answer different questions.
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2008–2009: Bitcoin and the problem of double spending
The original design addressed payment history without a central operator, not every form of financial deception.
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Mt. Gox: the long tail of a custody failure
From the 2014 exchange collapse to civil rehabilitation and repayments: custody, creditor claims and the dates behind the headlines.
2015–2017
Reti programmabili e vendite di token
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2015: Ethereum makes shared computation a public service
Frontier expanded the blockchain model from a payment history into a platform for programmes and persistent state.
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The DAO: code, governance and the 2016 split
The application incident and the community's response became separate parts of Ethereum history.
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The ICO era: selling access to a future product
Fundraising, token rights and paid distribution became tightly connected.
2018–2021
DeFi, NFT ed espansione dei mercati
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2018: Uniswap makes pooled liquidity a trading venue
Automated market makers changed who could create a market and where execution costs appeared.
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2020: liquidity mining turns usage into a token reward
Compound's distribution helped popularise an incentive model that made activity and sustainable demand harder to separate.
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2021: the NFT boom connects provenance, art and speculation
Beeple's auction showed the reach of tokenised ownership, while the token standard left many rights outside the contract.
2022–2026
Crisi, aggiornamenti e nuove vie di accesso
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Terra and UST: the peg, the collapse and the fraud cases
The redemption mechanism explains the feedback loop; the court records explain the misleading claims surrounding it.
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FTX and Alameda: customer money, privileged accounts and the bankruptcy
How the exchange funded its affiliated trading firm, why the risk engine did not protect customers and what later recovery percentages actually measured.
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2022: Ethereum replaces mining with proof of stake
The Merge changed block production while preserving application state and the existing ETH asset.
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2024: Dencun gives rollups a separate data market
Blob transactions reduced one component of rollup costs without turning every layer 2 into the same security model.
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2024: US spot Bitcoin ETPs change the access route
Exchange-traded exposure brought a familiar securities wrapper around an asset still held through a custody chain.