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The article should mention the evolution of mining technology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.167.237.98 (talk) 13:15, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Could someone please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Bitcoin to the list above? Chris Arnesen 00:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I propose that History of Bitcoin#2013 bitcoin prices be merged into History of Bitcoin#Prices and value history. Any objections? Chris Arnesen 02:00, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
retraction for the paper suggesting a link between Satoshi and DPR: http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/27/technology/bitcoin-silk-road/ 27.33.43.226 (talk) 00:48, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Done
Could somebody add Bitcoin's prehistory as Nick Szabo’s “bit gold” and LikeInAMirror's textual analysis of this claim? --dbabbitt (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
how can that be?
Maximilian (talk) 21:12, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
The article refers to the "shutdown of MtGox" and it seems it affected the price of the Bitcoins. What is the MtGox? Some kind of computer or algorithm? I do not understand why this term is used when there is no explanation for what it is. Not even a red link either. --Ysangkok (talk) 13:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kitconews/2013/12/10/2013-year-of-the-bitcoin/ has a higher value; $1242. ikesham (talk) 23:01, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
That is very vague. Wasn't it published on http://www.metzdowd.com (of Metzger, Dowdeswell & Co) QuentinUK (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Should we add a part about this? http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-core-devs-in-civil-war-insist-were-not-getting-the-whole-story I don't really want to edit it myself not being good with Wikipedia etc. 68.195.47.32 (talk) 04:42, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Per a group of reputable sources, and a consensus among editors (Talk:Bitcoin/Archive_16#moving_the_stuff_on_capital_Band_small_b_bitcoin_in_lede) the main Bitcoin article as well as this article use lowercase bitcoin in article text. Since the title of the article is supposed to be in sentence case, I propose to change the title to: "History of bitcoin". Ladislav Mecir (talk) 06:47, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
The word 'bitcoin' should be capitalized, as it's in a title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.102.80.150 (talk) 18:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
This fork seems like a major development. It's covered in today's NY Times.[1] I don't see anything about it here or in the main Bitcoin article. TimidGuy (talk) 14:30, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
It would be wise to add some sort of live data feed that shows live market data that shows latest Bitcoin price as per CoinDesk as per Wiki template at time of page generation with purge link and timestamp, as that should go to the bottom of the table. The timestamp goes under DATE category with the time to nearest second in UTC, the latest price value in USD : 1 BTC and "Latest price from CoinDesk" and links to additional info, Wikipedia article and/or to the template itself whereas the template contains disclaimer information. Ryan (talk) 01:54, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
I believe that we should add entries to this table only when reputable sources write about price movements. I suggest removing all entries with no references. If there are no objections, say, in a week, I am going to do just that. Retimuko (talk) 22:31, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
This statement has no valid reference: Also Bitcoin investment platform BitConnect – which has long been suspected of running a Ponzi scheme – has officially announced its platform is shutting down.<ref>Shane, Daniel (17 January 2018). "Bitcoin lost a third of its value in 24 hours". CNN. ((cite news))
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–84.46.52.152 (talk) 18:10, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
The article states that Hal Finney was involved in the world's first bitcoin transaction (with Nakamoto) and the reference states that this was January 12, 2009. What about Dave Kleiman, Craig Steven Wright, and "two others" who also traded the same day (ref. see Kleiman)? Was this the same transaction? Ekem (talk) 23:07, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
On January 12, 2009, Craig, Dave, and two others sent each other bitcoin transactions recorded on the blockchain. (Ex. 1 at 31)., but this is just an allegation by the Kleiman estate and has yet to be proven as fact. If a reliable source says it the same transaction then we would follow. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
There from the beginning was Hal Finney, who would receive the first bitcoin transaction, on block 9. This was a key moment for the new cryptocurrency: block 9 for ever shows that Satoshi sent Finney ten bitcoin on 12 January 2009 – it is the first outgoing transaction we know to have come from Satoshi. Satoshi also sent four other transactions on the same day. I asked Wright who the recipients were – who the four addresses belonged to. ‘Hal, Dave, myself,’ he replied. ‘And another I cannot name as I have no right to do so.’’, this would mean that the transactions were separate. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:18, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Wei Dai is an important figure in the development of Bitcoin, and currently the wikipedia page wei dai redirects to bitcoin. Shouldn't we have a separate article for the Wei Dai and his academic contributions?
Also, how much can we bring from this wiki page? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wei_Dai
Xinbenlv (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
In this revision, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/855882397, a change I had made twas reverted, with the statement that the text does not claim unknown vulnerabilities do not exist.
That's not true, though - the phrase "only major security flaw found and exploited in bitcoin's history" explicitly says we know there were no other major flaws.
That's why I made the edit in the first place. I'm inclined to make it again but I'm starting with this comment in hopes of avoiding an edit war. NateEag (talk) 12:01, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
There should be a price graph. Benjamin (talk) 10:07, 22 May 2024 (UTC)