Catalog

An annotated archive of bitcoin's cultural artifacts.

The memes, phrases, events, and iconography that built bitcoin culture. Researched, sourced, dated, annotated.

1990

Jan 1 DigiCash Document ★

1991

Jun 5 PGP Document ★

1992

Sep 1 The Cypherpunk Mailing List Document Nov 22 The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto Document ★

1993

Mar 9 A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Document ★

1997

Jan 1 The Sovereign Individual Document Mar 28 Hashcash Document

1998

Nov 1 b-money Document

2005

Dec 29 Bit Gold Document

2008

Oct 31 The Whitepaper Document ★

2009

Jan 3 The Genesis Block Event ★ Jan 11 Running Bitcoin Document

2010

May 22 The Pizza Event ★ Nov 1 Bitcoin Orange Iconography ★ Dec 15 Bitcoin Obituaries Iconography

2011

Feb 6 Silk Road Event Apr 23 Satoshis Disappearance Event ★ Jun 14 WikiLeaks Accepts Bitcoin Event Jun 19 The First Mt. Gox Hack Event Sep 1 Casascius Coins Iconography Dec 1 Vires in Numeris Iconography

2012

Mar 30 This Is Good For Bitcoin Phrase May 1 Bitcoin Magazine Document

2013

Feb 18 Magic Internet Money Iconography Mar 16 Cyprus Event Aug 31 The Citadel Phrase Sep 10 The Seed Phrase Iconography Dec 18 HODL Phrase ★

2014

Jan 1 The Honey Badger of Money Iconography Feb 24 The Mt. Gox Collapse Event ★ Mar 7 I Am Not Dorian Nakamoto Document Mar 29 Hyperbitcoinization Phrase May 22 Bitcoin Pizza Day Event Jul 29 Trezor Event Aug 28 Hal Finney Event Dec 1 Don't Trust, Verify Phrase Dec 1 The Antonopoulos Books Document

2015

Jun 24 The BitLicense Event

2016

Jan 1 Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins Phrase Jan 14 The Lightning Network Whitepaper Document ★ Jan 14 Bitcoin Has Failed Document Jul 9 The Halving as Holiday Event Aug 2 The Bitfinex Hack Event

2017

Jun 20 The ₿ Symbol Iconography ★ Jul 12 The Buy Bitcoin Sign Event Aug 1 The Block Size Wars Event Aug 1 Bitcoin Twitter Iconography Aug 24 SegWit Activation Event Oct 5 Number Go Up Phrase

2018

Jan 1 Tick Tock Next Block Phrase Apr 24 The Bitcoin Standard Document ★ May 5 Rat Poison Squared Phrase

2019

Jan 19 The Lightning Torch Event Feb 23 1 BTC = 1 BTC Phrase Mar 1 The Case for a Small Allocation to Bitcoin Document Mar 22 Stock-to-Flow Iconography Apr 1 Bitcoin Beach Event Jun 15 Stay Humble, Stack Sats Phrase Dec 24 Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole Phrase

2020

Jan 1 Mempool.space Iconography Mar 9 Money Printer Go Brrr Iconography Jun 1 The Cantillon Effect Phrase Jul 16 Bitcoin Fixes This Phrase Aug 11 MicroStrategy's First Buy Event Aug 11 The Treasury Strategy Event Sep 13 Have Fun Staying Poor Phrase Oct 8 Square's First Buy Event

2021

Jan 26 It's Going Up Forever, Laura Phrase Feb 8 Tesla's $1.5 Billion Event Feb 16 Laser Eyes Iconography Apr 14 The Coinbase IPO Event May 21 The China Mining Ban Event Jun 1 Bitcoin Is Hope Phrase Jun 5 El Salvador Legal Tender Event Jun 5 The Bitcoin 2021 Miami Stage Event Jun 25 Fix the Money, Fix the World Phrase Oct 12 Orange-Pilled Phrase Nov 10 The $69,000 Top Event Nov 14 The Taproot Activation Event

2022

Mar 31 SAB 121 Event Apr 10 Infinity Divided by 21 Million Phrase May 9 The Terra/LUNA Collapse Event Nov 11 The FTX Collapse Event

2023

Jan 21 Ordinals Event Feb 18 Softwar Document Mar 23 The Skull of Satoshi Iconography Jun 15 Finks Reversal Event

2024

Jan 10 The Spot ETF Approval Event Apr 24 The Samourai Seizure Event May 13 Nothing Stops This Train Phrase Jul 27 Trump at Bitcoin Nashville Event

2025

Jan 21 Free Ross Event Feb 3 The Big Print Document Mar 6 The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Event