I spend a lot of time reading and learning about cryptos.
Digging back in to the early history is particularly interesting.
This gave me the idea for a little fun and educational project - to compile a This Day In History for the world of crypto.
I am hoping this can be a collaborative effort to help with the research - and I am giving away HIVE to encourage people to get involved.
I'll get the ball rolling with the first event I have found for 13 February. And then I will explain how you can help out and earn HIVE.
Enjoy !
13 February 2012 - TradeHill Exchange (#1) Shuts Down
TradeHill was the first US Bitcoin exchange to compete with Mt Gox.
It was set up by Bitcoin millionaire and former US Marine Jered Kenna out of a 41 bedroom hotel called 20 Mission that he owned in San Francisco.
TradeHill is featured in the documentary 'The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin'...
TradeHill was first launched in early June 2011. In July the exchange reported anomalies with Dwolla payments.
Six months later in February 2012 TradeHill was forced to shut down after losing $100,000 in a dispute over chargebacks with payment processor Dwolla...
Jered Kenna, together with Ryan Singer, relaunched TradeHill in March 2013, after receiving $400,000 in seed funding from angel investors, and within its first month, it did more than $1 million in Bitcoin trades.
However by August of the same year the exchange had further difficulties when it was forced to suspend trading due to “operational and regulatory issues” faced by its bank - the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union (IAFCU).
Help the Project and earn HIVE
Researching This Day in Crypto History is quite a major undertaking.
I have so far found notable events for nearly half the days of the year and I am continually discovering more.
To ensure there are not any 'empty days' it would be great if anyone can contribute more events - particularly for the days I am missing in the next few weeks...
February 16th, 17th, 21st, 26th, 27th
March 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th
I will pay 1 HIVE (until further notice) for events on any of these days that I use in the daily posts.
The events will have to be notable enough, with links to reputable websites for verification. Events can be posted in comments below or sent to me on Discord (Pennsif#9921).
I am continually finding new events so I will attempt to keep the 'empty days' list updated.
For days where I already have some events I will still pay 0.5 HIVE for additional events that I haven't found already. You can either wait for the days to be published or send the events to me and I will let you know if I already have them (you will have to trust me on that !).
It will be great if people find this project series interesting enough to join in.
There doesn't seem to be a crypto specific This Day in History site already in existence so I hope this project will provide some unique and attractive content for LeoFinance and Hive.
Thank you.
Pennsif
