Other Football Leagues History

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Arena Football League

Arena: 1987- (32 seasons)

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Canadian Football League

CFL: 1950- (69 seasons)

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United Football League

UFL: 2009-2012 (4 seasons)

The United Football League (UFL) was a professional American football league that began play...

XFL Football League

XFL: 2001-2001 (1 season)

The XFL was a professional football league that played its only season in 2001. ...

NFL Europe

WLAF: 1991-2007 (17 seasons)

The World League of American Football (WLAF), later renamed the NFL Europe League, began in...

United States Football League

USFL: 1983-1985 (3 seasons)

The United States Football League (USFL) was an American football league that played for three...

World Football League

WFL: 1974-1975 (2 seasons)

The World Football League (WFL) was a short-lived American football league that played was founder...

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2007

Satoshi Nakamoto began working on the Bitcoin concept.

2008

August

Neal Kin, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry file an application for an encryption patent application.
Bitcoin.org was registered at anonymousspeech.com.

October

Nakamoto describes the Bitcoin currency and solves the problem of double spending.

November

The Bitcoin project is registered on SourceForge.net.

2009

January

Block 0 is established.
Version 0.1 of Bitcoin is released.
The first Bitcoin transaction.

October

An exchange rate is established.

December

Version 0.2 is released.
The difficulty increases.

2010

February

The Bitcoin Market is established as a Bitcoin currency exchange.
Encryption patent is published.

May

The first real-world transaction using 10,000 BTC spent on pizza.

July

Version 0.3 released.
In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin.
The MtGox Bitcoin currency exchange market is established.

August

Exploit generates 184 billion Bitcoins.

October

Financial task force issues warning.
The first public version of an OpenCL miner is released.

November

Market cap exceeds $1 million USD.

December

Bitcoind compiled for Nokia N900.
First mobile Bitcoin transaction.
Difficulty increases.

2011

January

Silk Road opens for business.
25% of total Bitcoins generated.

February

Bitcoin reaches parity with US dollar.
WeUseCoins.com is created.

March

Second largest decrease in difficulty.
Britcoin opens for trading.
Bitcoin Brasil opens.

April

Bitcoin passes parity with Euro.
Difficulty surpasses 100,000.

June

Bitcoin Market drops PayPal.
The largest percentage price decrease to-date became known as the Great Bubble of 2011. Top of bubble at $31.
WikiLeaks starts accepting Bitcoin.
Major breach of security at MtGox.
Difficulty passes 1 million.

August

Bitcoin Conference and World Expo in New York City, NY.
P2Pool mines its first block.
Back-to-back drop in difficulty.

September

Casascius coins mint physical Bitcoins.

November

Bitcoin & Future Technology European Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

December

$2 minimum price after the first price drop.

2012

September

London 2012 Bitcoin Conference.
Bitcoin Foundation begins.

December

Slowly rising for a year. Price at $13.

2013

February

Version 0.8 released.
Bitcoin goes up to $30.

March

Bitcoin spikes to $74.90.
Market cap reaches $1 billion.

April

Bitcoin surpasses $100.
Price hits an all-time high of $266.
Bitcoin Central is hacked.

May

First Bitcoin ATM unveiled.
Bitcoin Central gets hacked again.

October

FBI shuts down Silk Road.
Bitcoin price drops from $139 to $109.71 in less than three hours after Silk Road closure, recovers.

November

Bitcoin price surges to a new all-time record of $1242.

December

Price crashed to $600, rebounded to $1000, crashed again to the $500 range. Stabilized in between.
China's Central Bank bans Bitcoin transactions.
The network exceeded 10 petahash/sec.

2014

January

Price spiked to $1000, then settled in the $800–$900range.

March

Version 0.9 released.

June

The network exceeded 100 petahash/sec.

December

Microsoft began to accept bitcoin to buy Xbox games and Windows apps.

2015

February

Version 0.10 released.

July

Version 0.11 released.

November

2015 record high of $504.

2016

January

Price at $1150 per bitcoin.
Price fell 30% in a week, reaching a multi-month low of $750.
The network exceeded 1 exahash/sec.

February

Version 0.12 released.

April

Steam started accepting bitcoin as payment.

August

Version 0.13 released.

September

There are 770 bitcoin ATMs worldwide.

2017

March

Version 0.14 released.
The price of 1 bitcoin surpassed the spot price of an ounce of gold for the first time.
The number of GitHub projects related to bitcoin passed 10,000.
Price traded above $1290.

April

Japan Declares Bitcoin as Legel Tender

August

Bitcoin "splits" into Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

November

Bitcoin for the first time hit $10,000

2018

Today

At the moment, one bitcoin cost:
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