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A paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, signed Satoshi Nakamoto, is posted to a cryptography mailing list. It describes a chain of proof-of-work timestamps that lets strangers transact without a trusted third party.

Alo starts accepting cryptocurrency for online orders and lets employees have all or part of their pay deposited into crypto wallets with no conversion fees.

On 6 October 2025 bitcoin reached a record of about US$126,000, up from a mid-August peak near US$124,500 and lifting its market value to roughly US$2.5 trillion. It has not traded above that level since.

Bitdeer bought about 200 acres of land next to its Rockdale, Texas bitcoin mining facility for about 100 million USD on 1 September 2026; the Milam County sites have 563 MW of interconnected grid capacity with plans to reach 742 MW.

On 20 September 2026 Kalshi’s "when will Bitcoin cross $100k again" ladder gave the whole of 2026 only a 26% chance, and the single likeliest month was November: the book jumped from 10% by November 1 to 23% by December 1. With BTC near $80,800 that was a 24% move traders mostly did not expect this year.

Kalshi’s largest crypto event settles on Bitcoin’s price at 12:00 a.m. ET on January 1, 2027, splitting the outcome into $5,000 buckets. On 20 September 2026, with BTC near $80,800, the market’s favourites were $75,000–$80,000 at 14.9% and $80,000–$85,000 at 13.9% — a year that ends roughly where it stood.