This is a repo for documenting the Decred timeline, with dates and descriptions of noteworthy events.
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Date (yyyy-mm-dd): Event. Description (significance)
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- btcsuite release
- MC2 paper published
- Decred network launch
- airdrop completed
- launch of stakepools
- first GUI release (Paymetheus)
- first Decrediton release
- release of hard fork voting mechanism
- block size increase on testnet
- first consensus vote
- release of dcrtime
- release of atomic swap tools
- release of SPV wallets
- release of politeia
- first proposals funded via politeia
2013-04-07 Memcoin2 (MC2) whitepaper announced by tacotime. - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169204.0
2013-05-01 btcd Bitcoin full node written in Go announced by Conformal Systems. - https://blog.conformal.com/btcd-a-bitcoind-alternative-written-in-go/
2015-11-30 "Bitcoin’s biggest challenges" published by Jake Yocom-Piatt. - https://blog.companyzero.com/2015/11/bitcoins-biggest-challenges/
2015-12-15 Decred announced on bitcointalk. - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.0
2016-01-25 Airdrop vetting finalized. - https://forum.decred.org/threads/airdrop-rundown.313/
2016-02-08 Decred mainnet launched. - https://explorer.dcrdata.org/block/298e5cc3d985bfe7f81dc135f360abe089edd4396b86d2de66b0cef42b21d980
2016-02-21 First PoS votes are included in block 4096. - https://explorer.dcrdata.org/block/00000000000013722f8e5a8af9cf55492e9237e77d29da98695e65fd13033625
2016-03-23 Decred RFP to incentivize the creation of 10 stakepools. - https://forum.decred.org/threads/rfp-6-setup-and-operate-10-stake-pools.1361/
2016-07-25 First release of Paymetheus Windows GUI wallet. -
2016-12-07 zkc open-sourced by Company 0. - https://blog.decred.org/2016/12/07/zkc-Secure-Communications/
2016-12-26 First release of Decrediton GUI wallet for Linux/OSX. - https://forum.decred.org/threads/dd-20-v0-7-0-12-26-16.4702/#post-23300
2017-06-14 dcrtime announced. - https://blog.decred.org/2017/06/14/Dcrtime/
2017-07-09 First hard fork vote in the history of cryptocurrency to change Decred's stake difficulty algorithm. - https://blog.decred.org/2017/04/03/A-New-Ticket-Price-Algorithm/
2017-07-09 On-chain signaling vote to begin work on Lightning Network support.
2017-09-19 First cross-chain atomic swap between Decred and Litecoin. - https://blog.decred.org/2017/09/20/On-Chain-Atomic-Swaps/
2017-10-25 Politeia is announced. - https://blog.decred.org/2017/10/25/Politeia/
2018-05-12 Placeholder publishes "Decred Investment Thesis" - https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2018/5/12/decred-investment-thesis
2018-06-05 DEX proposal is published. - https://blog.decred.org/2018/06/05/A-New-Kind-of-DEX/
2018-09-21 Initial SPV release for dcrwallet. - https://github.com/decred/decred-binaries/releases/tag/v1.3.0
2018-10-15 Politeia goes live on mainnet. - https://blog.decred.org/2018/10/15/Politeia-in-Production/
2018-11-05 First Decred corporate contractor (Ditto PR) hired through a Politeia vote. - https://proposals.decred.org/proposals/27f87171d98b7923a1bd2bee6affed929fa2d2a6e178b5c80a9971a92a5c7f50