Timeline
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David Chaum’s Paper on blind signatures published.
1983
$900
2008
Bitcoin white paper published 672
$800
$700
2009
First Bitcoin mined 673
$600
• First stablecoin, BitUSD, launched • Tether (USDT) launched 674
2014
$500
$400
• BitUSD lost 1:1 value with USD 675 • Circle (USDC) launched • STASIS (EURS) launched
2018
$300
$200
$100
2020
• StraitsX (XSGD) launched • Facebook/Meta launched Libra
$0
2021
JPY Coin (JPYC) launched
Case Studies Bahamas (p.155) and El Salvador (p. 156)
2022
Facebook’s Diem (Libra) sold assets 676
• cNGN launched • GENIUS Act passed in the U.S.
2025
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Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index ranks 151 countries on various indexes including on-chain cyrpto value by centralized services, on-chain retail crypto value by centralized services, on-chain cyrpto value by DeFi protocols, and on-chain retail crypto value by DeFi protocols and weighted by GDP per capita on a PPP adjusted basis. See Chainal-ysis 2024 Geography of Crypto Report for more information.
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