This is an attempt by Bob Summerwill (along with Ethereum Foundation People) at building up some canonical history of the Ethereum Project and the Ethereum Foundation.
See also the partial public histories in:
- Cut and Try – Building a Dream, written by Taylor Gerring in February 2016
- History of Ethereum, written by the community for Homestead in March 2016
- A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol, written by Vitalik Buterin in September 2017
Timeline 2013
- Earliest Messages between Vitalik and Gav – 19th Dec 2013
- Tweet by Vitalik: “The earliest emails from @gavofyork reaching out to me in Dec 2013. Thanks a lot for Gav’s crucial contributions to ethereum!”
- Tweet by Gav: “Thanks to @VitalikButerin for the same – I could never have built #ethereum without you :)”
- Tweet by Peter: “Ah yes, thank you @gavofyork for single handedly building #Ethereum! We – the other 30+ programmers – really enjoyed watching you work!”
- In Gav’s Epicenter interview, he named Jonathan James Harrison AKA “Jonny Bitcoin” as the individual who pointed out Ethereum to him. He had met Johnny through Amir Taaki: Epicenter Episode 259
Timeline 2014
- Who were the Founders of Ethereum?
(Old photo of ethereum.org website shows a selection of the early people)
- Introducing Ethereum, 23rd Jan 2014
- North American Bitcoin Conference, Miami, 25th and 26th January 2014
- YouTube Video
- Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), a star is born – North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami (Jan 2014)
Beach house in Miami in February, where first face-to-face development happened - 31st January 2014
(The Ethereum team in their Miami house rented by Anthony Di Iorio for the 2014 Bitcoin conference. Top (left to right): Dino Mark, Yanislav Malahov, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony ‘Texture’ D’Onofrio, Steve Dakh, Wendell Davis, Jonathan Mohan, Joseph Lubin, Louis Parker. Bottom (left to right): Gavin Wood, Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Di Iorio, Taylor Gerring, Jason Colby, Kyle Kurbegovich)
(this image is from Taylor’s twitter thread, with caption and names taken from Why Polkadot is The Next Big Mover This Bull Cycle)
- Charles Hoskinson – Why I Joined Ethereum?, 21st April 2014
- Ethereum Booth at the Bitcoin Expo 2014, 30th April 2014
- Crypto Hackathon – Bitcoin Expo 2014!, 2nd May 2014
- Ethereum Video Background loop for Meetup groups and presentations (Richard Stott and Ian Meikle), 18th April 2014
- Some people didn’t make the conference, but did make the beach house.
- Who was at each?
- The upcoming crypto-singularity – Coinscrum (Stephan Tual), 10th March 2014
- Ethereum – Your Turn (Charles Hoskinson voiceover), 12th March 2014
- Duncan Rawlinson, 9th April 2014 (something just before the Expo?)
- Bitcoin Expo 2014 Toronto – 11th to 13th April 2014
- What is Ethereum? (Stephan Tual, CCO), 4th June 2014
- BitVote: time based voting ÐApp on Ethereum, Aaron Bale, 13th June 2014
- On Abstraction, Vitalik Buterin, 5th July 2014
- Towards a 12 second Block Time, Vitalik Buterin, 11th July 2014
- Vitalik Buterin explains Ethereum, 29th July 2014
- State of Ethereum: August Edition, Vitalik Buterin, 27th August 2014
- ÐΞVcon-0 conference in Berlin
- Ethereum ÐΞVcon-0 – Gavin: Welcome! Our mission: ÐApps, 24th Nov 2014
- ÐΞVcon-0 Recap, 12th Dec 2014
- Gavin Wood – Allegality – Systems Which Cannot Care, 10th Dec 2014
Timeline 2015
- Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V, 2nd March 2015
- The Ethereum Launch Process, Vinay Gupta, 3rd March 2015
- Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection, Vitalik, 10th April 2015
- Godfather of Ethereum (Yanislav Georgiev Malahov), 25th May 2015
- Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director, 30th July 2015
- New Ethereum Structure Executive Director and Board Members Signal a Reboot for Ethereum, Bitcoin Publication, 2nd Aug 2015
- A Message from Stephan Tual, 3rd Sep 2015
- So Ethereum is Released, Gavin Wood, 12th Dec 2015
Timeline 2016
- The Last Post, Gavin Wood, 11th Jan 2016
- Cut and Try: building a dream (Taylor Gerring), 9th Feb 2016
- Ethereum Foundation page, 4th March 2016
- Can Ethereum Restore Online Freedom & Transform the Internet? Reason TV, 18th March 2016
- Extensive timeline for the DAO fork:
- Why I’ve Resigned as a Curator of the DAO, 13th May 2016
- The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum, 16th June 2016
- Analysis of the DAO exploit, Phil Daian, 18th June 2016
- Gavin Wood presentation hack of the DAO smart contract and options Ethereum community, Dutch Blockchain Conference, 20th June 2016
- Gavin Wood on how $60M hack of DAO happened and what to do next, Dutch Blockchain Conference, 21st June 2016
- YouTube Video
- “Was that because you wanted to make a lot of money?” (Timestamp)
- Understanding The DAO Attack, David Siegel, 25th June 2016
- TBP79 – Infrastructure for a Seven Billion World, 13th August 2016
- YouTube Video
- “We knew that Stephan Tual was a bad actor. Same applies to Charles Hoskinson. All kinds of legends about that guy. Jesus Christ.” (Timestamp)
Timeline 2017
- Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion, Vitalik Buterin, 14th March 2017
- The Ether Thief, Bloomberg Markets, Matthew Leising, 13th June 2017
- SEC Issues Investigative Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities, SEC, 25th July 2017
- A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol, Vitalik Buterin, 15th September 2017
- I remember Cardano now… Red flags everywhere., 30th Nov 2017
- Visions of Ether, 16th Nov 2018