A Collection of Interesting Stories That Have Happened In The Crypto Space

The other day I made this post asking what some of the most interesting stories were to happen over the last 14 or so years that crypto has existed. I received a lot of really good responses, so thank you to everyone that commented. In this post, I wanted to collect a lot of the stories that were recommended to me as well as share some more that I have found.

If you have any that aren't on this list please let me know about them!

Bitcoin

The Story of Satoshi Nakamoto and how he/she/they have managed to stay anonymous all of these years. It's really impressive to have accomplished what they did and remain anonymous.

The First ever post About Bitcoin on Reddit. It was downvoted and the u/MisterLiberty hasn't posted in a long time.

El Salvador Adoption Bitcoin as Legal Tender.

The Value overflow incident. An exploit was found in Bitcoins code (back in 2010) that allowed someone to create 184 Billion additional Bitcoin.

Man mines Bitcoin in 2009 and then throws away the hard drive. The value of his hard drive is now estimated to be well over $100 million.

The story of the Bitcoin Pizza. The first-ever documented physical good traded for Bitcoin. The 2 pizzas cost 10,000 Bitcoin worth over $180 Million today.

The First Bitcoin Faucet. It would give you 5 Bitcoin for just solving a Captcha.

The Blocksize war. One of the most complex and interesting stories in Bitcoin's history.

All of the stories surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto's possible identity. I don't think we will ever actually know who they are, but it's fun to speculate.

Ethereum

The story of how Ethereum got started. Along with the drama related to Charles Hoskinson. I was recommended the book "The Infinite Machine" by Camila Russo by u/erpetao to learn more about this story. So I will pass that recommendation along.

The Merge. Which just happened a few weeks ago as of writing this. Also, Just everything that was previously under the Ethereum 2.0 is pretty interesting.

The ETH DAO hack.

Scams/Failures

The story of Bitconnect. Which is probably the most famous crypto-related scam to date. It also spawned this legendary meme.

The Squid Token from October 2021. It took the world by storm and crashed to nothing in just a couple of weeks. The rug pull was captured live as seen in this video.

The Crash of LUNA and everything surrounding that mess. Including the more recent development of Do Kwon now being wanted worldwide.

The failure of Celsius, Voyager, and 3AC. That really helped mark the start of the current bear market.

Safemoon. A very interesting rise and fall during 2021-2022.

Mt. Gox. The original Bitcoin exchange that had a miraculous downfall.

Onecoin.

Dogecoin Related Stories

The Rise of Dogecoin along with all the other dogecoins.

The Dogecoin "millionaire" who made a fortune on dogecoin and never sold.

Elon Musk Becoming the "Dogefather". Including the time he was on SNL and mentioned Dogecoin on live TV.

Other

Moons moving to Mainnet.

The Slaying of the Bear-Whale.

There are probably hundreds of other stories that I didn't put on this list. So if there are any that you think others should know about let us know!