Timeline

In March 2021 the FLO Blockchain was rebranded to the Public Index Network - PIN

2013 📌

• Jun 17th: FLO released by SkyAngel with no pre-mine and no ICO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.0

• Jul 9th: Florincoin is the 61st coin added to Cryptsy, the first major altcoin exchange

• Sep 9th: Created the first block explorer, florinexchange.com/explorer, an open source explorer which is later replaced with https://florincoin.info

• Nov 27th: Coordinated with Skyangel on a hard-fork (required update) to increase the transaction comment size to 528 bytes https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg3731680#msg3731680

• Dec 10th: Started work on new website

• Dec 16th: Songs of Love, a charity for children based in NYC, beings accepting FLO donations to make customized songs for children in need

2014 📌

• Feb 1st: Created the FLO twitter account https://twitter.com/floblockchain (Originally @Official_Florin)

• Feb 1st: Created a website, Aterna Love, to store valentine's day messages in the blockchain. Those messages still exist today

• Feb 12th: Promoted FLO at the bitcoin center in NYC, with interview by Naomi Brockwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeYJID7Ewg

• Mar 2nd: Launched new florincoin.org website

• Mar 20th: Florincoin subreddit created https://reddit.com/r/floblockchain (originally /r/florincoin)

• Apr 9th: Presentation about Florincoin at the 1st Cryptocurrency Convention at the scholastic auditorium in NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giUL0Wiaz1M

• Apr 12th: skyangel releases Florin v0.6.5.13, a hard fork at block 426000, causing FLO to start adjusting difficulty every block https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg6191701#msg6191701

• Jun 21st: skyangel releases Florin v0.8.7.2, up to date with the latest Litecoin codebase https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg7440510#msg7440510

• Jun 22nd: bitcoinist.net article: exclusive Q&A with Joseph Fiscella http://bitcoinist.com/exclusive-qa-with-joseph-fiscella-florincoin-and-decentralized-applications/

• Sep 20th: Alexandria team meets in San Diego to work on the project as a team for the first time

• Oct 4th: Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas conference with the Alexandria Booth

2015 📌

• Jan 1st: FLO and Alexandria mentioned in a chapter about blockchain applications in Melanie Swan's book Blockchain: A Blueprint for a New Economy http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037040.do

• Mar 3rd: Released the first golang SDK for Florincoin, foundation, on github:

  • https://github.com/metacoin/foundation

  • https://github.com/metacoin/flojson

• Mar 11th: FLO is open for trading on Bittrex

• Mar 11th: FLO is open for trading on Poloniex

• Apr 17th: Alexandria 0.4 walkthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_u-ndscZjY

• Jun 10th: n-o-d-e.net interview with Alexandria https://n-o-d-e.net/alexandria.html

• Jun 25th: Alexandria historian is born and begins recording historic data on the blockchain

• Jun 29th: VICE article about Alexandria released: Could Cyberwar Cause a Library of Alexandria Event? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3p4p/could-cyberwar-cause-a-library-of-alexandria-event

• Aug 5th: LA times article about Blockchain Technology Group / Alexandria http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cutting-edge-blockchain-20150809-story.html

• Sep 24th: CoinTelegraph article about Alexandria https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-decentralized-media

• Dec 9th: Alexandria v0.5.1 alpha demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcuj_xILct0

• Dec 16th: Alexandria booth at Inside Bitcoins San Diego https://i.imgur.com/zZWi31F.jpg

2016 📌

• Mar 25th: FLO 0.10.4.0 released by Bitspill and the Alexandria team, as well as a pool mining historian blocks https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg14314984#msg14314984

• Apr 8th: FLO used to store Libertarian Party votes in blockchain https://www.coindesk.com/libertarian-party-texas-logs-votes-presidential-electors-blockchain/

• May 3rd: Alexandria meetup in NYC (video URL missing)

• Jun 19th: FLO 0.10.4.4 recommended update to latest Litecoin codebase

• Nov 27: Alexandria presentation at DAppHack Berlin 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqkmK9aTXs

2017 📌

• May 15th: FLO meetup in NYC, Telegram channel created https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.1560

• May 25th: FLO/Alexandria presentation lived streamed from BitDevs NYC: https://twitter.com/FLOblockchain/status/867614281868726273

• July 12th: Introducing Alexandria and the Open Index Protocol https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@m3ta/introducing-alexandria-and-the-open-index-protocol

• July 28th: Amy's blog post about the Alexandria team's visit to San Diego https://medium.com/@amyellajames/build-faster-51712d0ed51d

• Aug 20th: Valentin Jesse creates a FLO touchbar app for the 2017 MacBookPro https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg21047455#msg21047455

• Nov 29th: New logo and new website concept released and revealed to community in the rebranding initiative https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg25431477#msg25431477

• Dec 22nd: New website launched: https://flo.cash

• Dec 22nd: Flotorizer launched at flotorizer.net, Medium article written by Davi Ortega describing the creation of a FLO blockchain dApp as a non-programmer https://bit.ly/2NNEX1b

• Dec 24th: FLO Community Update https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@m3ta/flo-community-update-december-2017

• Dec 31st: SharedSecret.net, the first blockchain-based implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm, is live (again created by Davi Ortega)

2018 📌

• Jan 13th: Live-streaming FLO dev on twitch.tv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbk8FrbF7k

• Jan 18th: FLO python SDK released https://github.com/metacoin/flo-python-sdk

• Jan 18th: FLO added to brainwalletX https://github.com/brainwalletX/brainwalletX.github.io/pull/5/files

• Jan 18th: FLO C# SDK released https://github.com/adreno-abhi/Flo-CSharp-SDK

• Feb 23th: FLO partners with YBF Ventures http://ybfventures.com/worlds-first-web-3-0-hub-ybf-mesh/

• Mar 20th: FLO releases version 0.15 with segwit support, up-to-date with current Bitcoin and Litecoin codebases: https://github.com/floblockchain/flo/releases

• May 1st: The Jensen Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has announced a new initiative that uses blockchain technology to store the ETDB https://bit.ly/2NTDSoC

• May 1st: SPV wallet floj is open-sourced by Alexandria and Medici teams https://github.com/floj-org/floj

• May 20th: FLO is now ready for cross-chain dapps with the Blocknet Protocol! https://blocknet.co/

• June 29th: FLO summit 2018 at the @alexandria office in San Diego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3J-Sevac8

• July 15th: TheCoin.pw has recently opened a new cryptocurrency exchange and is trading FLO at trade.thecoin.pw

• July 17th: FLO summit 2018 held in San Diego https://twitter.com/FLOblockchain/status/1018858384534179842

• July 26th: Website updated with dapps dashboard https://twitter.com/flo_development/status/1022534376226213890

• July 27th: Instant exchange @ChangeNow_io has added FLO to its platform. $FLO is now available for exchange with $BTC, $USD, $EUR and 150 other cryptocurrencies at http://www.changenow.io

• July 29th: OpenBazaar adds FLO to its decentralized marketplace: https://openbazaar.org/

• Aug 7th: Now you can buy $FLO without additional fees, fast and secure at http://BestRate.org

• Aug 13th: Vivek Teega wrote a technical piece on how to use a javascript library to sign and verify messages with FLO https://bit.ly/2wNQ9Vc

• Aug 1st: Decentralized Web Summit @decentralweb - Devon James, Amy James, Chris Chrysostom, and Davi Ortega present how they use the FLO blockchain to build dApps with OIP https://bit.ly/2MVM1wD

• Aug 15th: 336pi launches the "SkyPiCast - FLO Blockchain Sessions and Hands On App Development" initiative at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo_BRiUPA3GwMKpPYQJhir5pMKRciSm81

• Sep 4th: FLO was added to the @BitTabApp desktop app! FLO can now be tracked on the desktop with a Windows application providing alerts and a sticky note feature https://i.imgur.com/AMRV3Hv.jpg

• Sep 14th: 51% attack and the proposed solution https://medium.com/floblockchain/flo-team-response-to-51-attack-8c9ef683d7ba

• Oct 8th: New FLO update to combat 51% attacks released! Please upgrade your clients as soon as possible https://github.com/floblockchain/flo/releases

• Oct 19th: The FLO team is happy to be part of the investFeed community! https://www.investfeed.com/flo/overview/

• Oct 24th: The FLO website now has a roadmap section - let us know what else you'd like to see added into the FLO ecosystem! https://www.flo.cash/roadmap.html

• Oct 25th: ETDB-Caltech showcases a blockchain-based distributed public database for electron tomography built with the help of the FLO Blockchain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/453662v1

• Oct 29th: Amy James presents Open Index Protocol at 2018 Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin, Texas https://youtu.be/eIwT8y9K_5c

• Nov 21th: FLO is now in the @bituniverse_org link program! Stay up-to-date with FLO news using the BitUniverse app https://t.co/C9HwhArALX

• Dec 10th: Looking FLOward to 2019 https://medium.com/@flo.cash/looking-floward-to-2019-f30906a1ae50

• Dec 20th: MLG (Overstock subsidiary) signed a memorandum of understanding with Teton County, Wyoming, to digitize property titles. www.coindesk.com/wyoming-county-moves-to-put-land-records-on-blockchain

• Dec 20th: FLO is now listed on the BitRabbit exchange https://bitrabbit.com/markets/flo_btc

2019 📌

• Jan 3rd: FLO Foundation established as a Ltd. in Hong Kong, for the purposes of non-profit fundraising for dev. of community sponsored software and apps on the FLO blockchain. www.flo.foundation

• Jan 7th: FLO Foundation memo regarding initiative rollover https://medium.com/@flo.cash/flo-foundation-memo-to-the-community-6ea4baff40ef

• Jan 8th: Tokenview lists FLO! Now you can check the latest block info and data analysis of FLO Click for details: http://flo.tokenview.com

• Jan 9th: FLO block mining reward halving took place, decreasing the coin reward from 12.5 FLO to 6.25 FLO. Check http://floblockhalving.com/ for more information

• Jan 9th: FLO is now listed on @Tokokcom https://www.tokok.com/market?symbol=FLO_BTC

• Jan 9th: FLO is now listed on Mxshine https://www.mxshine.com/exchange?symbol=FLO_BTC

• Jan 13th: Announcing OIP-Express: Create a FLO webapp in seconds using this dead-simple javascript @nodejs library https://github.com/floblockchain/oip-express

• Jan 14th: World's first @FLOblockchain @GooglePlay #App A simple app to let you experience #blockchain #FLOCard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.flocard

• Jan 14th: The @theJensenLab @caltech and @alexandria got the top 2018 blockchain paper & research teams award for https://t.co/RGNJ8HGmlM

• Jan 19th: Twitter bot scanning the FLO blockchain for interesting floData and notable blocks, such as halving blocks, OIP records, artifacts with media etc https://twitter.com/flodatabot

• Jan 23rd: FLO is now listed on FreiExchange https://freiexchange.com/market/FLO/BTC

• Apr 15th: Davi R. Ortega, et al. publish "ETDB-Caltech: A blockchain-based distributed public database for electron tomography" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0215531

• Mar 12th: Alexandria enters into strategic partnership with PUBLISH, Inc. https://link.medium.com/WJmOBBMrJ0

• Jun 10th: FLO Blockchain and Opacity Storage partner to promote Blockchain, Privacy-centric Communication Applications https://link.medium.com/e7zJEasejZ

• Jul 17th: Medici Land Governance writes more than 185,000 county property records to the FLO Blockchain via its Teton County Blockchain Pilot https://link.medium.com/2qlScnQ5VY

• Jul 24th: FLO is now listed on Vertbase https://www.vertbase.com/

• Aug 21st: FLO is now listed on changeangel https://changeangel.io/

• Sep 5th: FLO is now on the POX Mobile Wallet: https://twitter.com/WalletPox/status/1161168362384138243

• Sep 16th: The FLO Foundation announces Trezor support via https://wallet.chaintek.net/

• Oct 25th: JRichard, Davi Ortega, and Martin Adams publish GNU Privacy Guard and Flotorizer: A Match Made in Cryptography | https://medium.com/in-the-flo/gnu-privacy-guard-and-flotorizer-a-match-made-in-cryptography-2e8774adcf30

• Nov 12th: FLO is now listed on abra.com

• Nov 13th: In The FLO publishes State of the FLO | https://medium.com/in-the-flo/state-of-the-flo-d18e29d8573d