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

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2013

  • Jun 17th: FLO released by SkyAngel with no pre-mine and no ICO

  • 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

  • Nov 27th: Coordinated with Skyangel on a hard-fork (required update) to increase the transaction comment size to 528 bytes

  • 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 (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

  • Mar 2nd: Launched new florincoin.org website

  • Mar 20th: Florincoin subreddit created (originally /r/florincoin)

  • Apr 9th: Presentation about Florincoin at the 1st Cryptocurrency Convention at the scholastic auditorium in NYC

  • Apr 12th: skyangel releases Florin v0.6.5.13, a hard fork at block 426000, causing FLO to start adjusting difficulty every block

  • Jun 21st: skyangel releases Florin v0.8.7.2, up to date with the latest Litecoin codebase

  • Jun 22nd: bitcoinist.net article: exclusive Q&A with Joseph Fiscella

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

Apr 17th: Alexandria 0.4 walkthrough video:

Jun 10th: n-o-d-e.net interview with Alexandria

Jun 29th: VICE article about Alexandria released: Could Cyberwar Cause a Library of Alexandria Event?

Aug 5th: LA times article about Blockchain Technology Group / Alexandria

Sep 24th: CoinTelegraph article about Alexandria

Dec 9th: Alexandria v0.5.1 alpha demo

Dec 16th: Alexandria booth at Inside Bitcoins San Diego

2016

Mar 25th: FLO 0.10.4.0 released by Bitspill and the Alexandria team, as well as a pool mining historian blocks

Apr 8th: FLO used to store Libertarian Party votes in blockchain

Nov 27: Alexandria presentation at DAppHack Berlin 2016

2017

May 15th: FLO meetup in NYC, Telegram channel created

May 25th: FLO/Alexandria presentation lived streamed from BitDevs NYC:

July 12th: Introducing Alexandria and the Open Index Protocol

July 28th: Amy's blog post about the Alexandria team's visit to San Diego

Aug 20th: Valentin Jesse creates a FLO touchbar app for the 2017 MacBookPro

Nov 29th: New logo and new website concept released and revealed to community in the rebranding initiative

Dec 22nd: New website launched:

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

Dec 24th: FLO Community Update

2018

Jan 13th: Live-streaming FLO dev on twitch.tv

Jan 18th: FLO python SDK released

Jan 18th: FLO added to brainwalletX

Jan 18th: FLO C# SDK released

Feb 23th: FLO partners with YBF Ventures

Mar 20th: FLO releases version 0.15 with segwit support, up-to-date with current Bitcoin and Litecoin codebases:

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

May 1st: SPV wallet floj is open-sourced by Alexandria and Medici teams

May 20th: FLO is now ready for cross-chain dapps with the Blocknet Protocol!

June 29th: FLO summit 2018 at the @alexandria office in San Diego

July 17th: FLO summit 2018 held in San Diego

July 26th: Website updated with dapps dashboard

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

July 29th: OpenBazaar adds FLO to its decentralized marketplace:

Aug 7th: Now you can buy $FLO without additional fees, fast and secure at

Aug 13th: Vivek Teega wrote a technical piece on how to use a javascript library to sign and verify messages with FLO

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

Aug 15th: 336pi launches the "SkyPiCast - FLO Blockchain Sessions and Hands On App Development" initiative at

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

Sep 14th: 51% attack and the proposed solution

Oct 8th: New FLO update to combat 51% attacks released! Please upgrade your clients as soon as possible

Oct 19th: The FLO team is happy to be part of the investFeed community!

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!

Oct 25th: ETDB-Caltech showcases a blockchain-based distributed public database for electron tomography built with the help of the FLO Blockchain

Oct 29th: Amy James presents Open Index Protocol at 2018 Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin, Texas

Nov 21th: FLO is now in the @bituniverse_org link program! Stay up-to-date with FLO news using the BitUniverse app

Dec 10th: Looking FLOward to 2019

Dec 20th: FLO is now listed on the BitRabbit exchange

2019

Jan 7th: FLO Foundation memo regarding initiative rollover

Jan 8th: Tokenview lists FLO! Now you can check the latest block info and data analysis of FLO Click for details:

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

Jan 9th: FLO is now listed on @Tokokcom

Jan 9th: FLO is now listed on Mxshine

Jan 13th: Announcing OIP-Express: Create a FLO webapp in seconds using this dead-simple javascript @nodejs library

Jan 14th: World's first @FLOblockchain @GooglePlay #App A simple app to let you experience #blockchain #FLOCard

Jan 14th: The @theJensenLab @caltech and @alexandria got the top 2018 blockchain paper & research teams award for

Jan 19th: Twitter bot scanning the FLO blockchain for interesting floData and notable blocks, such as halving blocks, OIP records, artifacts with media etc

Jan 23rd: FLO is now listed on FreiExchange

Apr 15th: Davi R. Ortega, et al. publish "ETDB-Caltech: A blockchain-based distributed public database for electron tomography"

Mar 12th: Alexandria enters into strategic partnership with PUBLISH, Inc.

Jun 10th: FLO Blockchain and Opacity Storage partner to promote Blockchain, Privacy-centric Communication Applications

Jul 17th: Medici Land Governance writes more than 185,000 county property records to the FLO Blockchain via its Teton County Blockchain Pilot

Jul 24th: FLO is now listed on Vertbase

Aug 21st: FLO is now listed on changeangel

Sep 5th: FLO is now on the POX Mobile Wallet:

Sep 16th: The FLO Foundation announces Trezor support via

Oct 25th: JRichard, Davi Ortega, and Martin Adams publish GNU Privacy Guard and Flotorizer: A Match Made in Cryptography |

Nov 13th: In The FLO publishes State of the FLO |

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