# Timeline **2013** :pushpin: * 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** :pushpin: * 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 **2015** :pushpin: * Jan 1st: FLO and Alexandria mentioned in a chapter about blockchain applications in Melanie Swan's book Blockchain: A Blueprint for a New Economy * 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 * Apr 17th: Alexandria 0.4 walkthrough video: * Jun 10th: n-o-d-e.net interview with Alexandria * 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? * 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** :pushpin: * 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 * 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 **2017** :pushpin: * 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 * Dec 31st: SharedSecret.net, the first blockchain-based implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm, is live (again created by Davi Ortega) **2018** :pushpin: * 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 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 * 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: 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](http://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-county-moves-to-put-land-records-on-blockchain) * Dec 20th: FLO is now listed on the BitRabbit exchange **2019** :pushpin: * 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](http://www.flo.foundation) * 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 12th: FLO is now listed on abra.com * Nov 13th: In The FLO publishes State of the FLO | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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