Timeline
Take a Trip Down Memory Lane
A list of all important events in the Pirate history.
The Idea
A question gets asked in the #ask-jl777 channel in the Komodo Discord, which started the discussion.
#pirate
Komodo dedicates a special channel named #pirate to the Pirate community in their official Discord server.
First OTC Transaction
Grewalsatinder and SHossain perform the first OTC transaction. SHossain sells 40k ARRR for 50 KMD to grewalsatinder.
Domain Name
The domain name pirate.black gets bought by grewalsatinder, which is still the main domain to this day.
First Public Mining Pool
Webworker01 creates the first public Pirate mining pool (piratepool.io).
Unhappy Community
Since grewalsatinder was on holiday, he did not update the Bitcointalk forum thread with all the new updates and happenings on PIRATE project. This led to some arguments and people wanting to restart the chain. To that point, many community members had already been mining PIRATE for about a week, hence why jl777 proposed a giveaway of 250,000 PIRATE, which totaled to around 10% total circulating supply at that date/time.
Supply Change
Since a hardfork was planned for Pirate (Read dPoW), jl777 also suggested changes to increase the block reward halving time for miners, which would incentivize more miners to join the PIRATE blockchain network securing it with more block mining hash rate and also a change in supply to 200 million.
dPoW
SHossain announces that "Notarization of private chain worked!", which was previously not the case (The tests were done on a seperate chain with the same params as Pirate called TXSCLPRT). The chain forks the next day and dPoW gets integrated. On top of that, the halving time increased by 5 and this change increased the total supply amount of the PIRATE blockchain to approximately 200 million.
250k ARRR Airdrop/Giveaway
The community members managed this PIRATE Giveaway process and grewalsatinder freely gave 250,000 PIRATE to 29 people on 25th September 2018 who provided their z addresses, each getting 8333.33333333 PIRATE tokens (Related to the events that took place on the 4th of September).
Ticker Symbol - ARRR
jl777c proposes the ticker symbol "ARRR", which sticks and is now used as an official ticker.
First Official Logo
The logo contest winners are announced and Pirate gets its first official batch of logos.
Discord Tip Bot
Discord tip bot is released and FishyGuts tries to execute the command "!arrrtip squall 500", which breaks the bot.
1st Exchange Listing
DigitalPrice.io lists Pirate to become the very first exchange that supports z-address deposits and withdrawals.
CoinPaprika
CoinPaprika lists Pirate and becomes the first coin tracking website to list ARRR.
Sapling Activation
Sapling gets activated at block 152795. Users have till February 15th 2019 to migrate their funds from zc (Sprout) address to a zs (Sapling) address.
First z-Commerce Transaction
First ever Pirate z-commerce transaction takes place after PirateChainCoins (Rebranding later to PhysicalCryptoCoins.com) accepts Pirate Chain as a form of payment.
2nd Exchange Listing
CryptoBridge lists Pirate and becomes the 2nd ever exchange to list z-addresses.
Sapling
Pirate becomes the "first sapling only integration in crypto" (FishyGuts). Fund Migration ends.
WhatToMine
Pirate gets listed on WhatToMine, which marks the instance of the first fully private mineable coin to be listed on WhatToMine.
3rd and 4th Exchange Listing
Citex and Escodex list Pirate to become the 3rd and 4th exchanges with z-address support.
5th Exchange Listing
Graviex lists Pirate to become the 5th exchange with z-address support.
6th Exchange Listing
TradeOgre lists Pirate to become the 6th exchange with z-address support.
1st Halving
Pirate block reward reduces from 256 ARRR/block to 128 ARRR/block with the first halving.
8th Exchange Listing
Altilly lists Pirate and becomes the 8th exchange to support z-addresses.
Twitter Bot
Twitter bot @oldbucaneer starts sending out ARRR as a reward for interactions with the @PirateChain Twitter account.
CryptoBridge Scandal
A CryptoBridge Exchange accounting bug led to the “counterfeiting” of up to 1.8 million ARRR, almost 2% of the total supply at the time.
Howey Letter
Pirate receives an official coin opinion letter for the USA to meet regulatory standards.
Mobile Companion App
MrLynch sends some ARRR + a memo to KOSIUS using an app that is running natively on a smartphone. This marks the first ever mobile Pirate transaction.
Pirates Week Festival of the Cayman Islands
A few members from the Pirate team attend Cayman Pirates Week.
Turtle Network Partnership
Pirate partners up with Turtle Network to work on Point of Sale System.
12th Exchange Listing
CoinEx lists Pirate and hosts a trading competition for 20k ARRR.
Sentinel Partnership
Pirate partners up with Sentinel to work on their dVPN for Pirate OS.
AltsBit Hack
AltsBit (formerly known as DigitalPrice), the first exchange to list Pirate, gets hacked. Out of 9.619.754 ARRR, 3.924.082 got stolen.
BPSAA
Pirate, Sentinel, Ether-1 and Turtle Network form the Blockchain Privacy, Security & Adoption Alliance.
14th Exchange Listing
Bitcoin.com Exchange lists Pirate and hosts a 15k ARRR trading competition.
2nd Halving
Pirate block reward reduces from 128 ARRR/block to 64 ARRR/block with the second halving.
Subatomic Swaps
The first ever, 100% private, Subatomic Swap is made between Pirate and Verus by SHossain.
Android Mobile Wallet
The worlds first Z to Z-only Mobile Wallet is released for Android devices.
3rd Halving
Pirate block reward reduces from 64 ARRR/block to 32 ARRR/block with the third halving.
ASMR Atomic Swaps
Grewal Satinder (with the help of MerosCrypto, CryptoForge & VecDequer) completes the first flawless Atomic Swap using the ASMR method.
Light Audit
The Pirate Chain team has commissioned a 3rd-party light code audit (QA Testing & Security Review) from Cyber Unit Technologies that have previously worked with Cisco, Elrond & FTX.
4th Halving
Pirate block reward reduces from 32 ARRR/block to 16 ARRR/block with the fourth halving.
wARRR
Wrapped version of Pirated named "wARRR" is launched on Binance Smart Chain.
Wallet Audit
The Pirate Chain team has commissioned a 3rd-party code audit for Treasure Chest - Full Node Wallet from Jean-Philippe Aumasson who is a world-renowned expert in cryptography, co-founder of Teserakt, and head of security of Taurus Group. JP holds a Ph.D. from EPFL (2009) and has worked for many years in applied cryptography, security architecture, and cybersecurity. JP wrote the acclaimed book Serious Cryptography (No Starch Press, 2017) and has designed widely used algorithms such as BLAKE2 and SipHash. He has performed numerous security assessments for leading blockchain and cryptocurrency organizations. He has spoken at conferences such as Black Hat, DEFCON, RSAC, CCC, and Infiltrate, about applied cryptography, quantum computing, and platform security.
iOS Mobile Wallet
The iOS Mobile Wallet, developed by the Meshbits Limited & Pirate Wallet team, gets officially released on the App Store
1M Fully Shieleded Tx
The Pirate blockchain hits 1,000,000 fully shieled p2p transactions.
5th Halving
Pirate block reward reduces from 16 ARRR/block to 8 ARRR/block with the fifth halving.
