Nov 28, 2017: Enter CryptoKitties - the blockchain game that let you breed and trade digital cats. It became so popular it congested Ethereum. Yes, in 2017 crypto's biggest craze was basically Tamagotchi on the blockchain.#nfts #ethereumhistory

This media moment showed early public fascination with AI – a mix of awe and fear that still echoes today. It was the 1970 equivalent of going viral, and it helped cement the term “electronic person” in the public’s imagination long before C-3PO or R2-D2 made it to the big screen

Nov 20, 1970: LIFE magazine’s new issue hits newsstands featuring Shakey the robot – dubbed “the first electronic person” – and warns of “the frightening and fascinating reality” of machines that think America meets an AI robot and collectively shivers/exclaims “Whoa!” #AIhistory

Nov 17, 2023: In a plot twist worthy of a tech soap opera, OpenAI’s board suddenly fires CEO Sam Altman. The AI community goes into meltdown. Employees revolt, investors panic, Twitter explodes. Within days, Altman is courted by Microsoft and then boomerangs back to OpenAI in a d

Nov 15, 2018: The Bitcoin Cash civil war. Rival crypto warlords Craig Wright and Roger Ver split BCH into two feuding chains. They threw hash power at each other in a battle so absurd it tanked the whole crypto market. #bitcoinjesus #Faketoshi #bitcoin

Only the HEX/Pulse crew could turn chasing bad money with good money into a full-time profession. It’s like watching people proudly fail basic financial literacy in real time. Olympic-level stupidity.

Nov 11, 2022: FTX implodes in a blaze of scandal. Sam Bankman-Fried's $32B exchange collapsed into bankruptcy after it turned out customer funds were used as play money. FTX went from white knight to cautionary tale fast.

Nov 6, 2014: Amazon launches Alexa — the AI that made us believe voice assistants were the future… until we actually used one. “Sorry, I didn’t get that” has been her catchphrase ever since. 📢🤖

Nov 6, 2017: A rookie mistake locked up $150M in Ethereum. A user accidentally triggered a flaw in Parity's multi-sig wallet, permanently freezing 600k+ ETH. 'Smart' contracts, meet human error.

Nov 5, 2019: OpenAI finally releases the full GPT-2 model (1.5 billion parameters) to the public. Why “finally”? Because earlier in 2019 they dubbed it “too dangerous to release.” On this day, the monster was unleashed – and the world, thankfully, did not end. (No, it didn’t writ

The whitepaper outlined how to send money without banks. • Introduced the blockchain: a public, timestamped ledger to solve double-spending. Nerdy idea, revolutionary implications.

Oct 31, 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto's Halloween surprise - the Bitcoin whitepaper. No candy, just 9 pages of math and code proposing a new digital cash. A treat for cypherpunks; a trick for the banking system." Titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Oct 27, 2017: Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to “Sophia,” a humanoid robot. The first robot to receive citizenship anywhere. The move, a PR stunt at a tech conference, left many scratching their heads (Can she vote? Does she need a passport?). It did succeed in getting the world

Oct 25, 2018: A painting generated by AI (“Portrait of Edmond de Belamy”) sells for $432,500 at Christie’s – 43 times its high estimate. The portrait, created by a GAN model, features a blurry-looking gentleman and an even blurrier signature (a segment of the algorithm’s formula)

Oct 25, 2019: President Xi Jinping says nice things about blockchain, and crypto loses its mind. Bitcoin soared ~40% in two days after Xi's speech. Who knew decentralization could be pumped by centralized authority?

Oct 19, 1981: Japan announces the ambitious Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project. The plan: spend a fortune to build AI-driven “epoch-making” computers for the 1990s. The West panics – this is an AI arms race! – and pours money into its own projects. (Spoiler: the project

AlphaGo Zero’s mastery came from starting tabula rasa and playing millions of games against itself. This was a crazy stat: a superhuman Go player emerged overnight (practically) without studying any human games.

Oct 18, 2017: DeepMind unveils AlphaGo Zero, an AI that learned Go with no human data In just 3 days of self-play, it surpassed the version that beat Lee Sedol – ultimately defeating its predecessor 100–0. Talk about an AI glow-up! #AIhistory

" "• USDT, the biggest dollar-pegged coin, suddenly broke peg - sliding to $0.85 on some exchanges. So much for stability! • Panic time: if a top stablecoin can wobble, what's safe? Many rushed to swap USDT into actual dollars or other cryptos.

Oct 15, 2018: A 'stablecoin' goes unstable. Tether (USDT) - supposed to be $1 - briefly plunged to ~$0.85. Chaos ensued as traders fled USDT for Bitcoin. Stability? Schmobility. It was a stablecoin stress test in real time. #stablecoins