A History of HEX

Kevin Phua
4 min readJan 27, 2021

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”— George Santayana

“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” — Mark Twain

This is a document of the significant events that have occurred in HEX — the best performing cryptocurrency asset of 2020. HEX has come a long way since

This is a developing article that will be updated as events occur in the HEX ecosystem.

Thanks to HEX Obituaries for the article links.

Suggestions for entries are welcome via Twitter.

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Pre Launch

17 November 2018
Richard Heart introduces BitcoinHEX at CryptoFinance Norway

17 November 2019
Richard Heart calls out Craig Wright as the fake Satoshi

27 November 2019
Richard Heart roasts Tone Vays at Blockshow Singapore

1 December 2019
HEX snapshot occurred at first Bitcoin block mined after 00:00:00 UTC for HEX free claim for Bitcoin holders

Post Launch

3 December 2019
HEX launches. AA lobby starts. 21,015 ETH transformed on the first day of the AA lobby.

6 December 2019
Bitcoin maximalist Peter McCormack tries to hijack Richard Heart’s stream, chickens out when challenged to a debate

7 December 2019
First Hexologist daily show

Goldman Sats: Under A HEX

12 December 2019
Crypto News: Is HEX a Scam or Just Something that Looks Really, Really Like a Scam?

19 December 2019
News BTC: Why This Developer of the Controversial HEX Cryptocurrency — Accused of Scam — Left

20 December 2019
U.Today: HEX Project is an Obvious Scam: IOTA Founder. Crypto Community Seconds

5 January 2020
The Daily Chain: The Rise and Fall of Hex — the quickest scam of the decade
CCN: Crypto Investors’ Ethereum Secretly Used to Prop up HEX ‘Scam Token’

6 January 2020
HEX reaches all-time low of $0.00002904

7 January 2020
Crypto Slate: HEX origin address emptied out, almost $7 million withdrawn

10 January 2020
Coingeek: HEX Token Scam claims dog Richard Heart’s scheme

14 January 2020
Day 43 of the AA lobby with the highest HEX to ETH transform ratio at 1,813,313 HEX/ETH

Wish I was there

12 February 2020
Hex Tool Developer Removes App Over Token Manipulation Concerns

April 2020
HEX becomes Uniswap’s top liquidity provider with $12.5 Million in onchain liquidity

20 April 2020
First Discourse Syndicate stream

May 2020
HEX becomes Uniswap’s top trading pair with almost $90 Million in volume

14 May 2020
HEX reaches first major all-time high of $0.00678

16 May 2020
48,060 BTC claimed — Biggest amount of HEX claimed in a day

18 May 2020
Uniswap v2 launched

24 May 2020
Worst interview with Richard Heart, ever

Who wears safety goggles for an interview?

25 May 2020
Hexologist Bitcoin Halvening 24 hour stream

17 September 2020
Uniswap launches UNI token, airdrops over 2.5 Million UNI tokens to HEX wallets

17 October 2020
Staker App released

28 October 2020
HEX reaches #10 crypto market cap on Nomics

2 November 2020
Pre-BPD pump. HEX prices hits 2nd ATH of $0.01494

18 November 2020
HEX price drops to $0.00679 on market selloff on to concerns about reduced BPD payouts due to increased staking activity before BPD

Post BigPayDay

19 November 2020
Big Pay Day happens

12 December 2020
First Joe Hexotic stream

16 December 2020
Bitcoin breaks 2017 ATH to close at $21,365

31 December 2020
New Year’s Day pump. Price hits 3rd ATH of $0.0199 then immediately wicks down to $0.0111

6–9 January 2021
The 1st HEX Conference is held virtually on stream, featuring keynote speakers Kryptosparbuch, Hexologist, RG3 and Richard Heart.

1st HEX Conference Day 1
1st HEX Conference Day 2
1st HEX Conference Day 3
1st HEX Conference Day 4

24 January 2021
Ethereum breaks 2018 ATH to close at $1,393

26 January 2021
Staker 1.0 released with referral program

4 February 2021
Elon Musk tweets about a joke token, sending it to a high of $0.088 and $10 billion market cap

8 February 2021
Tesla buys $1.5 billion in BTC, planning to accept it as payment for Tesla cars. Bitcoin breaks through ATH.

12 March 2021
RH tweets about forking ETH to create a HEX blockchain

29 March 2021
RH names the Ethereum fork Pulse Chain

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Kevin Phua

iOS Developer. 3 x 70.3 Ironman. Crypto investor. Sat Chit Anada.