History of Bitcoin 2013
2 January 2013 BitPay Btc payment processing company, announced it had surpassed 10000 Bitcoin transactions for its merchants, with no cases of payment fraud reported.
Bitcoin meetups in the Bay Area began in January 2013, organized by Ryan Singer and Jared Kenna.
Pavol “Stick” Rusnák and Marek “Slush” Palatinus envisioned a small, single-purpose computer that would securely store users Btc private keys. In 2013, the two founded SatoshiLabs and created Trezor.
1 February 2013 Matthew Birkenshaw and Riley Alexander, began PizzaForCoins.com, a service that acted as a middleman to allow users to order pizza with BTC in exchange for a small BTC fee.
9 February 2013 Kim Dotcom announced that his cloud storage service, Mega, began accepting Bitcoin payments through bitvoucher.co
14 February, 2013 Reddit began accepting Bitcoin
17 February, 2013 Bitmarket.eu was hacked again. Loss 620 BTC
19 February, 2013 Version 0.8 of the Bitcoin client was released. It featured Bloom Filtering and improved download speeds.
21 February 2013 Internet Archive began accepting BTC.
22 February, 2013 1 BTC = 30 USD
28 February 2013 With the first all-time high in 601 days, the MtGox exchange rate broke the June 8, 2011 peak of USD 31.91.
28 February 2013 Coinbase reported selling USD 1 million worth of btc in a single month, The Internet Archive announced that it was ready to accept BTC donations
8 March 2013 Bitcoin brokerage firm, BitInstant, acknowledged that a hack of its system resulted in the theft of nearly 999 BTC(12000 USD)
11 March 2013 Bitcoin core 0.8 was released.A significant glitch that involved 2 two different versions of the Bitcoin software forced a halt in transactions that results in a sharp sell-off and a 23 percent drop in value to 37 USD. Later that evening, the exchange rate recovered much of its value.
12 March 2013 A protocol rule that was previously undiscovered resulted in a hard fork of the 0.8.0 reference client.
17 March 2013 Pensacola homeless shelter, Sean’s Outpost, managed by Jason King, began accepting Btc donations.Let's Talk Bitcoin! was launched by Adam Levine with ifirst episode, and was later co-hosted by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy, PhD.
18 March 2013 FinCEN of the United States Department of the Treasury published its Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies,
18 March 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1
21 March 2013 1 BTC = 74.9 USD
28 March 2013 The total Bitcoin market cap passed 1 billion USD.
31 March 2013 1 BTC = 93 USD
1 April 2013 1 BTC surpassed 100 USD. A payment channel concept was described by Jeremy Spilman on the Bitcoin-development mailing list. Spilman had coded a proof of concept. Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss claimed they owned nearly 1% of all Bitcoin in existence at the time.
3 April 2013 Instawallet, a web-based wallet provider, was hacked, resulting in the theft of over 35,000 bitcoins which were valued at 129.9 USD per bitcoin at the time or nearly 4.6 million USD. As a result, Instawallet suspended operations.A Porsche in Texas was sold for 300 bitcoins at a 130 USD rate
10 April 2013 Bitcoin hit an all-time high of 266 USD up from only 13 USD the year before.
12 April 2013 Dan Kaminsky wrote "I tried hacking bitcoin but i failed"
20 April 2013 Bitcoin Crashes as Bitcoin Central was hacked, with hackers making away with “a few hundred” Bitcoins that the site’s owners agreed to pay back.
30 April 2013 Tradehill closed.
30 April 2013 BitInstant and Mt. Gox experienced processing delays due to insufficient capacity resulting in the bitcoin price fell from 266 to 76 before returning to 160 within 6 hours.
1 May 2013 BitInstant workforce: 16 employees when Winklevoss Capital invested 1.5 million USD in the company. The funding was "meant to allow the company to further scale up its staff and product.",Online gaming company ESEA was busted for secretly using customer computers to mine Bitcoins.
2 May 2013 The first Bitcoin ATM in the world was established in San Diego, California. Actual founder of BitcoinATM told Jeff Berwick to disassociate himself from BitcoinATM.Berwick had lied about being the founder of BitcoinATM.
9 May 2013 Fred Wilson invested 5 million USD in Coinbase.
14 May 2013 US Department of Homeland Security seized over USD 2.9 million from a Dwolla account that belonged to a subsidiary of MtGox because it allegedly “failed to register as a ‘money transmitting business’ in accordance with 18 U.S. Code 1960.”
16 May 2013 Jeff Garzik joined Bitpay.
17 May 2013 Eff resumed accepting bitcoin.BitInstant processed approximately 30 % of the money going into and out of bitcoin
18 May 2013 PrimeDice.com launched as an online casino that accepted Bitcoin
29 May 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2
1 June 2013 BitInstant announced integration with Jumio. Jumio's Netverify software allowed BitInstant to verify customers' identity.
6 June 2013 Fake Mt. Gox pages aimed to infect Bitcoin Users
10 June 2013 Just married couple Austin and Beccy Craig launched a Kick-starter campaign to fund a full-length documentary called Life on Bitcoin. The film was released in 2014
23 June 2013 DEA listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881. First time ever police had seized bitcoin.
24 june 2013 SEC alleged 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' was a Ponzi Scheme
26 June 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3
26 June 2013 Jon Matonis wrote a letter claiming that Bitcoin foundation was a money transference.
1 July 2013 Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in USA.
3 July 2013 The Bitcoin Foundation issued a response to California bureaucracy cease and desist warning. Mastercoin(later Omni) first Ico launched,raised 500000 USD in BTC
July 2013 Matt Corallo finished bitcoinj after Spilman and Mike Hearn had began the development of the concept.
17 July 2013 Eric Vorhees sold SatoshiDice to an unknown buyer. Price:126315 BTC Shareholders of SatoshiDice was not happy.
30 July 2013 Thailand banned btc trading. A project in Kenya linking bitcoin with M-Pesa.
6 August 2013 In response to a claim by Trendon Shavers, founder of Texas-based Bitcoin Savings & Trust, that Bitcoins are not real money in an attempt to sidestep SEC charges of misappropriation of funds, federal Magistrate Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas ruled that “Bitcoin is a currency or form of money, and investors wishing to invest in BTC provided an investment of money.”
9 August 2013 A Bitcoin ticker arrived on the Bloomberg terminal so that Bloomberg employees could track the value of BTC under XBT Currency.
11 August 2013 The Bitcoin Foundation announced that a bug in a pseudorandom number generator within the Android operating system had been exploited to steal from wallets generated by Android apps; fixes were provided 13 August 2013
12 August 2013 22 Bitcoin companies(BitInstant & Bitpay) were subpoenaed - NYSDFS issued a subpoena to 22 companies and investors that were involved with digital currencies to investigate the possibility that Bitcoins were used for illegal activities.
20 August 2013 The German Federal Ministry of Finance announces that it recognizes Bitcoin as a form of private money, or a “unit of account,” and allows its use in commercial and private sales. Bitcoins become tax exempt when held for longer than one year.
21 August 2013 Reddit user, hardleft121 (Greg), posted for support for Sean’s Outpost, The campaign raised more than 32 BTC valued at 4000 USD.
28 August 2013 RoboCoin began accepting pre orders for an 20,000 USD ATM that allowed users to trade BTC for other currencies.
3 September 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.4
9 September 2013 Jason King, founder of Sean’s Outpost, a Bitcoin-funded homeless shelter in Pensacola, announced plans to build a nine-acre sanctuary in Florida for the homeless that was dubbed Satoshi Forest, to be funded by Bitcoin donations.
10 September 2013 MtGox demanded the return of US$5 million from Coinlab in a lawsuit, claiming that the funds belonged to MtGox customers.
13 September 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.5
14 September 2013 PrimeDice.com announced that it generated more than 15 mio USD of turnover during its first 3 months of operation.
25 September 2013 Barry Silbert founded Grayscale Bitcoin Trust or BGTC.
1 October 2013, Inputs.io, an Australian BTC wallet provider was hacked with a loss of 4100 BTC, worth over $1 million at time of theft. The service was run by the operator TradeFortress. Coinchat, the associated bitcoin chat room, had been taken over by a new dodgy admin.
2 October 2013 The Bitcoin price dropped from 139 USD to 109.71 in less than 3 hours.
Bitcointalk.org suffered a hack that exposed users' personal messages, e-mails, and password data. Visitors wee greeted by cartoon images of missiles that appear over Tchaikovsky's classical music opus 1812 Overture.
14 October 2013 China’s largest search engine Baidu accepted Bitcoin.
26 October 2013 1 BTC=182.18 USD. Hong-Kong based bitcoin trading platform owned by Global Bond Limited (GBL) vanished with 30 million yuan (5 million USD) from 500 investors
31 October 2013 BitMarket.eu closed and one final message directed to ww.bitalo.com
1 November 2013 Ittay Eyal and Emin Gun Sirer co-authored the Selfish Mining paper
6 November 2013 The price of Bitcoin reached 269 USD
7 November 2013 4100 BTC stolen from inputs.io
10 November 2013 A Subway restaurant in Allentown, Pa began accepting Bitcoin,
17 November 2013 Bitcoin price hit landmark figure 503.1 USD on Mt. Gox.
18 November 2013 Us Senate discussed legitimacy and challenges of cryptocurrencies.
19 November 2013 BTC price record 1242 USD. BTC transactions surpassed Western Union.
21 November 2013 University of Nicosia became first university to accept Bitcoin for tuition.
22 November 2013 Virgin Galactic began accepting Bitcoin for space travel
23 November 2013 Patrick Murck testified before a United States Senate committee
27 November 2013 Shopify officially integrated BTC as a payment option for its 70000+ merchants.
27 November 2013 Casascius shut down by Fincen(Treasury Department)
29 November 2013 Bitcoin Black Friday first annual event to highlight deals from merchants and businesses accepting Bitcoin.
30 November 2013 BTC China had the largest bitcoin trading exchange by trade volume
1 December 2013 Overstock.com announced to accept bitcoin in the second half of 2014
2 December 2013 96000 Bitcoins were stolen/exit scammed by Tomas Jiříkovský, Admin of Sheep Marketplace.
4 December 2013 Alan Greenspan called Bitcoin a bubble.
5 December 2013 China’s central bank stopped financial institutions from handling Bitcoin transactions, causing a price drop of more than 20 % to below $1,000.Buying goods with any virtual currency had been illegal in China since 2009.
5 December 2013 German police arrested a group of bitcoin mining hackers, who had hacked computer networks to mine for 700000 Euro BTC.
6 December 2013 Baidu stopped accepting bitcoins after Chinese ban.Dogecoin launched.
8 December 2013 The Simpsons episode 7, S25, Krusty said that he lost money in the BTC market.
9 December 2013 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.6
10 december 2013 Apple removed the ability to send Btc from the iOS app.
17 December 2013 Tor accepted Bitcoin donations. China's Central Bank banned Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin crashed to nearly US$500 after the banning from accepting deposits in yuan.
18 December 2013 Dyslexic drunk bitcoiner made a post why "i am hodling", the concept hodl was born.
23 December 2013 FBI became owner of biggest BTC wallet after seizing Silkroad.
28 December 2013 Paul Krugman tweeted "Bitcoin is evil"
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