History of Bitcoin 2014
1 January 2014 Poland announced in its 2014 budget a 23% tax on Bitcoin mining activity.
2 January 2014 Zynga was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets.
12 January 2014 Mastering Bitcoin book released by Andreas Antopolous.
15 January 2014 The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino accepted Btc.The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec
18 January 2014 Dash launched as Xcoin,later named Darkcoin. Ethereum launched.
29 January 2014 Vera&John became the first licensed casino to accept Btc.
1 February 2014 Raoul Pal co-founded financial media platform Real Vision. Neo launched
4 February 2014 Naomi Brockwell released "Bitcoin Hearing Song"
7 February 2014 Apple banned Bitcoin app.
7 February 2014 1 BTC=703.56 USD.DDOS attack on Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and BTC-e.
17 February 2014 1 BTC=621.5 USD
21 February 2014 Gavin Andresen appealed for commercial Btc companies, to give more back.
24 February 2014 1 BTC=545.32 USD Mt. Gox exchange closed. It was hacked by Alexander Vinnik, which caused the loss of 800000 BTC and led the company to bankruptcy.
2 March 2014 Flexcoin was hacked. Loss=896 BTC
4 March 2014 Poloniex was hacked. Loss=97 BTC.Poloniex insolvent.
6 March 2014 A bad sensational journalist from Newsweek claimed Dorian Nakamoto was Satoshi Nakamoto. Dorian Nakamoto denied it. 1 BTC=658.7 USD
13 March 2014 Warren Buffett called bitcoin a "mirage"
16 March 2014 1 BTC=630.7 USD
19 March 2014 Bitcoin core 0.9 was released.
19 March 2014 USA IRS declared that BTC should be taxed as property.
21 march 2014 Fake PGP Keys for maintainer Gavin Andresen was found. MtGox found 200000 Bitcoins in a forgotten wallet
4 April 2014 Jeff Garzik bitcoin ted talk
8 April 2014 Bitcoin core 0.9.1 released. Jameson Lopp released The Multifaceted Nature of Bitcoin
8 April 2014 Gavin Andresen left his position as Lead dev, Wladmir van der Laan took over.
10 April 2014 Chinese exchanges accounts were frozen by China. 1 BTC=360.84 USD
15 April 2014 Sydney was home to Australia’s first Bitcoin ATM inside a mall in the city center
18 April 2014 Monero launched.Living on Bitcoin movie was released.
20 April 2014 1 BTC=497.32 USD
23 April 2014 Jeff Garzik announced a project to launch bitcoin nodes
May 2014 Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors: Peter Vessens, Gavin Andresen, Bobby Lee, Micky Malka, Jon Matonis, Brock Pierce, and Elizabeth Ploshay.
10 May 2014 The Federal Election Commission accepted political donations in Bitcoin
28 May 2014 Nitrous and Savaged hacked into early btc adopter Roger Ver's hotmail account and demanded 37 btc to prevent private information from being published online.The hacker apparently backed off after Ver put a 37 bitcoin bounty out.
29 May 2014 Swatting attack on Hal Finney,Santa Barbara.
1 June 2014 Network exceeded 100 petahash/sec.
13 June 2014 Mining pool Ghash.IO reached 51%
16 June 2014 Bitcoin core 0.9.2 was released.
17 July 2014 New York DFS proposed Bitlicense 1 BTC= 622.22 USD
18 June 2014 BitPay new sponsor of St. Petersburg Bowl under a 2year deal, renamed the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. Bitcoin would be accepted for ticket and concession sales at the game as part of the sponsorship, and the sponsorship itself was also paid for using Bitcoin.
18 June 2014 29656 BTC auctioned by US Marshals. Purchased by Tim Draper.
19 June 2014 Bitcoin core 0.9.2.1 was released.
27 June 2014 Draper bought approximately 30000 Btc, price 19 million USD.
4 july 2014 Jeff Garzik Ted talk - Bitcoin, the organism
14 July 2014 Mintpal hack,stolen hot wallet loss=1.8 mio USD.
15 July 2014 Filecoin launched
18 July 2014 DELL and Newegg accepted BTC.
20 July 2014 Faircoin launched
24 July 2014 Auroracoin launched
27 July 2014 1 BTC= 590.95 USD
31 July 2014 Stellar launched
29 August 2014 Hal Finney died.
1 September 2014 TeraExchange, approved by CFTC to list an otc swap product based on the price of bitcoin. First time U.S. regulatos approved a bitcoin financial product
8 September 2014 Satoshi Nakamoto’s GMX email was hacked
23 September 2014 Draper predicted that 1 Btc would reach 10000 dollars in 3 years.
27 September 2014 Bitcoin core 0.9.3 was released.
28 September 2014, In a Simpsons episode 1 from season 26 intro, Jimbo appeared on a billboard with the speech balloon "Send me your lunch money online!"
6 October 2014 A trader placed nearly 30000 BTC for sale on Bitstamp at a limit price of 300 USD per BTC(9 million USD)
10 October 2014 A Bitcoin movie The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin was released by Nicholas Mross. It featured Dan Mross, Pittsburgh coder and Gavin Andresen,Mike Caldwell,Charlie Shrem,Mark Karpeles.
11 October 2014 Alex Akselrod proposed a bi-directional payment channel.
13 October 2014 Peter Todd suggested Near-zero fee transactions with hub-and-spoke micro payments
21 October 2014 Gavin Andresen gave an AMA on Reddit.
30 October 2014 Jon Matonis resigned as Director of Bitcoin Foundation. Patrick Murck took over.
20 November 2014 Mozilla accepted btc
5 December 2014 Sergio Demian Lerner became security auditor funded by Bitcoin Foundation
11 December 2014 Microsoft began accepting BTC
26 December 2014 ESPN sponsor of Bitcoin Bowl
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